INITIAL CONCEPTS The concept for this image was the same as the previous enlargement however this image is more intimate that the last one as it is a medium-close-up of the subject. Thus the audience may feel more connect to the subject.

COMPOSITION I considered the composition of this image thoroughly so that the audience would feel compassion for the subject. For instance, the subjects head it turned and is facing downwards which makes the subject look defeated and ashamed. I also wanted it too appear as if the subject is looking at the blood and bruises on her shoulders and wondering what 'she' did to deserve it. This relates highly to my theme of animal skins/fur and how skinning animals of their fur and skins has evolved into something that people are so nonchalant about.

ANGLE The angle for this image is again a 'point of view' angle which means that the audience are are able to empathize with the subject and the message that is being put across. The subjects face is also half turned away from the camera which again forces the audience to look to at the image closely to try to understated why the subject is not giving direct eye contact to the camera/viewer. As this shot is medium close-up I wanted the subjects face to be immaculate to draw a comparison between the surrealism of the subjects face and the message that I am trying to put across; the subject looks 'doll like' and not real just like how people choose to believe that nothing 'bad' really happens to the animals who are skinned.

IMPROVEMENTS Despite the fact that i like the composition of this image and the way that it is displayed to the audience i still believe that there are improvements that could have been made. For instance, i think that although the bars of the cage add to the effect of the image i still think that they almost get in the way of the subjects face and expression. As well as this the subjects top is also showing in the image which i think ruins the atmosphere slightly however there was not a lot i could do about that aspect of the image.

BLACK AND WHITE

This is an image which i edited alongside editing the original image; i did it as an experiment to see how the different colors of the original image would look in grey, black and white. I also wanted to see if changing the main colour scheme would change the message of the image slightly.

After I had edited the original image to make the final image i made a duplicate image and started to play around with the grey scale. After my first couple of contact sheets i began searching different artists to do with my theme and i

found a women called Gillian Lambert and she has inspired edit and she is also the artist that i am going to base my next set of contact sheets on.

I really like this edit simply because it, i believe, changes the message slightly and ironically makes the image look like more of a 'fashion' image. just by removing the red from the image almost makes the image seem meaningless. What i found from this experiment is that colour really bring my message to life and makes the audience more aware of the message that i am trying to display.

ORIGINAL IMAGE

I used the mask tool on Photoshop quite a lot for this image; I singled out the 'blood' on the subjects neck using the mask tool so that i could make the blood look more red and drastic, thus expressing my message more. I also used the mask to draw red lipstick on the subjects lips, which provided a contrast with the 'blood' on the subjects neck.

The 'eye drop' tool was another editing tool which i used for this image. Along with the pain brush this tool helped be make the subjects face look surreal and angelic. This is the tool i feel helped me most when trying to make my image more relative to my message; i have explained why this is in my latter annotation of the final version of this image.

This is the original image which is just slightly different form the final version. I have just edited some aspects of the image on Photoshop to make my image more relative to the message that i am trying to put across as well as my theme.