Lab 4: Parson's Farm (Swine & Sheep)

Parson's Farm specialize in artificially bred pigs and sheep. These farm raised animals are fed with a special grain feed of protein, but the piglets gets their own food from their mother's teats. Piglets are very dominate they do not share the mother's teat with anyone and they will not drink from any other teat except their very own. Pigs are fierce animals to come across, their odor can do some damage to a person's nose. I was at the pig farm for quite some time and the smell was fowl enough to get me nauseated. The pigs are well cared for and all but the odor is just something that can't be treated.

These pictures were taken at the Hadley Barn, when the class was doing castrations *fun! I did not adjust the last 3 pictures below because I thought the images were good as they are so I'll talk about the camera angle. As for the 2 pictures above I had to do some editing. I found the background distracting because Serena's face is a little distracting and stealing some attention from Kayleigh, the one holding the piglet in the arm.



I wanted the audience to experience what I was feeling when the piglets were staring at me. I took this shot with the piglet's eye in mind. I did not have the eye positioned in the center of the photo because I was following the Rule of Thirds which is a rule to have a subject's eye lie in the intersecting points of this image. I am still a amateur in the art of photography but the point is to have the eye to be positioned near the point of intersection.


There was not any rules I was following for this one just put my camera in front of the pigs. I like how there is a wall on one side and on the other it's free, there's also a pig facing that direction as well. But mostly I like how the piglet just stares at at the looking of the photo.


The pigs are on one another, but it's basically the same angle as the picture above. Except I kept the light to contrast the dark. When you look at the picture from top to bottom the light exposure drops and gets darker at the bottom.