Derivative Lite

For this photo assignment, we had to research a photographer and try to recreate some of their works. I chose Jim Brandenburg because i like his photography, which is mostly set in nature similar to that of central Wisconsin, where I live. 

This first picture is called wet rocks....

My rocks have more color throughout, which could be distracting, and there are more jagged edges in these rocks. Also, they are too close up...but it's hard to tell some of these things without the original pictures in front of you while you shoot.

In this Brandenburg photo, a deer was just recently killed by a hunter. He tried to capture the light and innocence left in the deer's eye, even after being brutally killed.

In the photo I tried to recreate, the deer was  killed by a car.....but it was definitely not recently! This deer had been on the side of the road for a while! So this isn't a very good demonstration of any life at all....maybe if I find some fresh road-kill I'll log back on and hopefully make this photo a little less grotesque.

This set of photos is my favorite. Brandenburg made a photo of a deer killed by a wolf, but to detract from the gruesome aspect of the picture, he wanted to focus on an evergreen branch to make the picture more about life than death. I tried to do the same thing...but it was hard to find a deer killed by a wolf...so I used road kill...a little less bloody, but the same basic idea.