For my inspiration this week, I decided to shoot a roll of film for my photography class. I know that this is something I had to do eventually anyway, but I made the decision to look for inspiration while doing it so I thought it would be a good thing to write about. What I did was drive all around Lewisburg and the surrounding areas with a friend of mine in the class looking for animals to take pictures of because it was a portrait project. Since we just learned how to take pictures, there weren’t super high expectations for our pictures, but I wanted to find ways to make it good, so I decided to look in nature for inspiration. I ended up realising that animals could make better subjects than humans when I stumbled upon a duck pond, and after that I was inspired to look for animals to take pictures of. My favorite one was of a horse we found looking out over his fence at the road. I thought that it had really beautiful eyes and I took a close up picture of his face focused on his eye, and I was able to create a beautiful shot that shows emotion and tells a story.
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