25.1.21 - Glass Animals in The Snow

Yesterday, four inches of snow fell and I wanted find a way to incorporate this into the new project because it felt really magical and I worry that in the future we won't experience snow due to the warming climate, so I try to embrace it while it's here. I thought about what objects in my house I could arrange outside and chose my ornamental glass animals, then photographed them in different arrangements in the snow. I thought this idea would be suitable for the project theme because it takes household objects and re-locates them to an outdoor setting where they don't belong, or at least we wouldn't expect to find them there.

The pictures came out darker than I expected so I will be sure to check my camera settings next time - I think it was due to the camera trying to adjust to the brightness of the snow.

For the first set of images I took a random approach and just placed them how I wanted to.


I love the effect of the clear glass with the refracted light and delicate reflections



Flash off (above) vs. Flash on (below). I like the way the flash makes the glass and snow glisten but overall I think natural lighting is always nicer.



This is one of my favourite images because of the way the light is illuminating through the rabbit's ears and the animals look vivid and well lit. I placed my camera level with the ground to take it however I got too cold to spend much time doing this.





For the next images I grouped them by colour:







The fragility of the glass animals complements the snow really well and the clean whiteness helps bring out their different colours. It's a shame that the pictures weren't as bright as they appeared in the viewfinder but other than that I am happy with them. My next step is to create some drawings from the pictures, and I think fine-liner will be appropriate because of the delicate appearance of the objects, and I'd like to try watercolours too.

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