Today’s Warm Up: Black & White Studio Portraits of Goats and Sheep

After viewing the following photos, answer the questions using complete sentences.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/majestic-black-and-white-studio-portraits-of-goats-and-sheep-by-kevin-horan/

Do you think these images demonstrate low key or high key lighting? What makes you think that? What was the photographer’s approach in creating this photo series? Did they treat the work with seriousness or with humor and or whimsy? What emotions do you get by looking at these photos? What lighting set up do you think was used in the creation of these images?

15 Replies to “Today’s Warm Up: Black & White Studio Portraits of Goats and Sheep”

  1. i think low key lighting, because the background is dark lighting so is the photos, his approach was to make dark photos with animals. they used seriousness. i get no emotions by looking at these photos. they probably used light lighting to get more of a darker image.

  2. I think these picture show high key lighting.
    by looking at his pictures they look high key.
    he approaches by making himself a part of the photo.
    the photos treat seriousness.
    my emotions are amazement.

  3. Lowkey lighting is demonstrated in the image, i think that because the whites arent bright and its calm. This photo was serious and when i look at it i feel the photo is so clear and focused on what it should be.

  4. the pictures demonstrate low key lighting and it helps make the structure of a goats head pop out. because there is so much detail in the goats bone structure, it helps make it appeal more to the eye and creates shadows. however they are very unusual portraits which can be weird and funny.

  5. These photos demonstrate low key lighting b/c the background is dark. I don’t get emotions when looking at these images.

  6. Do you think these images demonstrate low key or high key lighting? What makes you think that? What was the photographer’s approach in creating this photo series? Did they treat the work with seriousness or with humor and or whimsy? What emotions do you get by looking at these photos? What lighting set up do you think was used in the creation of these images?

    I think it is lowkey lighting. Becasue the dark lighting in the background so i think it is lowkey. His approach was to create photos with animals. Seriousness. I get sad emotions or no emotions. The lowkey lighting

  7. These photos demonstrate low-key lighting, because the lighting is only on the goats. His approach was photographing the goats so that only they would be lit up. I think he treated it with seriousness, I get a serious emotion from these pictures, be probably had lighting that only lit up the goats, with a black background.

  8. I think they demonstrate high key lighting. It makes me think that this person loves animals. There approach was animals. I think they treated the work with whimsy. I feel like this person really likes animals. I think the lighting set up was dark yet happy.

  9. lowkey lighting because the lighting is mainly on the goats, to me it seems they treated it mostly with humor, they make me feel curious on why they would do this.

  10. Do you think these images demonstrate low key or high key lighting?
    high key lighting
    What makes you think that? its really bright
    What was the photographer’s approach in creating this photo series?
    to show black and white
    Did they treat the work with seriousness or with humor and or whimsy? alittle of all
    What emotions do you get by looking at these photos?happiness
    What lighting set up do you think was used in the creation of these images?white back ground

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  11. These images demonstrate low key lighting. The overall photos are dark. The photographer wanted to take up close and personal portraits of goats because they are underappreciated. I love goats so I’m happy. They are serious photos of goats which makes them funny. Black and white was used for these photos.

  12. I think its low key lighting because its a subject in a dark room
    I don’t know the approach
    I think they treated it fairly serious.
    It was funny
    I think they used a big flash box thing in a dark room

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