A Level Photography essay

For my Unit 3, I will be studying Wildlife photography. This topic greatly appeals to me and I find the concept very interesting. It links in well with my summer task and I would like to expand the focus by photographing other animals. The topic is very broad and I would like to produce an in depth study of it, however it could be quite hard to complete due to not having access to seeing many animals and so I must visit the zoo. Doing this could also have setbacks such as cages, high walls and whether the animals will actually be out and not hiding at the back or in huts. I would like to accomplish similar photographs to Nick Brandt who captures detail on South African animals very well. This topic would mostly mean using a shallow depth of field to try and concentrate on the subject matter (the animal) which helps make it stand out. To get interesting photographs I may have to have the animals doing something exciting which may be hard for me to capture if the animals are in the zoo. Therefore I seek to try and work around it by looking at events and feeding times at the zoo. I may also want to take photographs of different pets, which would require me to talk to friends or relatives to see if they have any pets which they wouldn’t mind me photographing. I have chosen this topic as it’s something that greatly interests me and I believe that if I am able to find everything I require, I could come out with some good results.
Nick Brandt was born in 1966 and raised in London, England, and studied Painting, and then Film at St. Martins School of Art. He focuses on the wildlife in East Africa and only captures photographs in Black and White. He started his photographic project in 2000, where he embarked on creating a trilogy of books to memorize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. These books consist of photographs of animals in dramatic landscapes. In 2010 he also set up the Big Life Foundation in response to the increase in poaching in Africa. I have