Response to Elise Raffa

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my response in the style of Elise Raffa's work.

I love the composition I have been able to create with this piece of work, with the subjects being off centre. I used a shallow depth of field to get the two main subjects in focus and the background de-focused - but despite this, the back ground it still fairly focused which I think is good for the purpose of the image because it is about the setting of the image and what is going on.

I chose to respond to this image as I feel it is the one that most responds to my chosen theme of nursery rhymes as it relates to more than one. the first one being peter pumpkin- a tale of how a man held her wife hostage in a large pumpkin deep in the forest. and the other being that of Jack and Jill - a nursery rhyme about the many beheading conducted by Queen Mary during her reign.

I chose to edit the image and change it into black and white as I thought it gave the image a more emotive feel it it acts as an extra narrative to the story creating the sense of darkness and sinister.