Personal: I chose this photograph because we as a species feel more emotion when it is children at the brunt end of something less than good, we are wired to feel saddened when a child is living in a work camp than an adult, even if they have the same circumstances we are much more likely to want to help the child or give the photo more thought. Even thow I cannot relate to the pore girls and their families with all their struggles. Historical: During the great depression the entire economy crashed sending people to lose there jobs and homes causing them to pack up everything they can carry and take along their family and hit the road in hopes for a job and a camp to stay at. Farms were destroyed by the dust bowls and droughts, and with no money left to fix it they were forced to travel and abandon their home. People would take any job they could find because even with very little you still have something to lose. Without money to pay for a house or land you lived in a work camp with only the most basic of tools if even that. Light: The lighting in the photo is the sun causing the children to become featureless and giving them an appearance of someone younger. The lighting is soft and natural from the setting or rising sun. The car and light sky provide a silhouette of the two girls. And the soft lighting from there side washes away their hair and sharp features giving them a flat almost two dimensional appearance. Composition: The photo doesn't seem to follow the rule of thirds or the golden rule. The photo was take from a slight right angle from the angle of the photographer, and the facial expressions of the two children with nothing but despair on her face brings an emotion into the photo, also the choice to take the photo of the sister with the crutches and bone tuberculosis provides a sense of urgency to help. The large tire next to the girl makes them seem shorter and younger because of the scale compared to their surroundings. Subject: The subjects of this photo are two sisters who are just two of six people in there family. The photo was taken somewhere in california on highway near Bakersfield. She shows in her photograph that the two girls are still struggling along with their family, because you can clearly see the tears in their clothing and unwashed face and body's. In the background you can see there car with little fuel left and no money in their pockets to pay for more gass. One of the older girls is walking with crutches and limp arms to support her because she has bone tuberculosis and the family has no money to help their children. They and their family are refugees from Oklahoma who are traveling with nothing left at a chance for a better life, with nothing left but a car out of gas and the clothing on there backs this is their last chance at a new life. In chemistry class we set up our classroom to be a dark room. We covered the door in tinfoil and put lights in vons bags and hung them from the ceiling to give us a safe lighting.
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