OK so the two images still don't work i like the first image  so from now on i will just stick to flash with no headlights each image will then be consistent. like Clive lanens images are.  this will hopefully bring the project together linking each image with the other.

this was an interesting day we had to park a little bit away from the animal  so the headlights did not hit the animal think this is the style I would like to go with regarding the photos. I don't think I will show the animal up close  its to graphic for some people. the blood dose create a crime screen feel that's something I cant change with in my image its just natural the landrover ran over the rat just moments after we found it.    
I love they sign i was worries the flash would bounce of the mettle but i was far enough away to miss it. The affect of the exposure flash combination is this almost tunnel affect getting darker towards the end of the image its something I am glad happens  its like the animal is moving in to darkness or darkness  moving in on the animal.  as I am looking at this image I can see 3 small light spots that is something I will need to remove before printing. 
the light gives the hedge a really interesting glow somthing i would like to replicate with in the rest of my images. the lighting is not as harsh as i was expecting it to be so from now on this is how evry shot will be taken.

last  night was very interesting i am becoming concerned that  my images look OK but do they work in a series do they all have the same feel. some of the images has a very shallow depth of field where as the other dose not i am undecided as to whether this matters or not i think i need an outside opinion.  both images are in focus which is good i got bex to stand next to the animal to take the first photo then i took it off AF this is some slight bluing in the  leaves because of the wind this is not a problem.  the exposures are 1.6 second ish on a full open aperture  This dose explain the DOF.  I think I prefer flash to long exposures because a flash gun has a harsher light. it lights   its surroundings but the light dims as we get further back in to the image creating an atmospheric quality. 

so form now on I will be trying to keep to the flash gun rather than the long exposure because the long exposures don't have the impact I would like my photos to have. i am also unsure of the headlights i think the light is to orange its something i have tried to correct in Photoshop but it dose need more work.

so this is the first image I have taken

The idea was to use the headlight to frame the animal, pin it to the ground.
using the headlights gives it this human intervention as a car had killed the animal the car  created by humans used by humans we where responsible  for its death. I feel that  is that obvious from
road and the broken nature of the body  I think the headlight may be to harsh.


the animal was in the centre giving it the main focus. I was worried that it would get lost  with in the image as the colour of the tarmac is similar to the colour of the rabbit 

so the first find was interesting it was a very flat rabbit.

there was some problems I didn't expect with tacking photos at night one being focusing the camera i couldn't tell if the camera was initially in focus i did want a soft fouct but im not sure if the outcome is what i had in mind the other being light i was getting shadows verywhere so we had to stand so we wherenot in the image or rather are shadows

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/roadkill-nation-theres-already-a-badger-cull-happening-on-britains-highways-8698457.html

Badgers have no natural predator, except possibly the motor car,” farming minister David Heath recently declared, as he bemoaned Britain’s rising badger population. Now the nation’s first-ever roadkill survey has confirmed his opinion that fast-moving vehicles are proving effective badger-culling machines.

so the government is using the growing population as a way of culling badgers I don't know how i feel about this they do spred tb so that's a problem and letting the cars do the work dose save money but at the same time would it not be more afective to sort out the problems of tb rather than just killing them. 

"The number of cars on the world's roads surpassed one billion last year, according to a study that has spurred debate on what the rapidly-growing car population will mean for the world's economy and environment."

The roadkill project is a response to what I see every day on the roads around my home in rural Perthshire. I have been gradually documenting some of the roadkill I come across on my travels, collecting the corpses from the road and bringing them back to the studio to study. They are laid down on the surfaces I have to hand when they come into the studio - usually pieces of cardboard or paper, sometimes a strip of material or an old sketchbook cover. I first draw the bodies several times and then paint them.

 As the decomposition process advances the form of the corpse changes, contracting and sinking. There is also an issue of odour of course, and all this means I must work quickly. The paintings are usually finished within three or fours days of the corpse being collected after which time I take the bodies into the deep woods and leave them out to nourish scavenging wildlife.

 Since beginning this project, the subject matter has expanded a little as non-roadkill bodies have come my way. Some of these are included here too.


The painting them selves are very simplistic often just the animal on a white background removing  the animal from the reality of life. Sometimes the white paper looks like something you would find at a butchers. i don't know whether or not  I like them the fact i can't find much to say  means something i think the fact they are removed from reality and in to the studio shows the interference of man with nature 

The number of vehicles in operation worldwide surpassed the 1 billion-unit mark in 2010 for the first time ever.

According to Ward’s research, which looked at government-reported registrations and historical vehicle-population trends, global registrations jumped from 980 million units in 2009 to 1.015 billion in 2010.

The figures reflect the approximate number of cars, light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses registered worldwide, but that does not include off-road, heavy-duty vehicles.

Vehicles in operation in 2010 equated roughly to a ratio of 1:6.75 vehicles to people among a world population of 6.9 billion, compared with 1:6.63 in 2009. But the distribution was not equal, even among the biggest markets.

In the U.S., the ratio was 1:1.3 among a population of almost 310 million – the highest vehicle-to-person ratio in the world. Italy was second with 1:1.45. France, Japan, and the U.K. followed, all of which fell in the 1:1.7 range.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/roadkill-connoisseur-arthur-boyt-says-2324305

• use for dead animals
• keeps them of the road
• the meet is free range so did live a natural life. unlike some of the animals we eat today
  
• sustainable
• cheap in times of resection 
• a skilled craftsman could use the skin to create a rug or scarf.

so all in all I don't like the idea of eating the animals but I can defiantly see the good aspects of eating road kill more than the bad its just something I am not ust to if i was bright up eating road kill such as badger I would be ok.

i do remeber when i ust to live with my gran and aunt we all lived in her big house it was nice one day my uncle mark and my dad came up to the back door with this very large buck uncle mark had found it on the side of the road it had just been hit by 4 cars infront my dad has know idea how mark got it in to the car it was so heavy the hole family spend the day butchering it up and that night we had venison loline. but venison is very expensive at a butchers and its somthing we eat all the time. but badger is a meat eater but if its not being wasted it dose make seance.






"Mr Boyt, 74, has eaten an incredible array of animals in his time, everything from mice to polecats - and even cats and dogs. As long as the animals were killed on the road accidentally and not deliberately, Mr Boyt sees them as fair game."

This is a practices photo i saw the dead rabbit and took the photo in the same way i would take the photos when we go out looking for death.

the idea being that the animal is not at first ovus to the viewer they will know what the project is about and will be looking for the animal much like bex and i would be at night.  i hope it makes people studdy the image a little bit more than the would normally. 

althoughg i don't know if i will be doing things just from above i think the idea of long shots makes sence with in the images.