More research into the article

To help us understand the article better we needed to do some research into the beliefs of the people in the article.

Paganism is a word used to refer to various religions and religious beliefs from across the world. It is a term which, from a Western perspective, has modern connotations of spiritualist, animistic or shamanic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular.

I found another article from The Guardian website that gives a good insight into what paganism involves. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/30/religion.uk1

Test Photos

Light and dark experiments

I have done some test photographs to see how we will be able to create simular effects to the example photos below. To light the test photographs I used different lamps and torches to see what would work best. I found the best way to light the photographs was to use a spotlight lamp that you could bend so it shone where you wanted it to. I also found the photographs worked the best in rooms with dark coloured walls. This meant less light reflected and the parts of the photo i wanted to be in shadow were alot darker.

Photo

This was another photo I found on the picture this website that used light and dark really well.

Ideas

After reading the article we came up with a few ideas of how we could represent the article. I though we could focus on the fact that at spring equinox there was an equal amount of light and dark in the sky. I found some photos on the 'Picture This' website that used light and dark really effectively. They also gave the image of an equal amount of light and dark which would be a really good way to represent spring equinox.