Deforestation

By: M McDaniel

What are the important objects in the image?

The colors are very distinct. The different shades of green make it easy to determine the trees from the grass. The spot with trees missing is dark brown and is also distinct.

The shapes of the forest of trees are shaped as lungs as a symbol of the devastation of deforestation.

What is the purpose of this image?

The purpose of this image is to show the comparison between damaged lungs and a forests that have been cut down. Without these trees, there is no breathing for us.

What message, point of view, and emotion does this image convey?

The message of this picture is saying that with a bad lung you cant breathe. The same goes for trees. When someone takes a part in deforestation, more and more lung cells are killed.

The point of view is directed to people that take part in deforestation.

Emotionally, this photo puts fear in viewers eyes of deforestation. We can't live without trees just like we couldn't live without lungs.

How might a wider angle have changed the message of the image?

If the angle was wider, you would have seen smaller trees around like in the photo.

A wider scale would have also taken away from the main idea of the “Bad lungs”

What is the logos of this photo?

There is no text in this photo, but the context in the picture tells us that we need to take a stand in deforestation.

What is the pathos in this photograph?

This picture represents the future danger of deforestation.

When someone cuts down many trees at a time, they are taking the risk of killing lung cells.

What is the ethos in this photograph?

When you neglect an ill person it is considered inhumane. Letting this happen to forests is soon to be considered inhumane.

This image encourages us to help the “Lungs of the Earth,” the forests.

If taken in the late evening, how would this picture change?

If taken in the night, the dark colors from the bare area on the right “lung” would blend in, in the dark.

The dark greens would also blend in with the night and the lung shapes wouldn't be as distinct as it is in broad daylight.

If the picture was zoomed in to the middle, half of its size, how would the message be changed?

In the picture, if it is zoomed in, it just looks like a patch of forests. The big picture is missed.

You can see in the bottom right corner that there is something wrong, but you don't get the full idea.

CreditsAnullo, Temesgenhttp “Lungs of America” ://temesgen-thomas.blogspot.com/2010/12/visual-rhetiric.html Dec. 7,2010 Jan. 22, 2012