What am I photographing?
Incorporating the idea of experimentation, I wanted to show the items that the adolescents may use, but avoiding documentation of them using it. Some things I’m aiming to photograph are:
Alcoholic bottles and cans, which will show the obvious experimentation youth do with alcohol.
Drug paraphernalia and Pills. Adolescents can often be seen trying to achieve altered mind states as they are not aware of the full risks or have a sense of immortality. They often feel that the risks behind illegal drug use apply to everyone else but not to themselves. Rolled currency notes have connotations of being used for drug use and so I may incorporate this into the shoot.
Tobacco, Skins and Filters. Much of today’s youth are renowned for smoking and so I’ve considered showcasing the use of tobacco in my project. Additionally photographing smoking skins and filters will further develop this.
Vape devices. Vaping is a fairly new and inventive way to consume nicotine, first emerging in 2003 and becoming popularised around 2014. Because of this, the devices are highly applicable to the youth today. The development of nicotine-salts created new addictions in both smoking and non-smoking teens. Especially after the invention of flavoured Juuls. Vapes are no longer seen or used to cure nicotine addiction, but as a ‘healthier’ way to create new ones.
Where am I photographing this?
I plan to carry out this photo-shoot at home. In order to achieve the effect I want, I’m aiming to create a home-made studio.
By using black card to create an infinity curve, I will be able to achieve an ‘invisible background’, resulting in my props becoming the only visible part of the image, and therefore the main focus.
How am I photographing this?
Having set up the personal studio, I plan to use natural light to highlight the props. I planed to use the infinity curve I created below to photograph my objects. However, a lot of my objects are dark, so I am experimenting with white and coloured paper to see the different outcomes
Setting up the infinity curve beside a large window where natural light can flood through. 
using foil to reflect the light on the other side of the object.
Images:
Shoot: Black infinity curve
Edited images:
To edit these images, I used the editing software in both Lightroom and Photoshop. I started by editing the images in my catalog, decreasing the exposure where necessary and increasing the saturation of black in the photos. This allowed for an even black background, so that the objects would become isolated. For the images that still needed further work to reach this stage, I transferred them into photoshop and used both the pipette and the brush tool to get the desired background