Photoshoot 1:

I want this photoshoot to be of houses like how Todd Hido takes his night time urban photographs. Similar to his approach, there will not be any people in these photographs and the houses will be quiet. The houses will be detached with at least one set of lights on. Ideally I will be taking these photographs through fog too so that the light will look soft and distant. I want to take these at blue hour. Since detached houses will likely be further out from town, they should also be quieter and the buildings are more unique and picturesque. To take these images I will be trying out different shutter speeds but I expect to need a low shutter speed to compensate for the dark.

Photoshoot 2:

This photoshoot will set up like Raymond Meeks by following a person/s however instead of the woods this one will be through a building and how they interact with the bannisters, doors etc. I would like to try 2 approaches to lighting. The first will make use of natural light when its still daytime around windows and the second will use artificial lights through doorways to create a leading path. I will be taking these images in an older house with deep stairs and a basement. These pictures will be used for the narrative as they’re less abstract and much easier to identify. An idea I’ve had was using a really low shutter speed so that the person was more of a trail but this is something I was going to experiment with.

Photoshoot 3/4:

These photoshoots will be abstractions of objects/locations that can be linked to fears such as a spiders web or the nails holding a carpet. While the subject is the focus of these images, the lighting is just as important. I aim to create dramatic shadows over the subjects with varying light sources. I will be taking these images both in focus and out of focus. The out of focus ones will still be enough to see the subject but like Hiroshi Sugimoto’s architecture wont be crisp. I will also take some in focus image incase I need them later for an experiment.