Shoot 6 - Stafford Town Centre
Much like the Victoria parks shoot I decided that I should go and take photo's around Stafford Town centre as well, as I knew that I would be taking photo's of people in this area due to the amount of people which go there! I thought it would be a lot easier to get more photo's of people here than anywhere else!
Plan: I want to go around and take photo's of some populated areas in Stafford Town Centre and also take photo's of places where I thought I would take portraits in the future to help me along. Due to how well this plan worked in Victoria park, I thought I would continue on with it!
Plan: I want to go around and take photo's of some populated areas in Stafford Town Centre and also take photo's of places where I thought I would take portraits in the future to help me along. Due to how well this plan worked in Victoria park, I thought I would continue on with it!
Firstly, I took photo's of shop fronts. Many people enter and leave shops especially places such as cafe's and I thought if I were to take photo's in the early morning that a breakfast café would be perfect! I tried to take photo's of convenient places that people would go (along with time oriented places) and attempted to put myself in the position of the people who I envisioned of photographing.
Large, open streets are also great places to take photo's of, especially Crabbery street. It's an open area with shops all around and in this image alone we can see a music club and a shopping centre where many shoppers often go along with people who are looking after and running the stores. At certain times of the day such as when the music at Red Rum is about to start playing or ends and when multiple people are outside the shop are great times to find people as the area is heavily populated.
This is in the centre of the town, banks are universal places where people go, almost everyone has money in their bank and often need to visit places like this. I would never go into places and ask for portraits as I feel like that's invading their privacy and stepping over the line but many people leave banks and walk away, once they have walked away from the bank is most likely when I would approach them as going up to them as they are leaving might seem rude and eager, which is not how I want to come across.
Here are some street photo's I took, the first one is the main part of the town centre and as you can see, it is very packed and crowded with many people holding bags from their trips. I would rather not approach people with bags as they are most likely heavy and would be an inconvenience to them if I were to take their photo. If I were to take photo's of people in these places it would have to be someone who is standing still as most people in these areas are in a hurry/rush and would rather not be disturbed. Next to this photo is 2 other streets, quite quiet streets that are extensions of the first street. It's interesting to see that though the last 2 streets are so close to the 1st how unpopulated they are, even though their are shops down there.
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