Shoot 8 - Unpopulated Area In Stafford
I decided to do another shoot but in a different, less populated part of Stafford. The reason being because I wanted to take photo's of strangers but in a bit of a different and secluded area instead of being in the open and around many others and I thought that maybe the reason some of them were denying the photo's were because of the amount of people that were around them.
Plan: My plan for this shoot was to take photo's of unpopulated areas which I would like to, in the future, take photo's of people in. While in this shoot I did try to take photo's of strangers but because of how unpopulated it was with the few people I did ask I had no luck, but this will not discourage me and I will continue trying in this area.
Plan: My plan for this shoot was to take photo's of unpopulated areas which I would like to, in the future, take photo's of people in. While in this shoot I did try to take photo's of strangers but because of how unpopulated it was with the few people I did ask I had no luck, but this will not discourage me and I will continue trying in this area.
Here is one of the most open streets in this area, on the left and right you can see tall buildings which do have people inside but not a lot of people on the outside, unlike the town centre which has both. When in this area I walked past around 3 people who looked to all be in a hurry so I didn't want to disturb them.
Here was another street I walked down and I did ask the people in this image if they would mind having their portrait taken, which they said no to. A good amount of people came down this street while I was walking around taking photo's so I feel like this would be a good area to try and take portraits when I go here in the future.
This was the door to a council building which In did see some people walk into. I feel like if there is a meeting in session or something similar and it ends many people will exit the building, filling the narrow street with a few people who I could ask to take photo's of and I feel like that would be quite successful. I wont purposefully wait outside the building for people to leave but if there are people leaving as I walk past I may ask them for a photo once they get a bit further away from the building so it seems I'm not rushing them so they are more comfortable.
Here I took a photo of a nearby building that had lights on, meaning there were people inside. I can assume the bottom level is a shop as I have not yet saw a house in Stafford that was around an abundance shops and resteraunts.
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