Fujifilm competition update wednesday 26th march  

Originally for this shoot I had planned to take black and white film images of people walking around Burton town just getting on with everyday life.

When it came to taking the images I changed my mind last minute as i felt taking pictures of people just walking around was a bit too original and had been done too many times before so I wanted to do something a little different.

In the end i decided to look up some photographers on the internet i'd been given the link to by my dad and i came across some great location images of dangerous and dirty slums visited by photographers who had taken a real interest in the way that people live in those conditions. This inspired me to try and recreate some of the scenarios i had seen in some of the images using the dark room in college as my location.

I set up a tripod in the dark room with the camera on top to help keep the camera steady when taking my images. I set the shutter speed to 300 and kept the shutter open for 5 seconds for each image to make sure i captured every image properly.

I used Molly and Kirsty as my models for these images and got them to sit down on the floor in the dark room and used bits of rubbish and molly's coat as props to help create the scene. I also turned off the light while taking these images and used the torch on my phone as a spot light directing it at molly and kirsty, again this was to help set the scene and make my images look a little 'doom and gloom' like those taken by the photographers that visited the slums.

I really enjoyed doing this shoot as i thought it was a really interesting idea that not man people had attempted to do before, it is also very different from anything i've ever shot on film before.