Task 2 - Historical Photoshoot Planning

On Tuesday 24th February 2015 I will carry out a photo shoot of old buildings around the Bradford area. For this photo shoot I will be photographing using conventional film cameras and I will be shooting on black and white film to then develop into prints in the dark room. The location in which i will be carrying out this photo shoot will be Bradford city centre and I will be photographing the old buildings in this area. Throughout this photoshoot, i will be aiming to capture the age and beauty which is present and can be found within the architecture found within the city of Bradford.
The buildings which I plan to visit during this photoshoot include:
Bradford cathedral,
St. Georges Hall,
City Hall,
The Wool Exchange,
The Alhambra,
The old Odeon,
The Bradford college old building
and any other old building which can be found in and around the city of Bradford
In order to capture photographs of these buildings I will be using experimental techniques when photographing. The techniques I plan to use when photographing include photographing architecture in reflections, close ups of buildings and head on shots of buildings. using techniques such as these when photographing will give each photograph which i take a unique and interesting look to it and it will eliminate the possibility off all of the photographs i take being the same. I want to eliminate this risk as i am photographing on black and white film and this means that i will not be able to go back and reshoot the photographs which i take if i am not happy with the way they turn out. In order to take some of the photographs in reflections, this means I will either have to use a reflective surface which i can find near a building such as a hand rail or carry a reflective item with me and use this. reflective items which i could use include a small mirror, the back of a spoon or a window of another building near by. In addition to this, depending on the weather on the day in which I take these photographs, if it has been raining and there are puddles on the ground, these could also be used to reflect the building. Furthermore, photographing buildings close up will also add more interest to this photoshoot as it means that any detailing found within the buildings can be captured easily. As i will be photographing the architecture of bradford, this means that i do not necessarily have to photograph the entirety of each building and photographing parts of each building close up will focus on the detail which has been put into the building which would be lost or made less prominent if i was to photograph the building as a whole. This said however, it does not mean that i will not photograph some of the buildings as a whole as there is a lot to see when buildings are photographed in this way.

I also drew out a story board briefly showing my ideas for this photoshoot and roughly how i would like some of these photographs to look. My drawing skills are not the best so this means that the diagrams within this story board do not represent the photographs I am hoping to take very well but I hope they give an idea of the images I wish to take.