Moving on to brighter ideas...

Now that I have completed my experiment on 'time' I have decided to change my idea of fashion and the tension within it. I wanted to make more of that hidden feel to my photographs, such as how John Rees hides his models behind make-up and face paint. Going back to the work of Gregory Crewdson and Edward Hopper I also wanted to include that sense of mystery and how it can set off questions and story's within your mind, how a person stands or what senery they are in as well as what direction they're heads are pointing can help with setting the atmospheric scene.
To try and get sense of my idea I looked at another artist called Luis Sanchis.
The photos below really inspired my idea for my next experiment 'viewing mystery in a different light':

I love the way Luis Sanchis can create that atmospheric sense of mystery within the character and the way he has dressed the model in white, above, as to contrast the dark shadowy tones of blues and greens in the background in order for the person to stand out, as well as how she is standing with her head pointing towards the upper left of the photograph, drawing your eyes to the corner. There is almost a beauty to the photo with that sense of timidness and thought process of how this photograph came to be.

This is what I would like to experiment with and see if I can get someone to question my photograph when they look at it.

To complete this experiment I decided to set my scene at the beach, mid afternoon in order to get that pale, almost moody effect within the sky and surroundings in order to help with the 'mystery' theme. I chose to take pictures of people who almost seem as though they are a silhouette in the photo in which will set off the question 'what do they look like' within your mind. I chose to do this as I won't know who the people are and neither will the audience in which will put me in the seat of the audience. I wanted to know what it was like to be questioned, almost as though I am looking a someone elses work and I am just as clueless to who the 'silhouettes' are as the people looking at my photos.

Below are my experiments:

I think this experiment worked quite well as I managed to capture that multi-toned sky in which is almost 'moody'. I find that how I have taken the photographs works quite well as most of the people within them appear as 'silhouettes' which has a nice contrast with the tones of the background image of the beach scenes. The only thing I would say that I don't like about my images is that I have only been able to capture one photograph of someone on there own which sparks the question of 'lonliness' and a sense of mystery of why they are there in which I was hoping to maybe get within a few of my photographs.

However, my favourite image form the set of photographs above has to be the one that has the most people within it. The 5th image in which has 5 people and five dogs within it. I feel a sense of claustraphobia within this photograph in which is quite a nice feeling as I wasn't expecting to stimulate that sense within my photographs when I set out to take them, so I was a nice suprise. I also find that by having 5 people and 5 dogs within the photo it give a balance to the image as they are not all situated within the left or right of the photo. By having the couple situated in the top-right hand corner it balances out the heaviness of the bottom left hand corner in which makes the photograph appeal to the eye.