Assignment 3 - My "Heads" emulation

For my emulation of Philip-Lorca DiCorcia's Heads series I decided to shoot in Chester. It was my intention to shoot from the walls, in particular the wall that passes over theEastgate street and holds the Chester clock 

In reality, when I actually setup to take the images from this point, I felt I was too high and that the angle I was shooting at (I was using a 70-300mm telephoto lens) was too harsh and if I shot further into the distance I felt that the surroundings where too distracting. So... I moved up onto the rows next to the Chester cross.

From this position I could reduce the angle with which I took my photographs but I was still faced with a problem... I couldn't focus on the one area, because the space was so big for people to pass through, the chances of a suitable subject passing over a preset spot where slim (I tried and got nothing). It was then that I realised why DiCorcia had chosen the spot he did, beneath the scaffolding he used the path was narrow, so his subjects had to pass through his spot, mine didn't! So I decided in order to get my images, I would remain in the same spot, and the camera would be rigged to the tripod still, but I would pan it to capture my subjects. 

Below are my resulting images which I will present to my group for feedback. Overall I am happy with the images I have achieved for a first attempt. I have cropped the images to the same ratio that DiCorcia uses so I have lost some image quality, but I felt the ratio of medium format changes the feeling of the images and seems to give them something more with regards to focus. Something else I realised with this shoot is; the amount of information we lose when we decided to only shoot a persons head and shoulders and how much this creates more "mystery" around the image. 

There is no information included with each of the images, staying true to DiCorcia's style with this series, I want the viewer to create their own backstory for each image. I tried to be very selective with my choice of subjects, I looked for people I thought looked interesting.