I'm drawn to and repulsed by the High Street in Guildford at the weekend. It seems to me to be filled with people desperate for something meaningful, trying to find it by wandering around down town. There's this blank, empty gaze flitting from shop to shop. It can't be captured by sticking a camera in their faces. So how do you get towards communicating it.
Today I had the idea to try shooting with very slow shutter speeds to see whether blurring the motion helped at all. I think it has. It doesn't quite get at what I'm after, but I think they're still interesting.
The issue that I hadn't considered was that even a shortish long exposure ( 1/4 sec) makes fairly over-exposed images with the aperture right down and ISO 100 (the lowest available on my camera), so perhaps I need to try under other conditions than a bright August afternoon.
