The Street Task...3 Portraits

I decided to take the pictures of people in my road in the style of Shizuka Yokomizo. Yokomizo sent her subjects letters asking if they wanted to take part in her experiment. She would allocate them a time of which to stand by their window and open the curtains or blinds, if they did not want to participate in the project, they would keep the blinds shut, or not turn up. I have done this but in my road, firstly I told my sister to pull back the blinds at 8pm as she did I took a picture:

My sister, Harriet and her boyfriend, Jamie

However, in the day the reflection of the sun bounces off the window spoiling the picture, at night the flash is shown in the picture, and with out the flash the shutter speed is slower (due to the absence of light)and as I am absent of a tripod the images normally end up blured, however, after a couple of shots I ended up with this photo...


After taking these pictures I arranged to see my neighbour down the road, who bought along his son (who I hadn't met before) and these are the pictures I took...



Obviously the main difference between Yokomizo's work and this picture is I was the one inside taking a picture of the boy who was outside, this was mainly due to the reflection that was bouncing back in the picture when we were reversed. In these two pictures I turned off the flash so that the light wasn't flashed back in the picture, ruining the image.