This was a very open brief to end with which led me to have a plethora of ideas as to how to tackle it. A good thing about this is that I can use the ideas that I did not carry out this time at a later date as I feel that they would be interesting explorations to undertake. For the brief however, I decided to photograph things that either reminded me of home such as certain foods and drinks, or things that gave me a “homely comfort” such as my music equipment and my phone, which both provide comfort and an escape from reality when needed. I tried to utilise all the skills that I have accrued over this semester and also attempted to be more experimental with my use of colour and composition. This can be seen in the way that I have laid out the images in a sort of triptych format, as well as my occasional use of split toning on occasion, which I did to add a surrealist tone to the landscape of the subjects. I wanted to take all of the pictures in a similar way, attempting to get a focus on the angles of each subject as a sort of juxtaposition of architectural photography. This was interesting to me due to the fact these are minuscule items in comparison to buildings, but still have just as much if not more detail than the average skyscraper. The fact that I used an architectural tone with these images is also interesting because of the fact that a literal home is a form of architecture, which I feel gives the whole sequence a deeper contrast with the idea of a “home”. 
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