After doing my first day shoot I soon found it was extremely hard to take the photo in the exact same place as the night shoot. When I began comparing the night and day, I definitely think they need to be in the exact same place to look effective. I also think that putting them side by side like I have creates a really harsh line between the two which draws your eye and takes away from the photos.
My concept is to show places that might seem like normal everyday places during the day, but when seen at night, they come across as scary and give off an aura that you don't want to be there. I think that the night shots give off this aura even without the comparison. People can probably tell that those places would be normal places during the day too. Therefore I don't think I need to have the day photos to compare them to.
One reason places at night give off a scary aura is because you don't know who's hiding in the shadows. Therefore for my next shoot I might try and add a hooded figure in the background to make them scarier. I also think it might work well as a series if I had the hooded figure moving closer to the camera in each photo. And maybe in the final photo the figure could be up really close and facing the camera. I got influence for this idea from a blog I found photographing hooded figures in the woods.
http://victoriabennettbeyer.blogspot.com/2010/10/hooded-figure.html
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