>>3638414Shoot with the materials they shot with? If you want to shoot with modern equipment find a good way to get an atmospheric glow/haze through either scratching of a UV filter or perhaps applying some sort of light grease to it. Then during processing start by pushing the blue tones during the BW conversion up to as bright possible. A lot of the early processes were more sensitive to blue light meaning those were over exposed.
Compositionally you will want to shoot extremely formally. Refer to 16th and 17th century painting for compositional strategies. You will rely a lot on the golden ratio. You will also want to keep important elements fully displayed and contained within the image frame instead of running them out of the frame. There has been a lot written on the effects of photography on painting composition. It might also be worth reading on (if it isn't included in the other reading) the effects that the camera obscura had on painting as an aid in creating realism in painting.
Most interesting and perhaps more satisfying would be to instead collect a wide range of these photographs and then identify what in particular you find appealing in them. Then strip away the rest of the aesthetic and use what remains to develop a personal aesthetic that is somewhat less controversial than pictorialism while still taking advantage of what you enjoy about the movement.
