Photography:
first pictures taken (unfocused and wrong
positioning):
This picture shows the first photograph i took with
the camera, we can see that it is unfocused and the body is not symmetrically
in the shot. these were some major problems as they made the images quality
extremely low and inappropriate to use.
another problem with the image is the fact that the
lighting within the shot is landing to strongly on the face of the person used
in the photograph, this again reduced the quality of the picture taken.
After taking the first photograph i realized that
some changes would have to take place in order to create a photograph which is
both of high quality, fine level of lighting, and appropriate to use as the
front cover of my magazine.
The first change that i did was the simple change
of position while taking the picture, in my first shot i stood naturally and
simple held the camera in the general area i wanted to get a shot of, what this
caused was the wrongly positioned body placement within the shot, so to fix
this problem i changed my stance to use the T-Stance, this is a stance that the
photographer takes to give them attributes similar to that of a tripod which
would usually be used when taking a picture, so by utilizing the T-Stance i
managed to keep the camera both steady and in the right position. this fixed
the problem of the body being out of place.
While thinking of ways to improve the pictures that
i would take i was told that the camera can be effectively used in both a
landscape and portrait fashion, so i took shots in both of these fashions and
learnt that i felt that the landscape version would be a better choice if i was
taking a long shot or a medium long shot. but because i was wanting to take a
medium close shot i realized that taking the pictures in portrait was the best
way to suit the shot that i needed.
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After taking a couple more photographs i noticed
that the lighting within them was adding refraction lights and added unfocused
areas within the picture, to fix this problem i decided that we would change
locations to a place where the sun would only shine on one side of the persons
face and the place had to be well shaded with nothing reflective behind it the
location also could not be in direct sunlit on the face of the person, this
would mean that they're body language and facial expression would be different
then what intended due to the irritation of the light, this meant that the
light would not disrupt the shot that i took and also allowed a greater
visibility of the persons face, it also added as a nice effect for the picture
as half the face appeared lighter then the other.
While taking the picture i made sure to compare it
to what i wanted the front cover of my magazine to look like, i intended from
the start that the title would land right above the persons head and that the
shot would be in a medium close up, to make sure i did this right i split the
images that i took into three sections this allowed me to picture where each
thing should be in each section
3 sections i used:
By splitting the photographs up into these three
sections it allowed me to make sure that the photo was the best that it could
be in terms of being on the front cover of a magazine.
While taking the photographs i wanted to make sure
the photos had quite a closed frame to match the sense of it being a rock
magazine, therefore i had to make sure there was not a lot of open space in the
background of the photograph, after taking the first photograph i noticed that
the space behind the person was huge and did not give the effect that i wanted
to be given off, so while taking my other photographs i changed location to
have a wall behind the person and then moved onto a tree behind, i decided to
use the tree over the wall because while using the wall i struggled to get the
lighting right for the picture.
I feel that one thing that let me down when taking
the photographs was my lack of communication between me and the person who i
took the photo of, because of this lack of communication i feel that the body
language is slightly off from what i first intended it to be like, so if i had
this communication i feel i could of managed to get a stronger pose thus
matching the idea of a rock artist.
to conclude i feel that the photographs that i took
were more then suitable for the proposed magazine and i feel that the quality
of the photographs was well thought though and good, the only thing i feel that
should be changed within the photos are the pose of the subject, and the body
positioning could be slightly to the right more to make it more symmetrical.
After changes and experience:
Photoshop
evaluation
While using the photoshop software i sued many
different tools some of which were easier to use then others.
some of the tools used are:
• Shape
creation tool
• Text
creation tool
• text
editor tool
• layers
system
• font
editing
• text
shading and bulking tools
• re-sizing
tool
I found it difficult to use some of the
tools, one of which was the layers system, i struggled to understand that each
new thing added to the magazine must be in a new layer, rather then a layer
being for texts and a layer for colours etc. but i did find it easy to use the
text editing tools as they were very well positioned and simple in design to
use.
i feel as though the text on my magazine is
controlled as it is well placed out and does not overlap any of the important
features on the background image, the magazine also has a lot of white space
due to the spaced out text i did this to make the magazine seem like it was of
a higher quality as this is generally done with higher quality magazines.
Only a very small amount of the image on my
magazine was cut out, as i managed to get the right sized shot while taking the
photograph, the small amounts cut out were excessive space on the sides of the
image, i removed this space re-sizing the image to fit the A-4 space that we
used meanwhile being the right size to display the subject in the image
correctly.
i added multiple effects to my main title of my
magazine, the effects i added were: black shadow effects and a text thickening
tool to give my title a look which makes it stand out and match the idea of
rock and music. The shadow effect was used to give the title a professional
finish, i did this by using the text editing tool on the Photoshop software to
edit the depth of the shadows created by the text and also bulked up the text
with the same tool. I did not download any different fonts for my magazine i
used the preset possible fonts within the software as i felt a suitable one was
already within the preset fonts.
I used a mixture of red and black colours, i did
this to give the magazine a more edgy and strong look, i wanted this look as
this look matches that of the target audience of the magazine, people who
enjoying rock music tend to enjoy strong and edgy things so i used these
colours to make sure that is addressed in the font i used or whether that is
addressed in the imagery i took .
i feel that i could improve my magazine front cover
by using different varieties of text to add more action and interest to it i
also feel that i could of maybe played around with the text editing a bit more
to create an even more bolder and rock like title.
i feel like the imagery in the cover is a big
strength as it is in the T formation and also is the perfectly size shot, i
also feel that the colours i have chose to use are the best choice of colours
as they stick to a theme of black and red and do not stray to farm from a rock
magazine style.
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