Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice

Task 4 Selection of final images & review

By Dan Watt

Aim of Shoot

The aim of is shoot was to get images to make a professional looking magazine front cover. I used Jack Rogers as the main focus of my photo-shoot, as professional music themed magazines such as Rolling Stone use images of celebrity's on their front covers.

Description of shoot

I believe this to be the best image out of my photoshoot, as I feel it looks professional and because I like the interesting angle which was taken from above In the photography studio. I ended up taking this image after I decided that generic angles would look boring and simple compared to professional magazines. I had jack go against the white screen to create a good contrast between the white and the blue on his jacket. I used the lighting to create a brighter range of colours and to make the image more visually attractive. This changed from my original plan as I was only going to take photographs in the radio studio originally.

Editing effects

This is one of the final images I have edited. First I used the black and white effect to get all the colour off my image. Then I used the history brush tool, to re-input the colour on to selected parts of the photograph. I only re-coloured in the red cap as I thought that would stand out most against the bold contrast of black and white. I then decided that I would not further edit this image as I didn’t want to make it too complex, I also felt that once I have actually started making the cover the text and everything else would become to much to look at once if I added more colour.

Final Image

Capture log

Rejected Images

I rejected this image because I felt the flash was too bright and because the camera was to close up to the subject.

I rejected both of these images as I didn’t feel the subject was pulling the appropriate pose for a music magazine cover.