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Lighting Ideas for Images Lauren Mabbett

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Lighting Ideas forImagesLauren Mabbett

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What I did to investigate lighting techniques.

- Take a photoshoot using dramatic lighting. - Use a black background and a white background- Use different angles to see what would relate better to my music magazine.

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The images I took in the studio show the conventions of lighting. I tried several directions of lighting to try emphasize the girls face and her innocence. These are several things I could include on my cover photo. The lighting on these images have been positioned on diagonals.

The diagonal lighting enhances the lighting in the face and creates a soft shadow on the image. This makes it look natural. For an acoustic artist this would work very well. I took these two images to show the studio partly not just my model on the background. This gives it a relaxed effect.

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The Photoshoots

- Throughout doing the photoshoots I think that the white background is more effective but for my front cover I shall make the lights brighter to have a more striking effect and use the softer lighting for the smaller stories. This can be used to introduce an act such as an acoustic performer.

- The harsh lighting would be good for bands and more rock/metal however the soft lighting would be good for the softer music such as acoustic, quiet relaxed music.

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My Magazine Photos

- After taking the photographs in the studio I have planned to use a white background with strong lighting for my cover photo. This is then going to draw the attention to the model if the photograph is bold. The outfit I have chose for my model is red therefore if I have strong lighting and a red outfit this will draw the eyes of the target audience and the readers into buying the magazine.

- For my contents page I am going to add several images from my shoot with fair harsh lighting. Aswell as that I am going to add some location photographs of another model that I am going to use for my double page spread. These will bring variety to the magazine and entice people to read further into the magazine.