Pictures

*These photos above are for my front cover music magazine. 

For the 1^st photo, the model, It isn’t very conventional as the image is blurred ever so slightly around the face which is not suitable for a magazine in general. Also, the model isn’t posing in such a way that promotes the music magazine.

For the 2^nd photo, I slightly liked this due to the fact that it is a medium shot as the model is looking directly at the at the camera as it engages with the audience.



For the 3^rd photo, this is a very blurry shot which is again, not suitable for a magazine in general. 

For the 4^th photo, I also think is not very suitable as the model is facing down and not directly into the camera as it does not create empathy, thus not attracting the audience as much as I would like to.

Overall, I think I would be using the 2^nd photo as this photo has fewer mistakes in comparison to the other photos that I have taken. Moreover, since this photo was a medium shot, it displays similarities to what a professional music magazine’s main image is presented.

For the first photo, I will not be using this because it is too dark therefore the audience would not be able to see her face. To add to this, the model’s face is covered. This would not be suitable for the double page spread as it lacks detail and expression from the model and the photo taken itself is slightly blurry.

For the second photo, I would not be using this photo because the model is facing downwards. This will not engage with the audience. However, I like this photo because it gives a sense of peacefulness as you can tell by her body language and positioning.

For the third photo, the photo is ever so slightly dark but can be changed easily by using Photoshop.
For the fourth photo, I like this photo as the guitar (prop) is placed next to her but her facial expression was quite emotionless.

For the fifth photo, again the facial expression seems slightly depressed even though the model is looking directly at the camera.

Overall, I will be choosing photo three because the facial expression is quite ‘happy’ and her body language is positioned in a way that she is in love with music as she is ‘playing’ the guitar. However, I can easily change the brightness and contrast of the photo as it would make the photo more presentable.

For this photograph, I have increased the brightness and contrast, especially around the head area because the original photo was slightly dark which may lead to unprofessionalism. I have also deleted the background of the photo as I want a plain background which looks more ‘classy’ and sophisticated. I have also edited the model's make-up on Photoshop. This is because it would bring out her facial features and would attract my target audience of my music magazine.

For the main image of my font cover, I did quite a lot. For instance background, colour balance, brightness and contrast and SFX. 

The background of my from cover, I have changed from purple background to dark blue. This is because from my research (mood board), a famous rock music magazines are tend to use blue to present there genre.

The colour balance and the brightness are also used to edit my photograph due to the original image is quite dark around the face, which will give an unprofessional look. So I have make the face brighter whereas the rest of the body stay the same. By making the model face brighter, it will bring the facial expression of the model better thus will capture the reader's attention.

Furthermore, the SFX is added around the left arm of the model. This is because I don't want it to look too plain at the bottom left corner when it comes to the construction part. By adding the SFX into the music magazine is challenging the convention due to they are more in a sci-fi genre than in a music magazine. This perhaps will draw the reader attention to buy a magazine.