Photoshoot for front page

First Photoshoot

This image is of all of the pictures I took in my first photo shoot for my front cover. Overall the pictures were fairly successful and some of them are better than others due to lighting and camera settings. from all of the pictures i took and narrowed it down to 3 images that i thought were the best.  With these two images i noticed hings that could be I'm,proved in a re-Shoot and decided it would be best to take these images and do another shoot in light of the best images.

This is the first of the two images that I liked best. I like the pose which is linked to my research with the hand on the models face. However there are a few faults that are too difficult to get rid of in editing. The watch on her wrist does not look very good and looks it of place in the picture therefore next time I will make sure the model has no unwanted jewelry on. The picture is quite dark and in my research the images on front covers are much more bright. I also think that this image is a bit too close and doesn't have enough space at the top.  In the re-shoot I will make sure the picture is taken further away.

This is the second picture that I chose as a better image. Again the picture here is taken up too close which means the top of her head is cut off. Another problem here is that the model was placed to close to the wall which means that shadows were created behind her arms. When I took these pictures no actual lights or lamps were shone onto the model which meant in many of the photos I ended up with large shadows around her. I like the pose however, and hope to combine the two poses for the second photo-shoot.

 

I did try other sources of light which turned out to not work very well either. With the previous pictures I dimmed the lights and used the flash on my camera which created shadows. For this image I turned the light on completely in the room and took the flash off of the camera. This however did not work very well and make the pictures look a yellow/orange tinted colour and still created shadows so I decided to return to my original source of light.

RE-SHOOTING

I am going to re-shoot for the front cover using the same model and outfit as the previous one. This time I am going to use a white back-drop sheet and two lights so the picture is bright and not as harsh on the model's face. The hair and make-up will be done in the same way.

 Second Photoshoot

I re-shot the first photo shoot using the same model and one of the outfit used in the previous pictures. I felt that from all of the 3 outfits used before the green leotard best suited the genre.

4 FINAL PICTURES

These are a few of the pictures that I re-shot. There are two poses that i tried to re-in-act with better lighting and a softer background. this time I did not get as many harsh shadows that made the pictures look dull and off-colour. after taking all of the re-shot pictures i then decided that he pose without the hand on the models face looked better. I think the pictures without the hand look better because the model is then more leaned forward and takes up more space and fills the image better.

In order to make my photos better I used 2 studio lamps that were placed either side of the model in order to light her face better and make her skin tone more brighter and even. I placed my model further away from the back drop to prevent shadows being created which happened in the previous photo-shoot. The make-up I did slightly subtler, especially on the lips, I used a brighter colour to enhance the brightness of the green leotard. With the hair, I kept it in the same style except i made the hair slightly more sleek and less fluffy, as this would become an obstacle when I tried to edit the background of the picture.

These 2 pictures are quite similar and the top one was my first choice. I chose this one over the other as it had her elbows fully in the shot and her face was slightly more focused and centred. However I then realised that her head was cut off and the top and it is the wrong shape and size for a magazine as it was took quite close up and horizontally. The second image is in fact brighter and shows more of her body, making the model look slimmer which works well with what I found in my research of this type of magazine. Therefore I have chosen to use this image for my front page but I will cut some of the space at the top off so it does not look too empty.

FINAL PICTURE FOR FRONT PAGE