Test Shots Evaluation

I took some test shots using the three people that are going to be in my final magazine. I took these at home and tried to replicate a studio, unfortunately this didn’t, as I will describe in detail later. To take the photos I used a Cannon 1D Mark II.

 An example of one of the photos I took Is below, you can see that the golden spiral works perfectly here but the lighting cast too many shadows on their faces. I was also advised to swap the person on the left around with the middle person as he had better face for the lead. I agree with this and when I come to take my final shots I will firstly try it this way round.

Another problem witch I can see is that when I made a mock up using one of my photos there wasn’t any of my 3^rd color in the photo. To change this I will either see about making the white t-shirt into a purple one or try and find purple accessories that will grab a looker’s eye.

With this mockup there are a couple things wrong, when I took the photo I was standing too close to them so when it came to putting the picture on the cover it had to manipulated so that it covered the whole page, I will need to stand further away in the future. Also the amount of content on there is too much and I should reduce this to go along with my style of minimalist. Finally I need to think about where I position the photo because on this where I have written ‘Sam Locke’ I needed to change the S and E so that it would show up.

For my DPS I decided to make the article about the groups summer, their new album and incorporating festivals. To have a photo to go along with this I took some outside with fire again I was pointed out to emphasize the festival theme I would need to add some things to the shot.

I agree with the comments made that I should add props such as a tent, beer cans and some sort of extra lights to make it feel more like a campsite, apart from this the actual photo is what I want to achieve with them having black around them but with some grass still visable.