Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

I managed both tasks reasonably well, having photoshop at school as well as having it at home proved very useful as i was able to get work done out of school hours letting me do more work during school hours. When it came down to equipment i was readily equipped with a very good DSLR and other photography equipment as i already had an interest in it.

During the creation i came across a very distinct problem, in one of the photos that was perfect for my front cover one of the models wasn't looking directly into the camera lens, i could either use photoshop to touch it up or take his head from another photo that was suitable enough and put it onto the other photo.

As you can see here, on the left is the final photo after it had been edited and on the right is the original photo where you can see that the model on the far left isn't looking straight into the camera.

All i did was simply take his head from another photo, crop it with the lasso tool and drag it onto the other photo, i then used the clone stamp tool to adjust the area around his head in the background so that it looks like the photo was taken legitimately like that.

When managing  my models i sent all three of them some photos of what i was looking for and then gave them a description of; suspenders, plain t-shirts, trousers not jeans etc. scruffy but smart. I chose not to put any props like guitars or drum kits etc. in the photo because to me its seems rather cliche and typical to represent a music magazine, i wanted to portray the band as they are without any props making the end magazine more authentic. The location i chose for my photographs was a disused barn with rusted and bare metal showing and long grass to give the photo a boost to make it look and feel vintage, it also also adds some dark contrasting colours letting the photo look more glum and moody.