TAKING PHOTOS FOR MY FRONT COVER
Knowing that I wanted a young, male DJ on my front cover, I decided to ask my brother if he would model as 'Clayton James'. I believe he has the correct image for my magazine genre and looks very edgy with his dark hair and gingery beard. As I initially decided to have all black writing on my front cover, I wanted Clayton to wear fairly bright clothing to add a pop of colour. I decided to style him in a red and blue checked shirt with a navy blue jacket and black jeans. Here are the photos I took:
For this image, I asked Clayton to look away from the camera, put his hands in his pockets and have a serious expression on his face. Although I was very pleased with the lighting, focus and colouring of this photo, I was unable to take it in-studio so unfortunately I didn't have a large enough white background to take the image against. Therefore there was a door frame and handle in the shot but I will still experiment on Photoshop to see if I can create a plain white backdrop and also remove the shadow from the side of his head.
For this photo, I wanted Clayton to maintain his serious facial expression as I thought this looked very effective and suited the genre of my magazine. I was very pleased with the outcome of this photo as it is bright, well focused and follows the rule of thirds method. Yet again I struggled with the issue of having a door frame in the image as well as a shadow so I shall attempt to remove this on Photoshop.
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