Magazine Cover

I framed my image so that it was in the bottom left hand side corner, I also made it quite big which made it stand out; I did this because we see things from left to right so the picture would be one of the first things customers got to see. This also allowed me to have my headlines nearer to the top which also stood out.

My model was very easy to work with and I generally let her get on with it but I positioned her to where I wanted her and told her what look I wanted to go for. My eye line was mainly the same as hers so that wasn’t really a problem.

 

The background lighting was quite dark and dull which made my picture look dim, so by using Photoshop I brightened it up and changed the background to something which would be more advertising to audiences.

I used margin guides so that it made sure that I got everything fitted in perfectly that I wanted, otherwise if I didn’t, when I printed my magazine cover out it would’ve been missing certain areas and wouldn’t have had maximum effect. I found my font and downloaded it from a website called dafont.com, I chose this font because it suited my magazine and didn’t look too shabby, it stood out to me as soon as I found it and really works well with the colour and design of my magazine. Some new skills in which I learnt are mainly touch up skills such as the toning skills; dodge, burn and sponge tool, these allowed me to  make my picture darker or lighter and change the colour saturation. I also learnt the focus tools which by using the blur, sharpen or smudge tool allowed me to sharpen the edges. There were stamp tools which used pixels to create the same type of pattern over something else and there were also healing and patching tools which allowed me to replace pixels why preserving the texture and shade.

I decided to use a colour code of three different colours which were orange, black and white, I think these colours work well together and make the orange really stand out which gives it the maximum effect. I cropped my image so that I only got my model because I didn’t like the background so I imported it onto a new background which involved black and orange which linked in with my colour theme as well as the picture.

Lighting

Side Lighting

Side lighting allows us to catch the subject from the side with the shadows being the main stand-out; this allows us to change the general mood of an image. It increases the contrast and is most effective when used with black and white pictures because it captures needle sharp edges. Whereas, front lighting allows us to capture 3D like image with the shadow, it’s the most basic lighting.

It can also have a massive effect on the photo. The brightness of the light usually comes from the left or right, making one dark darker than the other. This is a great technique for capturing an image with a mysterious feel to it. For a more natural feel I could use something that reflects the light onto my person’s body which would soften the effect.

Back Lighting

Back lighting is pretty basic. It literally is just the light that approaches from the back. This can have to effects; turn a photo into something of beauty or turn a beautiful photo into a disaster. The camera reads the brightness of the light behind something and sets itself to only expose certain lighting.