Music Magazine Cover Photo Shoot

Before I started to create my music magazine front cover, I had to take pictures of a student for the front cover.

This is the first image of the student I had taken. As soon as I viewed this photo, I wasn't pleased with it, as it doesn't have enough light on it. I had realised that the flash wasn't on the camera, so I quickly discarded this picture from going on my front cover. Also, I wanted to have one of his legs up on the wall, but you can not see his legs in this photo, as I had only taken it with the camera on landscape.

This is the second image I had taken of the student. For this image, I think that the problem is opposite of the previous one, that this image has too much light, as apposed to not enough light, as I had turned the flash on the camera on. Also, because I want to show his leg up on the wall, you still can not see it, as I had taken the image in landscape again. This is the pose that I wanted, as I wanted to make him look like a professional R&B artist. However, I would have wanted his hand in his pocket, instead of resting on his waist.

Again, with this photo, I didn't put the flash on it, so it appears to be too dark. It also doesn't show his legs, which is what I wanted in the photo, as I wanted him to have his leg up on the wall. For this reason, I decided not to use it, as I thought that images I had taken were better than this one.

This is the final image that I had taken in the photo shoot for the front cover of the magazine. In order to show his leg up on the wall, I decided to take it with the camera in portrait. The pose that he is in, in my opinion, is the perfect pose for how i wanted it. The way he is standing is how a typical professional R&B artist would be on the front cover of a magazine, being in a typical "cool" sort of stance. However, if you look closely at the image, the outside of it is quite blurry. This is because as I took the picture, I moved the camera slightly.

This is the final, manipulated image that was going on the cover of my magazine. I had taken all of the background out, leaving just the main image of the student. I did this by using the tolerance tool, highlighting the area that I did not want, and deleting it. However, for the little bits, such as inbetween the spikes in his hair, I had to go around the image manually, deleting little bits of the background that I did not want, until I was happy with my image. Overall, I am pleased with the final image of my front cover. If I could have, I would have got him to wear a hoody, with he hood over his head. This, stereotypically, is the look of the common R&B artist today, and this is how they usually look on the cover of a music magazine.