Photos

These are the photos I took for my music magazine. I used different backgrounds, camera angles, camera distance, lighting, degree of eye contact, facial expression, and clothing to some degree in order to get a varied range of images for editing. I used models who are part of my target audience in order to familarise them with the magazine and appeal to them further.












I asked the model to play a song on guitar for this photograph because I wanted to introduce the band I had created as having a casual relationship with the audience. I didn't want the images to show them up on a stage or in some glamourous pose, I wanted them to appear like regular people interested in music just like the audience, which I felt would create a feeling of familiarity between the reader and the people in the photos.

I wasn't originally going to use this image because the model on the right smiled where I had wanted it to be a more seri0us pose, I considered cropping it and adjusting the image to incorporate only the model on the left, but eventually decided against it after spending some editing it and did not use this image in my final magazine.

Again I tried to give this photograph a personal feel by trying to show the members of the band in an everyday setting, I used props like the beer cans, whiskey bottles and guitar to try and show their 'rock and roll' attitude, theming with the rock/indie genre of my magazine. To further the familiarity of the image I took it from a higher angle so the reader would be looking down on the image, which creates a feeling of comfort and position of power. Making the reader feel at equal with the band members instead of just an insignificant fan. This is something I wanted for my magazine in general, to make it as appealing to the target audience as possible on a personal level.

I took this photograph against a bright background because I think it made for a more lively image. I had the models stand in profile back-to-back because I thought it gave a feeling of teamwork, that they had eachothers back. Which I thought was appropriate since the idea is that they're band-mates, I thought it would be appealing to see for the readers. I was originally going to use this image for my front cover but then I decided that eye-contact was essential to engage the reader and encourage them to buy the magazine, so I used this image elsewhere.

I took this photo for use on my front cover so so I had the models give complete eye contact, as is conventionally used on magazine front covers in order to give a sense of personality for the reader. I wanted them to have neautral poses without much facial expression to convey that my magazine is serious. I wasn't as happy with the photograph as I would have liked to have been though, due mostly to the lighting and shadow which I had assumed would come out better in the photograph.