Image Analysis

•I chose to take a high angled shot of my model here. I intended it to be a full body shot, but as I took the photo a shadow appeared at the bottom of the photo, this shadow was what lead me to do what I did when editing the photo. In the photo, the model is seen wearing a white shirt and a jacket that’s currently in style.

•I used Photoshop to edit this photo.•In this picture, I decided to increase the brightness, so that the shadow at the bottom stands out more for effect.•I then made the decision to higher the contrast, I felt that this was effective because it changed parts of the picture to seem more bleak which could be linked in to a the genre of music or into a colour scheme of the magazine.•Finally, I lowered the saturation of the picture, this picked up on the vibrant colours, such as the models face and the bucket in the background and made them a softer colour.

• While taking this photo, I asked my model to pose in this way so that he came across as a very chilled out person and that he isn’t really bothered about what people think of him.

• I had him dress in these clothes, black suit and white shirt because I wanted to loosely base the style of Arctic Monkeys front man, Alex Turner. I did this because the Arctic Monkeys are a big band in the indie pop and music industry.

• I edited this photo in Photoshop.

• I first put a black and white filter on the whole picture to give an effect of it being more mysterious.

• After, I decided to decreased the warmth of the picture. This gave the picture a more urban look and allowed the different shades to flow into each other better.

• I decreased the saturation of the picture to make the black and white filter stand out better. I feel like this change made the finish of the black and white look slightly more professional.

• Finally, I increased the depth of the shadows under the model, I believe that this completed the picture and left it with all parts of my editing complementing each other.

• Here I took a full body shot of my model. I did not tell the model to pose in any particular way in this photo, it was taken while we were just having a conversation but actually come across quite effectively as it looks completely natural and shows the model having a laugh, which could work well as to showing the reader that he might not be the way he is portrayed.

• I did however, tell him to stand in front of the brick wall. I did this because if I did choose to further develop this photo, the brick wall could look very effective.

• I used Photoshop to edit this picture.

• I decreased the saturation of the photo in order to make it look a little vintage and old, this was to link it in with the genre of music that I am basing my magazine on.

• I also added a grain effect to also make the picture look a little more dated.

• Finally, I increased the brightness of the whole photo, I did this because of the poor lighting outside, this did however have a positive effect because it made the model’s clothing stand out more from the background.

• In this photo, I asked the model to look away from the camera in order for him to come across as mysterious because we cannot see his direct eyes.

• I chose him to be wearing the black jacket to illustrate that he can have more than one look, with the black suit and the bigger coat being his others.

• Again, I used Photoshop to edit this picture.

• While editing this photo, I first changed the filter to black and white again, I believe that the black and white filter works well when the model is wearing black and white clothes.

• I then used the sharpen tool in order to make the image stand out from itself.

• Finally I played with the contrast in order to find the perfect level for the models facial features, such as his jaw line.

• This is one of my favourite shots from the photo shoot. This is because it shows off the models facial features and by looking at it I can already vision what I want to do with the picture in my magazine.

• I used a mid shot and a high angled shot, I also had the model looking directly at the camera, this was to create the thought of confidence.

• I edited this photo using Photoshop.

• I turned the contrast of the photo down, this was so that the models cheek bones were more visible.

• I then tweaked the brightness slightly. I turned it up to make my model look slightly less pale in the picture.

• To finish, I made the shadows darker. I did this in order to make the models jaw line more noticeable. I was able to do this because of the slight shadow under the models chin.