Contact sheet: Photoshoot

During this photoshoot I prioritised getting some images for my website (stories/images for audience interactivity and merchandise shots) as well as doing some test shots for some studio photographs to get used to the lighting because I don't have much experience with professional equipment.

The headshot photos I will not likely use because my model is either blinking, I positioned the camera wrong, or the lighting is slightly off, but they were a good opportunity for me to practise with the camera.

The shots with the camera prop and flowers are ones that I will decide between to encourage audience interactivity maybe through a photography competition - some of these picture may need cropping.

The tote bag shots were ones that I was practising for possible merchandise shots of a tote bag that I will edit a design onto.

Overall, I like some of these photos and am likely to use one of the camera and flower shots and possibly one of the tote bag shots, but I don't think I will be using any of the headshots.

These are some images that I took on my phone for test shots of possible images I could get outside. I really like the ones were she is looking directly into the camera with a natural smile. I won’t be using some of these images because the flowers are covering too much of her face or the background isn’t ideal, but I really like some of these images for either my website or the contents page.

Contact Sheet

 

Planning

Subject: Sophia

Costume: White tops, maybe floral, jeans

Props: Flowers, tote bag, maybe sunglasses

Makeup: Natural, maybe add highlighter


Production list:

- tote bag

- flowers

Inspiration for merch poses:

This pose is inspiration for showing my merch item of a tote bag, I really like the composition of the photo and how it can showcase the design on the tote bag whilst still clearly showing my model and the flower element that I plan to incorporate throughout my entire NEA in the magazine covers and contents pages as well as on the website

    

   This is my inspiration for my earrings merch. I like this            pose for similar reasons as to the image above, I love            how the pose draws attention to the product (earrings)            whilst upholding the recurring image of the flowers and            featuring models instead of only showing the product            because this enhances my theme of nurturing new artists,        by keeping models/artists involved in the imagery

Industrial Context: Billboard Magazine

Industrial Context: Contemporary Context

 

Industrial Context: History of Magazines

Test shots

During half term I was unable to meet up with my models to take some practise shots, and the weather was not suitable to take the background images that I wanted to so I wasn’t able to get my test shots. Due to being unable to meet with my models because plans didn’t line up, I now understand the importance of planning ahead of time.

Ideas for poses for cover 1 (see pitch for inspiration photos):

- full body shot 

- sitting down

- slight side view?

- DIRECT ADDRESS

Ideas for poses for cover 2 (see pitch for inspiration photos):

- medium close up shot

- DIRECT ADDRESS

Ideas for inside pages/backgrounds:

- blue sky with clouds

- fields with flowers

- close up of flowers

- wide shot of field

- imagery with contrast

- consistent colour palette with front pages