Photoshoot For Our Magazine

In yesterdays lesson we were given cameras in our groups, the reason being we were to have a 'photoshoot' for our magazine to get our front cover image.

My group decided to take various different photographs in various locations. We took a few photos in the park next to the college, this helps us tie in the theme 'hippy'. Out of all the shots we took all of them were of portrait format as they are being put onto our magazine front covers and its an A4 piece of paper.

We also took some photos in the college. when doin this we particullaly thought about levels. the reson being if a photograph is being taken looking upwards it makes the subject lok dominant and powerfull and if its taken looking down at the subject it makes it look small and vunerable. As we are doing a 'Hip-Hop' magazine we took a few images looking upwards as 'Hip-Hop' artists are seen as being big, strong and powerful.

We took some pictures on a contrasting background as we feel that we would like to cut images out and put them onto different backgrounds. we also took a number of close-ups as we feel that on most magazines' front page there is an image of a person(s) which is usuallly a close up.