The Photo shoot

In my opinion, I feel like my photo shoot went very well. The weather was perfect for the lighting I needed, I had all the outfits and accessories there from when I planned it which made everything go smoothly.

I first took photos in the library when it was empty which turned out well apart from the fact that when I took a few photos against the light my two models were very dark. However, when I used the flash on the camera it turned out better which solved my problem. But by putting on the flash, everything got washed out which means that I needed to edit the photos so they have that mystery effect.

Without Flash

With Flash

A mistake I have made and reflected upon is the fact that I took my cover photo landscape instead of portrait. This now means that I have to re-size the image and use it but a smaller version and I won't be using it to cover all of the pages. I intended to use the image I took of Emily and Safa in the library as a full spread background but I realised that it was hard to find the right shade of yellow and blue to make the font stand out against such photo.

Original

Edited

To edit this photo I used a website called picmonkey. I found this website really good on editing small details on the face especially on Emily's face. I deliberately asked her not to wear any makeup so that I could edit it on her. I turned her into a vampire by layering on dark undertones to her eyes, pail skin and dark red lips with blood dripping down them. I feel like I've done a good job even though it isn't the most professional edit. I gave it my best shot and I'm very pleased with the outcome. I also darkened the surroundings including Emily but not Safa to give it an effect that Safa is vulnerable and doesn't know that Emily (Vampire) is behind her. Hopefully the readers will take note of this and have an effect on them too.


Now for my cover image, I looked and debated which one was the best photo and location.

If I had chosen this one, I would improve it by cropping the top as it shows too much white and it isn't appealing.

I liked this photo very much as I loved her smile. It was a very inviting smile which would have made the readers feel welcome to read the magazine. However, she looked too cheerful and stiff so I decided not to use it. In addition, felt like the atmosphere of the photo was too bright for the mysterious and dark theme of Halloween.

I would have chosen this one but I didn't really find it
 interesting enough to edit.

This image would have been one of my idle front cover but when I started to edit, it occurred to me that it didn't have a very scary vibe and I was having trouble editing it to look dark. I think that if the background lighting was darker it would have added more of a scary and mystical effect.

Edit

The original image.

 This is the one I chose to edit because I thought of putting the gurdge girl from the movie "The Ring" behind Safa and make the girl transparent so it looks like she's barely there but in further exception you see her in the corner peeking though. The website I used for this edit was pizap. I regularly use this website to edit some of my photos that's why I found it very easy to use.  I find my edit quite good apart from the fact that it got quite pixelated. That was the only downside of my edit. But now that I know this I'll make sure not to do the same mistake on my Music Magazine.