I took some test shots to see how my artist would be portrayed through the camera. I experimented with different viewpoints and camera angles/shots during this. During this shoot I used my own camera, a Canon EOS 100D. This benefited me having my own camera as it was always available for my usage and it would give me better quality shots. Being familiar with this type of professional camera gave me advantages also as I understand preparing shoots and achieving them correctly and successfully to my expectations.
At the start of my shoot I turned the main ceiling light off and only used one light, being artificial from a soft box photography light; this ensured that there wasn't a light above from the ceiling creating a highlight straight from the top and instead from the soft box lighting, the light was placed parallel to Ophelia's face. Ensuring her main features were accentuated to over emphasise the artist herself. The first 8 photographs are portrait medium close ups of my artist; a portrait perspective within a shot is typically used within magazine usage due to the A4 size of the pages displayed vertically in portrait, the last few shots are landscape close ups, which are generally more commonly used for double page spreads. This helped me experiment with the proportions of my magazine's lay out well and how it would be successfully structured. The location of my shoot took place in a white room, this allowed me to have a plain white background to maintain the simplicity and exaggerate the attention and focus on my artist. As it was only test shooting for my real shoots, my model had relaxed and comfortable poses and a simple hair, makeup and outfit choice. Below shows slideshows including pictures of my artist and recce shots of the location I took the test shots in and the equipment I used to achieve my shots.
At the start of my shoot I turned the main ceiling light off and only used one light, being artificial from a soft box photography light; this ensured that there wasn't a light above from the ceiling creating a highlight straight from the top and instead from the soft box lighting, the light was placed parallel to Ophelia's face. Ensuring her main features were accentuated to over emphasise the artist herself. The first 8 photographs are portrait medium close ups of my artist; a portrait perspective within a shot is typically used within magazine usage due to the A4 size of the pages displayed vertically in portrait, the last few shots are landscape close ups, which are generally more commonly used for double page spreads. This helped me experiment with the proportions of my magazine's lay out well and how it would be successfully structured. The location of my shoot took place in a white room, this allowed me to have a plain white background to maintain the simplicity and exaggerate the attention and focus on my artist. As it was only test shooting for my real shoots, my model had relaxed and comfortable poses and a simple hair, makeup and outfit choice. Below shows slideshows including pictures of my artist and recce shots of the location I took the test shots in and the equipment I used to achieve my shots.
Recce Shots
These recce shots show the location that my test shots were taken in. The location was a white studio. Along with the location image, this slideshow also shows the equipment I used throughout my test shots and then carried out to use for the majority of my actual shoots. I used a soft box light for any illuminating or highlighting I wanted, - for example in my band shoot and then for shadowing during my first shoot. Below also shows my camera that I used for every shot I took. Every photograph I took for the construction of the cover, contents and DPS were taken by myself. (including shots, I used for my contents page which aren't featured on this blog as official shoots).