Magazine Cover,Induction Evaluation

Induction Evaluation

I am quite happy with the outcome of my first project, and I  believe I have learnt quite a bit while doing so. During the taking of the initial photos I learnt that if I was standing in a T-stance I could keep my balance and move forwards or backwards while keeping steady holding the camera, I also learnt that I had to take portrait images from a close range for them to work as my cover photo, I did take some landscape photographs at the right distance that could have worked well if I had remembered which format to use.

      Using manual focus helped get a clear image, however some places the lighting made features in the images to see or made some areas of the image look blank, therefore I found side lighting instead of back lighting worked best to avoid these problems.

      In the background I aimed to find somewhere that would frame my subjects well and not over crowed the scene.

In Photoshop I used many tools, for example I used the elliptical marquee selection tool and shift on the keyboard to draw a circle, then I used the paint bucket to fill it in, after this I learnt how to include a bevel to make the circle look like a button. In addition I also used a stroke around my text for my title. After using the shape tool to make two rectangles, I learnt that be holding 'cmd and t' I could rotate my shapes and put them on an angle, and I could also do this with my text. I used these different fonts, because firstly, I wanted my magazine name to stand out and fit with the type of magazine cover I was producing, secondly I felt my sell lines were best kept simple and easy to read and lastly I choose my final font for my 'band name' to be allocated soporifically to that 'band'. These colours were chosen because I saw they didn't fade into the background colours but contrasted with them. I think, over all, the colours and fonts work well together on the background image and make a good magazine cover. If I could improve this I think I would use a lot more effects on my image and I would experiment with more Photoshop tools.

I have included this image as an example of a good portrait image, however I thought there was a lot of empty space on the right and at the top, so  I did not think this would make a good cover image as the subjects are not centralised.



This would have been a good image for a front cover because the subjects are at a good distance, unfortunately it is a bad example as I forgot to take the image portrait.




Again this image is a good example of a portrait image, however again the distance was slightly to far between the camera and the subject. Also the subject was again not very central for the purpose and it wasn't the best pose for a magazine cover image.




If the subjects had been closer in this image this would have made a perfect portrait image for the front cover as the lighting and setting is perfect, unfortunately there was a great distance to fit the main subjects in the frame and it was too much for a magazine cover, as it was not 'up, close and personal' enough for its purpose.