Shoot/Edited Images.

During a media lesson, me and another media studies student took the opportunity to explore Marlwood and take lots of pictures of what we thought would be suitable for our school magazine covers. We experimented with different camera angles and compositions to see what worked best. During the Christmas half term, we decided to meet up to work on our media images and edit them on Photoshop so that they were ready and looked professional for our magazine covers. We will be using different images on our covers but our edits will be similar as we worked together on editing but went our separate ways after this. Here are the edited images I am considering to use on my magazine cover:



The background in this image has been made blurry as it wasn't important or neccessary. Also with a depth of field affect, the audience is able to focus properly on the focal point which is of course, the boy student working.



The technique that I used to create this image was quite unique and interesting. I found a blue piece of paper, rolled it up and placed the lens through it. This created a blue, rounded border on the image. And the picture inside the frame happened to be brilliant too - the students are looking up at the teacher (looking up has connotations of herhaps the teacher being an idol/inspiration to these students), whilst the teacher is also looking down on them. Overall, I think this is a perfect composition. In terms of editing, I enhanced the blue border by going over it with the airbrush.



The model in this image has been majorly edited, making his skin appear very smooth. The background has also been coloured in white using the airbrush. The raw image has another student in the background but I found that the image would look better without him and with a plain background.



I wanted to take this image because I love fashion and thought by adding a textiles image, I would be adding my own personal touch to the magazine cover. In terms of editing, the background has been blurred out and I have adjusted the brightness and contrast so that the image is bolder. The model is a fashionable person herself so she was a suitable person to choose for the image.



This image has only been cropped. I experimented with adjusting the brightness and contrast but it didn't really work so this is image is kept rather simple.



I really like this image as it is different to the rest. It has an unlimited colour palette with it being bright and colourful! The models are smiling and showing off their work which is a good composition to use if you want to portray a brilliant school who product great work. The colours have been contrasted brighter so that they are even brighter! It has also been cropped to make the image more even and straight. I chose models here who had charisma and a nice smile.