Photos for our magazine

We shot our photos as we planned on a white background in college. We all had a filming props to hold during our photo shoot, Tanya held a clapper board Kate held a tripod and i held a light. We set the camera up  on a tripod stand and put it on self timer. We took several pictures from different angles. After looking at all the pictures we decided  on the first one we took which is the camera looking up at us and were looking down on it making us look more important we then went onto Photoshop and changed the curves of the photo which affected the lighting of the picture (image, adjustment, curves) and made it more white and bright giving it a eery feel and making us stand out more in the picture it also, made the light on the wall less visible making it look more like a professional magazine. We then saved this edited photo and put it into InDesign were our layout for our magazine is. After adjusting colours of fonts and removing colour background from the EMPIRE title and the number 30 which we done on Photoshop by erasing the colour and in InDesign by using the clipping path we had our final magazine cover.

Here are the pictures we took during or photo shoot for our magazine cover.

After trying all these photos in InDesign with our planned our front cover we decided that the last photo shown above worked the best. However all the photos we took looked good and suited what we wanted for our magazine but we needed to take into acount how the masthead and coverlines worked with the picture therefore we decided on the last one as it does not cover the image to much as we want the picture to interact with the reader as much as possiable and by covering the face would reduce this.