Photography

For my main image for my student magazine I needed to take some photographs of an individual person who looks like a typical student. I took about 10-13 photos all together and picked out the best ones. In this blog I have included my favourite photos and ones that didn't work, and I'm going to evaluate why they didn't work.
I had to consider many things when taking my photos, the photography HAD to be a medium shot of the person and I had to consider the composition, the students positioning, had o be aware not to cut out the students arms or chop of their head in the photos. And I had t remember to leave enough space about the individuals head to have space for a masthead. Also, I had t be aware of leaving space on the left hand side for coverlines. 

I used 'Rule-of-Thirds' to consider where the persons eye-point would be and how much of the photograph they would take up. I used the intersection points on the cameras settings to make sure the composition of the photo was what I wanted. 

This would be a good photograph to use for my front cover however, the background is too blank and would look very 'set-up' and not the college/university setting I was hoping for. 

This photograph was another option I was considering as my front cover image. I like the composition of the photo, and the horizontal lines created by the bricks is really interesting, they make the viewer follow the lines of the bricks.

I wanted some photographs taken outside to get the autumn colours in the photo, to go with the season. However, in this photo i cut half of the persons face and body out, which made this image un-useable and I took more photos using the same settings, but being more aware of the persons whereabouts.

This is the image I used on my front cover, I took the photograph on a higher place so it's looking down on the person. I managed to not cut out any part of the persons face or body, and i kept a space above the head, enough room left for a mast head. And I like the colours f the leaves and the overall composition, giving a lot of detail but still being able to keep the colours subtle enough to have a colour theme.