Photographs

For the task, we had to take a selection of photos for the school magazine cover. Depending on what we wanted the magazine to feature, we had to chose a section of the school, eg. science to take a photo from. We thought that science would be appealing to the students in younger years, as there is a lot of variety within the subject, which would give us a lot of flexibility. We wanted the photo to portray someone who was really enjoying the subject, with a lot of excitement so that it would be eyecatching to the audience.
I have included a few of the photographs we took...

This is one of the first ones we did, the lighting has worked very well in this shot, as it is highlighting her very well, and all together it is a good photo.
However the only issue we had with it, was that it was just a regular photo, and she looks happy, but not quite excited enough for what we had wanted on the magazine cover.
We needed someone who looked like they were doing something really exciting within science, for example, an experiment for the first time to encourage students to read the magazine. We had wanted to have maybe even a comical element to the photograph to make it not seem like a dull school magazine.

This image however, was the opposite. The face expression, and body position would  have been perfect for what we wanted on our magazine cover, but with this shot, the lighting is not as good as the first image, and the other person in the picture draws attention away from the main focus, meaning we would have to cut around him, which would mean a lot of extra work, and might not look very professional.

After experimenting with these few photos, I know now that we need to make sure everything is set up right before we try to take the photo, like the background, the lighting, and so on.
We will, try to combine both aspects of the photos, so that we will hopefully end up with a better looking photo, that is just what we had wanted to end up with.