5. Photos

Here is a contact sheet containing the photos that I took for the cover of 'IT' Magazine. 

LOCATION -I chose a location in which the 'Sixth Form Centre' sign would be visible, as this is the main theme of the article. I also wanted an area which would give space for the models to be stood in comfortably without looking cramped. 

MODELS - I chose a group of students that all have very different, and distinct styles to show how very different sixth form is from the rest of the school, with no uniforms and less boundaries. To make sixth form seem sociable, and a desirable place to go to. I had them stood in a group, (varying their poses/stance), with minimal eye contact made with the camera, as I didn't want the main focus to be on them, but more so on the area. 

SHOOTING- I choose to take the images in portrait as this is how it would be displayed on the cover, as a whole, with minimal cropping. I angled the photos so that an area of blue sky could be seen, which if left un edited, would form the background to the text. I also left this in so that it would match the colour scheme subtly. 

Before and After Photo manipultaion. - Out of the images I chose this to be my final  photograph as I felt that the poses that the models did on this one were more suitable than others where they were positioned awkwardly, or were laughing. I then cropped the photo slightly, and made changes to the saturation levels, the and the contrast, by using Photoshop. I then added a colour filter so that the photos overall appearance would be warmer, with softer colour, as the original image had blue tones in it which made it appear colder.