Shoot plan

research into my clients.

when speaking to all three of my clients i found out the basics of what they needed such as lighting, style/genre and the instruments they play. with Lina and Lauren i managed to find out a bit more of what they would like for instanse; Lina would like to have a very colorful background and to be posed with fans to create the movement in her hair. Lauren would like pictures covering parts of her face to show shyness like the photos below.

 

I paticularly like the bottom photo because it is brighter and would show more of a personality and it allows space for if Lauren decided to use the shots for leaflets and flyers. Lauren also wants to have brightly coloured eyes/makeup to make her stand out in the photo. Lauren prefers location shots and photos like this would be better with a simple background behind as the background would take away from Laurens

 

Lina would like portraits and i had the ideas of some to be used for different things like Lauren. so i researched some exsisting photos to show and portray the idea...

 

All of these photos i feel from speaking to Lina would fit what she wants. the last photo in paticular i think would be great if Lina wore white and i changed the filters on the lights behind her so all the diffferent colours bounced of of her, along with the fans to make the movement in her hair  would be great for what she wants. with regards to Lina being a vocalist I had the idea of Lina doing a live shoot and singing whilst i take photogrpahs of her singing to get the sense of her being the vocalist. the tope two photos were the inspiration for Lina to create flyers and posters for if she becomes a singer or ever has gigs to go to. also in the style of the second photo of Demi Lovato would be a great photo for a CD cover.

My third client Liam wants studio and lcoations shots, in the studio he wants simple lighting and to have a kind of self portrait to portray him being a gutarist. my ideas for this are simple because i quite like the idea of a close up of him holding/playing the guitar.

These three photos are my choices that i think would work well and i am going to suggest these to Liam. i paticularly like the 1st photo because it still has him in the photo. it is a very simple but very effective idea.

Liam wants live location shots, i really like this idea and have found a photo that would be great, simple and fits into what Liam wants.

 

music photogrpahers. Debbie Smyth

Debbie Smyth inspires me because she has worked with a lot of famous people such as ACDC, Coldplay, Blink 182, Bon Jovi, Aha, and Aerosmith etc. she has published on the covers of many magazines including Kerrang.

Because there is not a lot of background for Debbie Smyth I am able to follow her blog, she was recently at a St Pancras Station being the photographer of station session gigs,this particular one was for Charlie Simpson, this is the style of music photography i enjoy because she is up front and is able to get many different self portrait shots, here are a few of hers...

music photographers. Ian Yates.

Ian Yates has been a free lance photographer since 1992, he doesn't only shoot specific category's or genres but shoots when ever he can wherever he can, this type of photography inspires me because I like and very much enjoy all sorts of photography such as wildlife, weddings, landscape, portraits etc.  so far this year Ian has 12 pictures featured on the local news weather programmes on both ITV  central and BBC 1

Additionally he has had picture published in the telegraph travel depending where in the world he is, the New of the World Sunday magazine, both inside soap and soap-life magazines, Hello, Closer and Farmers Weekly and also Canons own EOS magazine. Ian also supply two agencies in London and one in Spain with celebrity and music pictures. He has taken photos of celebrities performing at the Midland Music Festival t Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire.

He has photographer people such as Peter Andre, The Saturdays, Alexandra Burke, Olly Murs and The Wanted.

Ian Yates has also done over 100 weddings, i like this type of photography because its a brilliant chance of getting natural photos ( people not expecting the shot). These are some of Ians Photos ...

ED2 photo assignment 2 evaluation

Evaluation

I started off with my research and developing my ideas for the book cover, I found lots of really good inspiration for my idea such as shadows, segregated scenes and invisible men. This gave me the idea to take a photo of just a shadow, I thought this would be a good idea because then the person is there but you get the feel of him feeling invisible rather than being invisible.

During the shoot: the shoot went very well because it didn’t take a lot of time to set up, I used two lights, one harsh and the other with a honeycomb front to create a softer feel, this made a double effect on the shadow giving the effect of invisibility that I wanted to create. My model did very well as he was able to manipulate the double shadow as well as his own, I took 4 photos on film using a medium format camera, this had to be set and focused accordingly to the way the model moved as I moved the lights also to have a different shadow each time for a range of images.

Fixing the negatives: for this I had to load the 120 film onto the spirals and in to the canisters to develop the negatives. For this I had to mix 600ml of water and 600ml of developer and develop this for 15 minutes, turning and tapping the canister every 30 seconds. After tipping away the developer mix I then filled the canister with stop bath chemicals for 1 minute, emptied and filled with 1300ml of fix for 5 minutes, after this I washed them out by letting water continuously run through for 15 the dried the negatives.

Printing: to print my photo I did contact strips of my negatives  with 5, 10, and 15 seconds of light exposure to find the best outcome, I made a print of 15 seconds and a print of 13 seconds so i had a choice of which one works the best. When loading the negs into the enlarger I had to lower the negs towards the paper to make it fit the frame, loaded the paper, shiny side up and exposed the paper to light to print the picture onto it. after this i developed the photos for 1-2 minutes, washed for 30 seconds and fixed for around 5 minute before rinsing the chemicals of and drying the photos. after this i scanned the photos into Photoshop and made my book covers, the 1st one i simply flipped the image round and placed it in a good position where the writing would not be cut of or the image would not take away the effect of the writing, by turning down the opacity on the writing i overcame this problem...

The second book cover i decided to use the contact sheet i made to create the effect of old passport photos of a man who looks like he doesn't exist, because i printing on different film to what would have been used in the 1950s i used Photoshop to create a frame which says 'Kodak' on the side to make it more realistic to the time period, i really liked this effect because it is more complex than just a plain photo in the background and it gives an edge to the cover...

Overall if i had the chance to do this project again i would have a different approach of planning many different ways and techniques to create photos and have a lot more time to actually create the covers because i felt there wasn't enough time to make as many covers as i had wanted.

ED2 photo assingment 2, mock up covers.

 This first image i used because it gave me the impression of lonelyness and feeling singled out, which is what the book is about (segregation). I like this technique because its a simple idea but had a great effect.

 

 

this is my most favourtie cover of the 3 mock ups i have created, I enjoy this because it is suttle, it doesnt show segregation full on but it has the idea and feel of being seperated; the people in the photo being confined and keeping them selves to them selves. this is the style and effect i want to create with my book cover.

 

this cover i think has a comic factor but deffinitly brings across being invisible, i also really like this because its creative and different from the normal type of image.

 

ED2 photo assignment 1, illustrive research.

I  have chosen to research the covers from the true blood series by Charlaine Harris but paticulalry the first novel ' Dead until Dark' because I like this type of photography and the feel of less is more. I paticulalry like the fact you don't have to see what the book is about or read a short synopsis on the book to know that the book has something to do with vampires because of the image portrayed on the front (fangs, blood dripping from mouth, pale complexion) the very small writing which says 'thou shall not crave thy neighbour' really sums up the book in one sentence and helps bring across the image.

The photographer of the true blood series is John Johnson (III). most of the cover images he has produced for the series are very similar to the one above they show that less is more and bring across a very good effect. 

John Johnson has also been the still photogrpaher for many covers of films, such as horrible bosses, letter to Juliet, Friday the 13th big mommas house 2 and big mommas: like father like son.


Another book cover I really like the style of is the book 'My sisters keep' I have looked at both the original(before the movie came out)and the cover with the film stars on. both are similar but bring across a different message.

This is the original cover and I prefer this one because it gives a vibe that you don't really know what to expect, the text  'the only way to save your daughter is to sacrifice her sister' says to me that the book does involve a child being sacrificed just for her sister, which is what the book is about. The way the child is lighting a candle and holding her knees shows she's alone which she is.

This cover shows Cameron Diaz who plays the mother, but I think this is a bad point to the original cover because the book isn't actually about the mother mainly the two daughters. also I think it is misleading because the mother and her daughter are smiling and laughing together when in the book they do not get along at all, similar to the first cover this one shows the same quote and still brings that message that you cant judge the storyline.

Michael Tackett did the still photography for the films which led to being the book cover, he is also known for other filmography of films such as the Cinderella story, piranha 3DD and Little Britain USA.

James Walker is a professional qualified photographer and does a lot of different styles, he has done book covers, architectual photography  aerial photography,travel,food, studio, portraits and weddings. he has done a bunch of books, but a few I recognize  are two by Danielle Steel 44 Charles street and answered prayers and one book by Martina Cole 'La Proie' I believe he has a very good way in showing a story within the one still image, as I havnt personally read these books I cannot say if they covers represent what the book is about but they all bring across different messages such as..

these both have similar designs and from the covers do not really say anything about the book unlike 'My sisters keeper' by Jodi Picoult the original cover gives a sense of a child being alone and trying keep what she has got by holding her knees to her chest (which is the plot of the book.

Where as I think Martinas book portrays many different things in that she could be the murderer by the gun she is holding, or she is unstable and people are trying to get the gun from her.