Photo shoot for my Music Magazine

Similar to when producing my school magazine for my prelim task, after creating shot lists of possible images I wanted to take featured on my cover, contents page and double page spread, I actually finally carried out my photo shoot which took place in various locations that I believed reflected the style and naturalistic setting that would appeal to fans of indie genre magazines (explained in blog post about planning for the shoot). I planned the shoot for during 2 week break from school so that I could have unlimited time to take the photographs and also get a variety from more realistic and interesting places than the school grounds! When taking the photo's I used my own DSLR camera to get the highest quality photographs possible with what was available to me to get a professional looking outcome. I tried to think a lot about lighting (back lit, front lit etc) to divert away from over/underexposure in the photo's, even though as you can see below a few of them did not turn out the best quality.

Overall I took 198 photo's on the day which allowed me to have a large range of photographs so that when I came to choose my final images, I had a lot to choose from and made sure that they were the highest quality. I really enjoyed the photo shoot and I am really pleased with how the images turned out and the location and prop choices which brought the photographs together. I found the shoot enjoyable and because I use my camera a lot as I love the quality of the photo's that are taken when I use it, I found it quite easy to get decent images. Despite this, I had a few limitations/problems during the shoot such as the day the photo shoot was carried out was a really sunny, spring day and so I found it difficult at times to find spots outside that provided the right amount of light for a decent photo. Finally, the day I chose probably wasn't the smartest as it was Grand National day, and as the majority of the photographs were shot outside and in a pub (the Scotch Piper), it was difficult to find areas where there wasn't a lot of people becoming objects in the background of the photo's, however if one of my final images includes people in the background that aren't wanted, I can use photoshop while in the editing process to correct this.