Photoshoot

Blog 20

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           Today I did a photo-shoot with my model that is going to be Lily Rose. She came into school where there was a “studio” set up so I could take pictures and Photoshop them afterwards. Ellie (my model) brought in a few different outfits so I could get a range of photos. Unlike my previous practice photos I used a professional camera (which I don’t know the name of) and the quality of the images was 100x better. 

 This is a photo of me editing the setting on the camera to improve the photo. I changed the shutter speed to allow more of less light into the image. I changed the focus and the zoom as a perfect image that I like isn't down to luck.

Since my magazine is called “Vinyl” I decided to use a vinyl in my photos to represent the magazine as a Trademark. The vinyl is very hipster/indie hence why I have used one in my magazine as that’s my genre and target audience. 

The outfits I chose for my model also represent the indie/singer songwriter genre as she’s in a skort with bright palm trees on, with a plain grey top on. I like this outfit because it’s plain with a little bit of detail, it does look slightly “poppy” but it reminds me of something Lana Del Rey would wear on a photo shoot. From research on tumblr and pintrest skort's are very indie and are often worn with a plain top or a plain skort. I knew I wanted to Ellie to wear a skort because they’re all over tumblr and really in fashion with hipsters/indie fans. 

My photos turned out really well and I love most of them, I took a range of different shots in different outfits here is just a few:

I took a long shot with her in a skort, grey top and denim jacket – with frayed shoulders with her black heels on. This outfit is nice and represents the genre through the skort but mostly the denim jacket as many hipsters wear oversized denim jackets and the frayed shoulders make it look edgy and quite quirky.

I decided to make her hold the vinyl over her face as she looks dramatic and secretive, this would be for the contents page so it would make the reader want to know more about her and why she’s hiding behind the vinyl or maybe she’s hiding behind her music as she’s afraid of the lime light. 

Here’s another example of her hiding behind the vinyl but she’s not completely behind it which shows that she is all about the music but also wants the fame side of the industry. I really like this photo as her outfit is very casual as you can only see her grey top, this shows she’s down to earth and just a normal human being.

The last outfit Ellie wore was her black skort and denim shirt, this outfit just screams fashion tumblr to me as its very casual and looks very indie, she was originally wearing her black heels but I decided she should put on my pink buckled ankle boots because aswell as the skorts they’re very tumblr and I did some research and found a lot of different styles and colours on tumblr and pintrest so I decided Ellie should wear them to create a very casual day time look, creating the same effect that Ed Sheeran’s double page spread image gives. 

Here is a short video I made on Windows Movie Maker showing some images from this shoot.