Today we did the photo shoot so we could pick an album cover image. We decided that we wouldn't want any props in the photo and that we would like just a straight forward beauty shot of her face. We used a lamp to create lighting and played around with the lighting in order to find the best way we could take a good photo. We tried taking some photos with the flash on the camera but decided that they didn't look as good as those without. We decided that the emotions on her face would be quite sultry because this fitted with the genre and music of the song for our video.
As we didn't have professional equipment like a proper backdrop, proper lighting, etc we came across many problems. We had many issues with the lighting as it didn't work out as well as we'd hoped, but we are going to edit the photo's using photo editing software Photo Shop, which I have, to make the pictures look better.
However, we had to make do with the resources we had, and decided to use a plain white wall as the backdrop so we didn't get any unwanted things in the image, this also means that we can easily change the colour of the background on photo shop as it's already plain. We had the luxury of being able to use Jack's really good Cannon Digital SLR camera, as it took very high quality photo's, so this would make the album cover look more professional.Also in a few photo's we used a green screen as this would make it easy to change the background all one colour.
Here are all the photo's we took, which are unedited and straight off the camera:
After carefully looking through all these images, we have narrowed it down to 4 that we like and we have edited them using Photo Shop in various ways and using various effects to make them look better.
Here are the before and after shots of the photos that we have chosen:
1) Before - Original Photo.
1) After - Edited Versions.
Changed the contrast and Lighting, so emphasized the shadow behind her. Decided to try this photo in Black & White so see what it looks like. However, we think that it looks a little bit plain.
In this version we have done the same as above, made the contrast more harsh and changed the lighting so it looks better. We really like the version as we like the contrast of the background between the black shadow and the yellow light.
2) Before - Original Version.
2) After - Edited Versions
Same as below, except just did a black and white version.
On both of these photos i added an artificial lightening effect on Photo Shop so it looks like only half her face is lit up. As you can see from the original we didn't get this effect with real lighting, so I had to do it with an effect.
3) Before - Original Photo.
3) After - Edited Version.
In this version, did the same as the first.
In this version we have tried something different by putting her image on the right hand side with a black background. This could be a possible image for the BACK of the album cover, as now there is adequate space of the track listing to go.
Here is a photo that we took when filming before which we are considering using:
The next thing that we are going to do is pick the final image for the back and the final image for the front cover and then start working on the font which the album name and artist name is going to be written in, and also what is going to be on the back of the album also.
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