Magazine Cover 2

Choice Sheets

If I were to choose a course I would pick commercial photography. I would pick this course because I already have my own camera but I would like to improve on my habits. The concepts of this class sound interesting, fun, and professional. In my future, I would not mind doing photography as a career, so this class might help me with the edge of becoming a photographer. I also would not mind spending time after hours to do projects. Staying after to improve or help has always been my routine so, it wouldn't be a problem for me. All together, I would choose this class.

Portrait/Self Portrait

Self Portrait

Portrait

Magazine Cover

Dan The Man 

Magazines

5 Websites

LENS FLARE

1. http://www.lightstalking.com/lens-flare

2. This website explained the technique of a lens flare. It examined the benefits and the flaws of the effect. All together, if you know how to mange your ability, you can create a great image with a lens flare.  

3.  There is a piece called a lens hood witch prevents lens flares .

I picked this photo because the lens flare added a piece to this picture that caught my eye. I like the view point the plant portrays. 

SPIN AROUND A BUILDING

http://fstoppers.com/how-to-spin-a-camera-around-a-building

This website put together a video tutorial on how to make a short clip. They showed how you can make the clip exact and illusive. Their purpose was to express different ways of capturing moments at memorable places. 

I witnessed a tutorial on how to make a illusion with a spinning building. The people that photographed or make the video are apart the Candy Glass Productions in which, produce films and photography.

I learned that there might be a way to make a gif. file in photoshop.

27 BLACK AND WHITE LANDSCAPES:

http://digital-photography-school.com/27-black-and-white-landscape-images

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This website contained photos of black and white landscapes. In some photos I can tell they used a long shutter speed because of the detail of the shot. Most photos have to deal with water and or fog. 

I learned that this photographer was hesitant at shooting black and white landscapes but, she gave in and started a collection.

I had chosen this photo that Darren Rowse has taken because I like the fact that he used a long shutter speed for the waves. In a way this photographer used a hint of depth of field to express the dock and endless waters. 

STORMS:

http://www.lightstalking.com/storms

I visited a website that deals with different landscapes with stormy backgrounds. The photographs vividly express the colors weather can produce. 

I learned that editor Rob, has a whole other collection of storm images.

This photo that Rob has edited was one of my favorites because he involved a prop the fits well with the stormy background. The hat is used as a rule of thirds. 

LAND SCAPE/ OUTDOORS SPRING:

http://forum.fourthirdsphoto.com/f37/spring-46051.html    Who took the 

On this website I studied the photo that this photo shot. The photographer used a long shutter speed to capture rainfall. 

I learned that you can convert RAW files into long exposures.

photo?

This was one of the two pictures displayed. This photo expresses the merging rule and was taken by the user from the website at the link at the top.

Magazine Part 2

Early Magazine Covers: 

Magazine covers in the mid 1700's has a straight forward Table of Contents with no art available. Through the 1700's and 1800's magazine covers looked more like a book cover, Bold title and a small illustration with nothing to describe what you will be reading about inside the magazine. The design or art value on the magazines were created with meaning, usually architecture. The cover rarely exposed what was inside the magazines. At times magazines only had a cover line, such as a newspapers. As time progressed covers began to gain more artistic. Later in the 1800's the magazines started to use bullet points to describe the content of the marines such as, literature and music, ect. 

The Poster Cover:

In the late 1800's into the 1960's magazine covers began to evolve. The designers were influenced by other artists and began creating covers that seemed valuable enough to hang on a wall. Later in the 1900's Magazine covers began to adjust their covers to the point of emphasizing their logos. Creating a trend, poster covers were used as the magazine covers. As art became more open, designers started using more vivid and detailed paintings for their covers. Evolving, poster began to symbolize important people with a bold title.

Pictures Married to Type:

Magazine covers began to be "integrated", meaning that the designer was trying to achieve equal relationships of symbols and graphics on the cover. Covers began to involve the heading to fall behind the main object in the cover, and titles and headlines were placed in attracting positions such as cover lines. 

In The Forest of Words: 

Cover lines are as important as the design. Cover lines began to fill the cover art. Designers began to use models to capture or lure in viewers. Cover lines also deals with personal situations that seem as if they can answer person questions. 

Best Covers

1) Steve Jobs: Formal
2) Love Resigns: Informal
3) Elizabeth Taylor: Formal *FAVORITE*
4) Sports Illustrated: Environmental
5) ESPN: Formal
6) She Is Just Way Too Old For This: Formal
7) Time Out Chicago: Formal
8) Mila Kunis: Formal
9) Grill Baby Grill: Formal
10) Ryan Gosling: Formal
11) Children of 9/11: Formal
12) Vanity Fair: Formal
13) Hope Solo: Informal
14) Wild and Wonderful Things: Informal
15) The Fashion Issue: Formal
16) Cleopatra: Informal
17) Yosemite: Informal
18) 9/11: Informal


"Time and again, readers turn to People for our take on the defining moments in pop culture—and this year, a major story was the death of one of the greatest movie stars of all time, Elizabeth Taylor. The iconic shot selected for the cover from the archives of famed photographer Philippe Halsman, taken when Taylor was just 16 years old, reminded fans of the beauty and grace that would often become overshadowed by her much-documented, tumultuous personal life. With few words needed, this People cover provided a truly worthy farewell to a legend".

- In this photo, Taylor has old apparel as in clothing, hair style, and make up. The viewer possibly has the idea that this picture has to deal with the past, relating that she is and older lady. As you read the title of the picture, it states that she passes away. The picture the has more of an antique or old feeling which can give the viewer a conscious mind that this deals with the past. The picture of Taylor is great, and her appearance is beautiful enough to make the view glance or read what is the story behind this photo. The lighting emphasizes the beauty of her face to symbolize her fame as an actress. The background of the picture makes her pop out more and gives the viewer and edge. 

The Quest For a Perfect Cover

5 THINGS I SHOULD BE THINKING OF:

1) Shoot or edit the photo to the point where the viewers attention will be automatically captured.
2) Will my cover be worth peoples attention/ money.
3) If I were to print out a cover and put it against other covers, would mine stand out or disappear?
4) Dose my cover relate or pull in my viewers curiosity more than before?
5) Is my cover interesting? Dose it promise "benefits"?

Photoshop Notes

Nestle- Tools are stacked on each other… To access those tools you have to left click and hold.

Command + (Zoom in)

Command _ (Zoom out)

Command o (Open)

Command c (Copy)

Command v (Paste)

Command z (Undo)

Command s (Save)

Command p (Print)

Image>adjustments>levels>

Channel Blue

Channel Green

Channel Red

Move black and white Hersey’s kisses

Channel RGB – Moved brown Hersey’s kiss (Lighter)

Crop

Always crop at 300 resolutions.

Don’t crop selectively, crop entire image.

To turn an image go to Image>Image Rotation>

CW and CCW

Cw= Clockwise

Ccw= Counter Clockwise

180= ½ rotation

Save as

Rename your image

Make sure the image is saved as a .jpg at the highest image quality

SAVE- you do not have to rename the image at this point. Save often and regularly