Taking the photograph (Music Magazine)

Taking the photograph

After i had done my designs i had taken several photographs, so that when i design my magazine i can use these photographs on my front page, contents page and double spread page. In these pictures i had made my model to dress up in a sort of hip hop genre cothing so it projects to the audience that this magazine is talking about this sort of genre music. In order to give the impression i made my model wear a hoodie and also have a bandana across he's face. By doing this i was hoping to give the impression that he's someone who looks like he's in a gang and that he projects himself as a rap artist. For the props such as the hoodie and the bandana was provided by myself, as these props i had brought in for my model to wear. The position i made my model stand and the actions i told him to do, i got the idea from how rap artist '2 pac' use to show himself as someone who believes in god and at the same time rap's. There was no make-up used in the photographs that i had taken as only props were needed for my photograph.

These are a couple of photo's i have taken:

These are my photographs taken by myself. The pictures was taken within a media classroom in my college.

In order for me to take my picture these are the following equipments that I had used:

· Canon Eos 400d Digital Camera

· Bowens Gemini Flash Unit with soft box

· Radio Trigger

Once my pictures were taken using the digital camera the photo was stored in a compact flash card so that I could use it to store onto my computer.When using the equipment I was under my teacher’s supervision for health and safety reasons.