Front Cover Contact Sheet And Evaluation

Above is my contact sheet for my magazine front cover shoot. This Photo Shoot took around ten to fifteen minutes to set up, take and complete. I only took 17 photographs as I knew exactly what I wanted my photograph to look like; my models also understood what poses and positions I wanted them to be in. I used natural lighting for this shoot because unnatural lighting would cast a vivid dark shadow on the wall behind, using natural lighting has also made the pictures bright with white lighting instead of a unnatural dim yellow.  

 As you can see, I made sure there was enough blank space at the top, where my title will be placed, and to the right of the models, where I will be putting my cover lines. I chose to use a plain white background as this is a conventional alternative magazine look and background, I also learnt from my prelim task that it is difficult to place cover lines around images if there is a busy background. I also took all of these photographs in a portrait orientation as I made the mistake of taking my large cover photo for my prelim front cover in landscape. Overall I feel this photo shoot went well, purely because the photographs turned out as I hoped and visualized.