For my magazine i planned to do two shoots, one in a studio and one outside. For my studio shoot i decided to do test shoots before so that i could see the style of lighting i would need and also play around with using coloured filters over lighting to manipulate the effect used over the photography taking influence from saturated colours and neon themes found in my research on magazine covers. To show the type of cover i am trying to re create, i create a moodboard. Half showing the lighting i was wanting to create and another half showing the make up style i will be using when it comes to really shooting for my magazine. Creating my moodboards really helped to reference when i was shooting, as setting the lighting up to re create the influences on my moodboard i had the ability to look down and find a balance between re creation and new style for individuality purposes.
Once in the studio, i began by setting up the lighting using the model i would be using for my shooting my cover. I took behind the scene photos of what i was doing to show my process, i began with finding a good balance with just using studio lighting, surprisingly i found that just soft box lighting alone was really effective for giving me a spot light effect, which is what i was aiming to do for my real shoot as my model will be wearing glitter and that is what i wanted the focus of my cover to be.
On reflection i believe the plain black back ground and one spot light on the model is really effective especially if she has editorial make up on like i plan to do however i believe that a white background would look better with the colour theme that i am planning to do of blues. Unfortunately the white back drop was not available at the time of shooting this however i will use it when it comes to shooting for my cover properly.
To incorporate the neon style that i liked in my mood board, i decided to add coloured filters to the studio filters in use to manipulate the effects possible, i found this really effective also and on reflection i favoured this to my original plain back ground due to how successful the images looked. The half and half lighting was really effective, helping the creation of some of the magazine covers i had seen however i believe this will be too distracting from the make up i plan to do for my cover shoot therefore when it comes to shooting i will only use one colour to tie in this effect with these practise shots. I was able to manipulate the images by changing the direction of the filters used as well as the angle of the soft box lighting used giving the lighting a new direction which meant the colours met the model at different angles, giving this really cool half and half effect. As i want my images to be from half body and up i choose to head shots and up from my test shots as this will be relatable when coming to re shooting for my magazine as easy to re create if i need too.
As you can see from the images, these are the behind the scenes, i had two others to help with lighting as i shot as i could not do it all on my own . I believe that using these coloured filters worked well and will also look better when i get a chance to edit them in Lightroom for experimentation purposes to enhance the colours ensuring they are rich in saturation, i will also create a mock title page to show how i am aiming for my front cover to look. By commencing test shots i was able to create a mock of what my front cover could potentially look like, experimenting with colour as well as the lighting that i plan re use also really helped after doing so much research. Doing these test shots has also allowed me to understand the time scale i will need to shoot and edit before beginning my layout process, i came to the realisation that there are some issues i will need to work on when it comes to shooting such as the studio i plan to use will be booked out a lot as well as that i will need the help of a model and those when i am shooting therefore others may be busy when i am free. however i will ensure to plan before when our schedules are free and collaborate then. I also ran into issues such as not having a back drop and lighting wires being too short to work from where i was shooting but now i have done my practise shoots i know to book out the photography equipment needed and use extension cables if needed. I did shots using both a tripod and without, overall i found that using a tripod worked best for me and will use the same in my shooting as it was successful.
For my magazine i planned to do two shoots, one in a studio and one outside. For my studio shoot i decided to do test shoots before so that i could see the style of lighting i would need and also play around with using coloured filters over lighting to manipulate the effect used over the photography taking influence from saturated colours and neon themes found in my research on magazine covers. To show the type of cover i am trying to re create, i create a moodboard. Half showing the lighting i was wanting to create and another half showing the make up style i will be using when it comes to really shooting for my magazine. Creating my moodboards really helped to reference when i was shooting, as setting the lighting up to re create the influences on my moodboard i had the ability to look down and find a balance between re creation and new style for individuality purposes.
Once in the studio, i began by setting up the lighting using the model i would be using for my shooting my cover. I took behind the scene photos of what i was doing to show my process, i began with finding a good balance with just using studio lighting, surprisingly i found that just soft box lighting alone was really effective for giving me a spot light effect, which is what i was aiming to do for my real shoot as my model will be wearing glitter and that is what i wanted the focus of my cover to be. 
On reflection i believe the plain black back ground and one spot light on the model is really effective especially if she has editorial make up on like i plan to do however i believe that a white background would look better with the colour theme that i am planning to do of blues. Unfortunately the white back drop was not available at the time of shooting this however i will use it when it comes to shooting for my cover properly.
To incorporate the neon style that i liked in my mood board, i decided to add coloured filters to the studio filters in use to manipulate the effects possible, i found this really effective also and on reflection i favoured this to my original plain back ground due to how successful the images looked. The half and half lighting was really effective, helping the creation of some of the magazine covers i had seen however i believe this will be too distracting from the make up i plan to do for my cover shoot therefore when it comes to shooting i will only use one colour to tie in this effect with these practise shots. I was able to manipulate the images by changing the direction of the filters used as well as the angle of the soft box lighting used giving the lighting a new direction which meant the colours met the model at different angles, giving this really cool half and half effect. As i want my images to be from half body and up i choose to head shots and up from my test shots as this will be relatable when coming to re shooting for my magazine as easy to re create if i need too.
As you can see from the images, these are the behind the scenes, i had two others to help with lighting as i shot as i could not do it all on my own . I believe that using these coloured filters worked well and will also look better when i get a chance to edit them in Lightroom for experimentation purposes to enhance the colours ensuring they are rich in saturation, i will also create a mock title page to show how i am aiming for my front cover to look. By commencing test shots i was able to create a mock of what my front cover could potentially look like, experimenting with colour as well as the lighting that i plan re use also really helped after doing so much research. Doing these test shots has also allowed me to understand the time scale i will need to shoot and edit before beginning my layout process, i came to the realisation that there are some issues i will need to work on when it comes to shooting such as the studio i plan to use will be booked out a lot as well as that i will need the help of a model and those when i am shooting therefore others may be busy when i am free. however i will ensure to plan before when our schedules are free and collaborate then. I also ran into issues such as not having a back drop and lighting wires being too short to work from where i was shooting but now i have done my practise shoots i know to book out the photography equipment needed and use extension cables if needed. I did shots using both a tripod and without, overall i found that using a tripod worked best for me and will use the same in my shooting as it was successful.
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