Photographs of my female solo artist!

I have now taken pictures of my female artist for my magazine. I will be using some of these pictures for my front cover, contents page and double page spread so it was vital that I took enough pictures of her in order to choose the best ones to place on each page. I dressed my female artist in black so that she could match the colours used in the magazine and create the image of rock. I dressed her in a way that the target audience would be interested in and their attention would be drawn to.


I started off by taking medium shot pictures and close ups of my artist that i would be hoping to use on my front cover. Most of these involved just simple pictures of her smiling just like the pictures iIfound of Hayley Williams. In these pictures there is a forest background as this is where the majority of my photos were taken so for the main image i had to cut the female artists out and place the cropped photograph onto a plain background. I had difficulty doing this at first but after a few tries i managed to do so.

If i was to use this image I would obviously be editing it to make it stand out more to the readers. I would be editing the eyes to make the colour more prominent, I would also do the same with her lips and hair. I would also be cutting her out so that there is no forest background so that it could be placed on a plain white/grey coloured background.


However I decided not to use this one as I didnt like the fact that her head was facing more to the right, I wanted a picture of her facing the camera more.

This next photograph that was taken was exactly how I wanted my female artist to be positioned. In this photo you can see she is facing the camera more and looking directly at it which is what I had planned that artists to do as it makes you feel like she is looking directly at you which will catch reader attention.


This is the photo I have decided to use for my main image as I feel this relates to the rock genre and clearly shows it. This is because she is wearing the types of clothes that the target audience would be interested in and these are also the types of clothing that many other rock artists wear (dark clothing).


Here are a few more images I photographed of my artist.

I really liked this image however I felt this picture was too 'smiley' for a rock magazine and was more likely to be used in a pop type magazine. Rock magazines dont usually have their models smiling too much.

Again for the same reasons as one of the previous photos I did not use this as the model was facing away from the camera.

I also liked this photo as the model was facing the camera directly and you can clearly see that the clothing the artist is wearing is suitable for the rock genre. I may decide to use this on my double page spread. If I did decide this i would again crop her out leaving out the background.

Before taking more photos of my female solo artist I decided to take a couple of pictures of the group of people that would pose as my rock band called The Mondays. These are a rock band that dress slightly 'Geeky' to be unique with their clothing and style, however they are still a ROCK band.

This is the photo I decided to use for the band The Mondays. However there were a few changes I want to make with this photo. I will remove the drawn on black spots on the member's cheeks and I will cut them out so I am able to place them on a plain background.

Another image I took for the Mondays was a picture of one of the band members that I am considering using for the contents page.

This is the image I decided to take of one of the band members from The Mondays. Above is the original image. Below I have removed the drawn on black spots and changed the artists hair colour to make her fit the genre even more. I may be using this on my contents page to represent the article of the band she belongs to.