Paparazzi Karess

Now that me and my group had decided on the title and genre of our magazine it was now time for us to carry out a photoshoot. unfortunately the group and i had not made a conclusion to our discussions on the style of image that we hoped to create in the photoshoot therfore we had the task to take as many photos as possible in many differnet areas around and outside of the college in order to get a variety of images to choose from for our cover image. Due to our magazine being in the grime genre there was no need for the group and i to change into different outfits as the dress sense of grime artists are much alike to how the group dress on a daily basis, this enabled us to save time and focus on taking images immediately. We began by taking a few practice images just so the group and i had the knowledge of how the camera worked and how well the images looked giving us a chance to change anything that effected the quality of the image i.e lighting, distracting objects in the shot. From there we began taking photos that could potentially be the main cover image, we went to locations in the college such as empty staircases and corridors, classrooms and benches. This gave us a wide range of appearances both light, dark, busy and empty. The majority of the images that we took had the two boys in my group modelling them as we thought that this would be more appealing due to the majority of grime fans being of the male gender, luckilly they where both confident giving the photos that edge and perfection that we needed for the cover image and as my job as the photographer i felt this made my job easier as i dint niiot have to focus on the models being 'camera shy', instead i could focus on the light and shadow used in the imgage. The group and i continued taking photos for 2 hours until the time that we had was over and we felt that we had a large amount of photos that would work as our main cover image, we felt that the photoshoot was successful and that we accomplished the task that needed to be completed but we would not know for definate if the images are as great quality as we need them to be until our next lesson where we would take the next step in completing our magazine cover.