Evaluation: Album
cover
Before I started taking my
photos for my album cover I had to learn how to use the correct camera
functions. Firstly we learned how to set the F stop, ISO and shutter speed,
After that I first set the shutter speed to around 1/25 second and I then set
the ISO to 400 after I set the ISO up I then went on to the F stop I set that
around 5.2, I was using a 50mm lens for the portrait because this is the right
focal length. After this I made the decision to try it at different shutter speeds
to see what the effects it had on the photo it made me more confidant with the
camera and getting to grips with the functions. After I finished taking the
pictures of the idea I had in my head I looked though them to see if they was
in frame and not blurry or out of focus, some of the photos was blurry and out
of focus so I retaken the pictures again to try and get a better result, I then
went though the pictures to make my decision in the end for which one to go
for.
I picked this certain style
of photography because it’s elegant but yet it makes a bold statement with a
classy twist (the twist being high fashion). After taking inspiration from
various album covers like Adele and Lady Gaga I decided to stick with the black
and white after looking over all of the photos I stuck with the portrait image it
worked better then all of the other images I had taken. It looked great over
all after I desaturated the colour, the contrast of the colours are varied its
not bland and has a good depth of filed. The shadows fall nicely because of the
lighting on the shoot I used high key lighting so we could see the girl and
what she is doing within the frame.
The historical context of my
photo relates to pop culture. I wanted to brake the conventions of a standard
pop album cover, pop music has been put into this category where we have to
sort of stay within bounders where we just see the artist featured on the album
cover I wanted to do something different and make it interesting. I tried my
best to capture correct emotion as my photo represents a memory. The emotion I wanted
to get from this is about when we go out to pursue are careers and go some
where we leave a loved one, are family and friends behind but we still have
that memory of being with them and that’s what I wanted to capture. I think it
came across quite well I think it has a strong emotion behind it we can see
this by the way the girl kisses the manikin and has her eyes closed so it makes
her look passionate. I also wanted to bring society into it I wanted to show
that everyone is different why should we care of what other have say and how we
judge someone.
