Evaluation

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.