These photos were taken of the main character in our piece. They are taken from behind with her looking back at the camera to make it look as though she is running away. This style of shot was the closest we could get to an action shot as when we tried to make her actually run and take the photo, they all came out blurry when put on the photo editing package. They do not look blurred in the camera playback, so it is the resizing of the image causing the problem.
Although we liked this idea and started a rough mock up as seen above, when putting the photos on the editing package and starting to make the magazine cover, we realised the shot felt more like poster photos. We feel that the poster will be able to put this image in some kind of context, whereas the magazine cover won't have the space to give it enough impact or explain the facial expression and pose.
After realising this, we checked through other photos we had taken, some of them were out of focus. The close ups we had done were not of a good standard and this is why we took more. We believe that the lighting was the main reason for the photos being out of focus as we could not find a setting on the camera that could cope with a dark room and bright torchlight at the same time. This is why when we took the new photos, we did not use torches to light up her face. Instead, we used the lighting from a bright coloured wallpaper on the apple mac and put it close to her therefore it reflected off her face. This resulted in the photos coming out really well and they are the new photos that we are using for the new magazine cover. We feel that the choice of a close up is more impactful for the cover which relies on the one image to get the message across and therefore that image needs to be really striking.
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