02/10/08 photography session - Henok Isak

The lesson when we used the digital cameras to take pictures was very exciting. This session allowed our group to explore the different camera shots and how to make ourselves look professional in the pictures. We experimented many poses and identified the poses that would suit and be necessary for are genre of music for the magazine cover. We had to be careful where we took the pictures because if the background blended in to our clothing or skin colour, then it would be very difficult to cut out our pictures in Photoshop. We took as many pictures as we could so that we had a wide selection to choose from. We took group photos and single photos so that each member in the group could either pick a picture of themselves for their magazine cover or a picture of the group if they didn’t want a single picture of themselves to be on their front cover. I took many pictures with hand gestures so that my magazine picture wouldn’t look dull and boring and also because many professional magazine have the artist posing in a particular way. We went to many locations so that the background could even give an effect of the audience of the magazine such as my group taking a group photo in front of a brick wall so that it shows the social-economic class and status of our group and because it is aimed at that social-economic class.