Making changes to my front cover:

Once I had printed out my front cover, ready for the critique, I realised that there is some wrong and unprofessional editing on the models finger.

As you can see, around the fingers the layer is very visible and doesn't cover it properly.
I opened up the unflattened image and restarted this egg.







I experimented with using a real egg, photo shopping a kestrel egg onto the image, however I preferred the bright coloured eggs. This was because it fit in with easter more.











Whilst I was editing, I decided to use a lighter purple with a decreased saturation. The bellow image shows the improvement:















The next improvement on the cover, was the font. Many people said it looked unlike the magazine, this made me want to improve it.

Before:                                                                                               After:

I decided to use the font Courier new - this was because it was similar to the magazine and was less childish.
I experimented with using bold, shown below. However, I preferred the normal as it made the image the main focus.

I then experimented with changing the mini text below and changing the colour, I ended up using a light pink.
Shown in the final image below.

Evaluation:

State what have you photographed and what your work is about

For this task, I have photographed portraits under the theme of easter. I have created a front cover, suitable for the ID magazine. It has the wink, logo and barcode. It shows the model, holding multiple easter eggs over her eye. The location was the studio, which allowed controlled lighting and no distractions in the background. There was a pink backdrop, which i thought linked to Easter.

I also created two double page spreads. These had the theme of a darker, more punk easter rabbit. The first page spread shows a location of an urban, with a sign which stated 'PLEASE KEEP CHILDREN UNDER STRICT CONTROL'. I thought this added a ironic, humorous mood to the image. 

The other double page spread is based of two images, one being repeated a few times and the other being one black and white image. 

 Describe how your idea developed and changed if it did

I initially had holiday, and thought about summer. But halfway through my research i

changed my idea. 

List the equipment you have used and techniques you have employed

For this image, I have used my Canon 1100D. I used the studio and the lighting. 

I have used various editing techniques, such as adjustment layers and high pass. I also used free transform and rulers to create my front covers and spreads.

Explain the problems/challenges you encountered if any and what did you do to solve them

One of the main challenges with this assignments were that the first double spread mostly didn't fit with my other page. This was solved by doing different layouts and experimentation with images and text.

Briefly name and describe how two artists work have influenced or can be related to your work in some way

An artist that inspired me was  Lukasz Pukowiec, this was because his images were very rebellious and gave a different view to the easter bunny. This artist influenced me to make my models different and quirky. 

Another artist was Louis Vuitton, he inspired me to look at different outfits and locations. It also made me have a think about locations that added context to my images. 

Comment on whether you are pleased with your final piece or not. Consider if you did it again would you change anything

I am very pleased with my final pieces, however they are not very professional and I feel like i could experiment with some layouts and defiantly some work on the front cover, which I shall look at. The font needs to be changed and also the editing on my hue and saturation layes on the fingers and eggs. 

Experimentation with double spread layouts:

After I created the second double page spread, seen in figure 1, I wanted to experiment with another layout and image. I had edited this image when describing locations and really liked it, image 2.

Image one:    

                                                                                                

 

Image two:

editing: 

 I first added another image from a shoot after, the green image in the left hand corner.  however, this looked too unprofessional and just thrown on. I didn't like this, but wanted to add some text to see if it looked better.

For this image, I split the page into two and decided to have one image on each. I decided that on the left hand side the text was too small. Also the flipping didn't look right and there was too many lines. I did like the black and white photo next to the whitewashed image.

 Next I cropped the white washed image in half and removed the writing. I removed it so I could add more detail and specific sentences into the spaces.  The next try was to add it next to the black and white image.

Here the image shows both the images next to each other, the page does look good but is slightly too busy. 

This makes me need to think about the positioning and perhaps a border on the black and white image. 

I like the text as its a little bit of specific information. I will be keeping the left side of the image the same now. 

Here, I made the black and white image smaller, revealing a white border. This made the image less distracting and busy. It also gives me the opportunity to add text under the image. I think for this I will use one sweeping statement. 

This shows having an illustration of two eggs under the black and white image. 

I do feel like something should be under the image, but dislike this illustration.

I feel like it needs more detail or context. 

Here I tried having 3 easter eggs and tilting the outside two. 

I do like this however i feel to replicate the style of ID, i should have text.

In this image, it shows the text under the black and white image. Its simple and names the model and photographer. 

I prefer text under the image, compared to the illustration. 

Next, I want to try another statement and it in bold. 

Here I tried having a small statement under the black and white image. 

The statement really gives the viewer a sense of attitude and moodiness. 

I do like the normal font, however think that bold may attract the viewer more. 

Here, I tried the bold font. I really like this as it attracts the viewer and works well if you cover the left hand side. 

I feel like it could be a stand alone image, which makes it work well. 

This is my second final double page spread. 

^Final image: