Photography Analysis

This is the picture on the Front page of listen magazine. This picture is a Medium shot because you can see his upper body and his face. I chose to use this picture because if i had chosen a long shot picture people might find it diffcualt to see the artists face and might not have good vision. With this photo you can see his face and it is very clear. When putting this photo on the front page i did not have to crop and minipualte any photos because the background of this picture is black and i purposly made the background of my magazine black so i could just place it on there. The lighting on this picture is shonned on his face to make it  clear. The pictures i have chosen are almost model like because my artist is popular and even though the artist is ment to be from the streets it will be very common and stereotypical for him to be taking a picture on a wall or in an estate. Where my artist is looking it is almost like he is thinking, the connotations of the picture is supposed to make you wonder what he is thinking about.

This picture is on the contents page and is similar to the picutre on the front page but i chose not to use this one on the front page because you can not really see his face as much as the front page one. This photo is also a medium shot. This photo will be cropped round the edges because unlike the front page the contents page background is white. Even though it is good to have consistantcy in your magazine i would prefer to crop this photo out. The lighting is the same for this photo and is is shined on his face to give the audience an idea on where they should be looking. All the pictures i have chosen are in a studio. I like this picture because the artist is looking, the connotations of this picture is that he is looking to the future and where is he looking?. He is almost looking to the next page which gives you an indication to go on to the next page.

All of the pictures above are going to be featured on my double page spread interview with my artist who is named "AB". As you can see none of my pictures are long - shot or extreme close ups. I chose for them to all be medium shots because i think that long shot is just too far away for a double page spread and a extreme close up but to up close and personal to my artists face. I  chose these pictures because all of them show different sides to him. They show him being serious,calm and happy. Comparable to the front page and different to the contents page these pictures are not going to be cropped out. At the moment the background is black but if i decide to change that i may crop out the pictures so they do not clash with white background.
There is not a certain place were the lighting is facing, the lighting is shining on the entire body, the reason the background is black is because the light shining on him exceeds a lot.
As i said before i chose for the pictures to be taken in the studio to show that even though he did come from the streets he does not have to pose in an estate or be standing against a brick wall like i have seen in other hip hop and R N B magazine which people have made. The connotations of the pictures make you think to yourself ; what is he happy about?, you can see him smiling. One of the pictures shows him being serious, what was said in the interview to make him have a serious face?.


All the pictures are very similar which I like and purposely done.