5th Jan: Taking Photos on Set

Whilst filming at Groudle, I took a large number of photos which I intend to use on the digipak cover. As planned, I asked Jess to pose side on to make her appear  vulnerable and emotional, as expressed in the album’s ‘songs’, however for the majority of shots, I asked her to face forward s and directly look at the camera to give the impression of strength and healing. I took a variety of shots (pictured below):

These shots look very aesthetically pleasing and I intend to use one of them for my digital cover, and others within my website to create a sense of promotion for the album. 

The following three images are my favourites:

I like these images the best due to very subtle differences in pose and facial expression to other images. I intend to use one of these images on my digipak cover, one on the website and one will be used to create some artist merchandise eg. a poster. I will edit these images in the Photos application on my phone to enhance them.

Editing the images:

In order to edit the images, I used the pre-installed Photos app on my iPhone. This seemed like the obvious choice as I had taken the photos on this device. When editing, I knew I didn’t want to change too much, as I really liked the images in their natural state. I did, however, use the ‘Portrait Mode’ editing features, which allowed me to apply a ‘TrueDepth’ effect to each image. Having taken the photos in ‘Portrait Mode’ on the camera, it was very easy to alter the depth of the background focus:

I first ensured that the ‘Portrait’ effect was applied to the image, and then proceeded to increase the depth of the background focus all the way to the maximum f1.4.

I did this to all of my three favourite beach images:

Overall, the increased depth of these images made them look a lot more professional and keeps the viewers focus on the artist, whilst still allowing the visual, scenic background to be visible. I think these edits will be appropriate for my target audience as they make them look a lot more professional and centre the attention on the artist.