I decided to take a number of test shots to experiment with composition on my front cover: I wanted to use these photos for practice front covers, one of them being the simple version and the other being the more busy front cover with a lot more graphics and text. Although these photos are not the brightest, for the photos I use on my final front cover will be brighter and this will give me an opportunity to experiment with photoshop and edit my photos.
In this first photo i intended to leave space at the top for a mast head; I also wanted to leave white space at the bottom, underneath the subject to place a graphic of the only text being shown on the front cover. Unfortunately I was unable to do this as we did not have the facilities of a studio to achieve this outcome although I intend to use the studio for my final shoot. Below is an example of a photo I took which left space at the bottom to leave space for the text i'd like put in, you can tell that it is not successful.
In this third photo I really like how the subject is looking directly into the camera, interacting with the audience. This has helped me decide that I want the subject(s) to look into the camera as it results in a more effective outcome and I feel it connects more directly to the audience. I now know that all my photos for the front cover will have to be portrait.
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