1. Photo Shoot Review
Unit 57: Photography and
Photographic Practice
Task 4 Selection of final images &
review

2. Aim of Shoot
• I’ve taken a variety of
photographs to produce a music
magazine, I did this during college
and tried to make my photographs
as music based as I could. To do
this I added different instruments,
mainly guitars, into my
photographs. I tried a variety of
different ways to show the ‘music’
look for example I tried the ‘girl
band look’, ‘boy band look’, ‘indie
look’ and an ‘acoustic look.’ In my
opinion I think the acoustic look
worked best out of all of them
because my music magazine is
going to be about an indie
musician and me interviewing her.

3. Description of shoot
I planned a Photoshoot and then used a few of the
girls out of my class. I learnt about different
techniques which I could use in my Photoshoot. I did
this Photoshoot at the three sisters. Once I’d taken
this photograph and chose which ones I wanted to
use I edited it on Photoshop, I wanted the
photograph brighter than it oringally is so I tried
different filters and then turned the brightness and
contrast up and down until I got the result I wanted. I
tried different settings like classrooms, photography
studio, radio studio and the three sisters. This is the
setting which I think worked best. I like the angle on
this photograph, I think it gives a really good view
because a lot of band photography just use straight
ahead photographs or live photographs.

4. Editing effects
This is one of my final edited photographs, I
like the colours on this photograph and I
think it works really well. For this photograph
I messed around with the colours of the
background, I wasn’t trying to edit it in any
certain way like my other photographs I was
just messing around to try and get the
photograph a colour I liked. I’m not sure
about Beth standing their with the guitar in
this photograph, but I love how the
flowers/bushes looks around Beth, I think they
look better purple than green. I found doing
this really easy.

5. Editing effects
This is another one of my final edited photographs.
I edited this on Photoshop.
I went into the filter gallery and tried different
ways to edit the photograph, I found a few I liked, I
chose poster Edges because it was my favourite.
Once I chose the filter I wanted I turned the edge
thickness up, edge intensity down and
pasteurization up. Then I turned the brightness and
contrast up then once I got the photograph how I
wanted I saved it.

6. Capture log
• Setting: The three sisters way.
• Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec.
• Aperture: F/5.6
• ISO: 320

7. Editing effects
This is my favourite photograph out of all the
ones taken unedited, so I tried editing this in
a variety of different ways (another edit show
on other slide.) This was my favourite final
edit of this photograph. To do this I went into
the filter gallery and tried different ways to
edit the photograph, I found a few I liked, I
chose sumi-e because it was my favourite for
this photograph. Then I turned the exposure
up, offset stayed the same and the Gamma
correction slightly got turned up.

8. Capture log
• Setting: College photography
studio.
• Shutter Speed: 1/1250 sec.
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 1600
I added a new layer and changed the background to
black, and then on the actual photograph I cut
around the model. I dragged the model onto a
new layer and then deleted the actual
photograph. I brought the model in front of the
black background and then I added a lens flare.
I like how I edited this photograph and think it
would work well in a music magazine or a
poster, so it does meet my target audience’s
needs.

9. Editing effects
This was one of my first edits which I did
from the whole of this Photoshoot, this is
one of my favourite photographs. I like
how she’s jumping in the air, this is a
very common pose which is taken for
music photography. It’s usually during
performance this is taken but I wanted to
change that in my Photoshoot so I tried
it in a college car park/ entrance. I
added a photograph and then I DE
saturated my photograph on Photoshop.
Then I chose the history brush tool and
put colour back into Beth and the guitar
on my photograph. I had to change the
brush size throughout this and zoomed
in and out to make sure I didn’t go out of
line.

10. Capture log
• Setting: college photography studio
• Shutter Speed: 1/1250 sec.
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 1600
A lot of music photographers take photographs like this but I
wanted to change the look of the photograph because I
didn’t like the background on it. I cut around the model
and copied her onto a black background on photo shop,
Once I did this I used the pen tool to make a path on the
photograph making a spiral around the model, I did this
on a new layer. Then I right clicked on the line and chose
stroke path and then I changed the tool to brush and
selected simulate pressure. I then selected the foreground
colour and selected yellow. Once I did this I right clicked
on the new later and went to the outer glow tool and
changed the colour to pink, this made the spiral a pinky
yellow colour. Once I completed the spiral I wanted to
make it have a 3D look so I did this by deleting the path
and then I used the eraser tool, rubbing certain lines out.

11. Editing effects
This photograph was taken while
she was messing around, It wasn’t a
planned photograph I think these
natural photographs work better
than planned. It shows how much
she loves music which is what
music photography should be
about. I edited this on Photoshoot,
it was an extremely simple edited I
turned the photograph black and
white and then turned up the
brightness and contrast until I got it
how I liked it. I think this
photograph works really well in
black and white.

12. Capture log
• Setting: Three sisters
way.
• Shutter Speed: 1/1250
sec.
• Aperture: f/5.6
• ISO: 1600

13. Rejected Images
I think this would have been a really good
photograph if it wasn’t slightly blurry when opened,
also if means head wasn’t cut off. Also the
background doesn’t really go well with the
photograph, I don’t think it’s obvious what type of
photography it is. To me it just looks like a group of
girls messing around with a guitar.
This photograph is out of focus, I think if it wasn’t
out of focus it would have worked well. Also the legs
in the three would have ruined the photograph it’s
obvious they wasn’t meant to be their, but they could
have been cropped out.

14. Aims for next project
I have learnt not all settings work well with every shoot also that
I need to think about if the photograph will work before just going
and taking it. Also to take as many photographs as I can do I have
a variety to work off. I’ve also learnt how to edit photographs in
different ways especially editing with light effects.
When I do my next shoot I will improve my photographs by trying
a variety of different angles, techniques and settings, you can
never have too many photographs. Also I will edit more
photographs during the editing stage so I have more edited
photographs to work from instead of having to ‘rushly’ edit
photograph and them not being at professional standards.

15. Final Images
I think this is a really good angle and the setting make the
photograph. A lot of music photographs are the ‘same’ and I think
this is different to others. Also the photograph is obvious that it’s a
music photograph. It can also tell a story for example a lot of artists
have their ‘special place’ where they play music without everyone
around this could be hers? I could improve this photograph by
editing it in different ways and see which works best because I think
it could be edited in a different way. Even though I do like how it’s
edited. I tried this photograph with different techniques but I
preferred it simple. For example I took a photograph while she was
in the tree using depth of field and rules of third. I do think it would
be a great edit if the photograph was edited so it just focused on the
guitar because that’s the main object which makes this type of
photography obvious.
I like the angle of this photograph and
also the background, it works well with
the music photography genre. The main
focus in this photograph is the guitar, a
‘usual’ music photograph is a front view
of the band but I think this angle works
well. I also like how I’ve edited this
photograph, I think it looks good with a
darkish look. The background is slightly
blurry I tried to blur it out as much as I
could when taking this photograph
because it would work well. I don’t like
how this photograph could be for
something else for example it looks a bit
like an advertisement for converse. Even
though I like the edit it has an
‘instagram look’ which does work well
but I could have edited it better.