Final Photoshoot

For this blog, I am going over a few of the photos from my photoshoot for my magazine. Included I explained the process, the issues I ran into, and what I wanted to capture through the image. Using my shot list, the process was much easier since I knew what I wanted to take a picture of and for what page. However, I had to adjust some of my original ideas from the shot list due to issues of placement and others. Despite this, I think my photoshoot was overall very successful because I got a good variety, content, and meaning.

While taking a picture of this art piece I ran into a problem since we (me and the artist) couldn't hang it because of its size, so we placed it on an easel. We set it in the hall to get a white background but there wasn't enough width in the hall to capture the whole image, so I decided to leave it in the art room and find the least cluttered space and blur the background. I think this photo ended up turning out very well considering the issues we ran into. I blurred the background using an app called "Touch Retouch" on my iPhone since my Photoshop was not working.

These photos were fairly easier to take. I cropped and adjusted the photo for the painting to fit perfectly in the frame and then added multiple settings through my iPhone to enhance the color and feel of the image. Overall, I think these images add to the content of the photos by adding professionalism and show Gustavo's, the artist, skill through detail and color.

I chose the photo on the left to be on the cover because it shows both of what I wanted to include: the artist and his work. I think the placement of everything fits very well with the format of the elements on the cover too. It shows him and who he is as an artist of color and captures emotion through 2 examples. On the right, I wanted to include a picture of him working on a piece that is not done yet to show what he uses and how he paints. You can tell this photo is not done because his signature is not on the bottom right. On the brown cardboard box, there was a text that wrote "FedEx". I thought it was distracting and took away from Gustavo and the work so using the same iPhone app "Touch Retouch" I was able to remove the text.

These photos encapsulate Gustavo's love for sculpting by showing a complete work and one in the process. The photo on the right was placed in the hall for display so that was not too hard to take a photo of because of the white background. However, the photo on the right was difficult to get a picture of because of the cluttered background and the piece was too heavy to move so I decided to take a shot over his shoulder to cover some of the backgrounds and show more of the art.