Photo development

All the images I have taken and considered using I have edited using Adobe Photoshop 7, as magazines of any sort rarely use unedited images as they obviously look better afterwards. My photo's consist of "musicians" without instruments as I feel that the generic "band photo" with all memebers posing with their guitars at the ready etc is generally dated, unless is it from a live performance or taken subtley, however I have chosen to follow the conventions of now and excluded all instruments.

It has come to my attention that alot of promotional band photos often only feature the better looking frontman/woman, are usually staged to some extent and in the female-pop-icon case seem to be off-center and slightly edgey/quirky but still attractive. The following images are a few examples:

Ladyhawke

Florence and the Machine

Katy Perry


This set up is not only modern and seems to be a classic/convention
Blondie, 1977

Debbie Harry (Blondie) 2008


The following photographs were potential front cover material, I have edited each one to be suitable to feature as part of a music magazine.
Each one has had the lighting, colour and focus altered as shown below in some before and after comparisons and print screens.




These following images were considered for the double page spread.

I nearly used this photo and edited it, ready for text, then edited it again to make it look more gritty using black and white and darker neutral tones to create a contrasted effect without losing some of the tones around my sujects face preventing it from looking flat.

I eventually chose not to use this photo because she looks ultimately miserable, and that is not the look I wanted to achieve.




This was another image I edited to try out but still felt it didn't work as I preferred the above layout where the suject was closer up and took up more of the page. I have also decided I prefer colour for the double page spread.