My first full magazine cover

 

I used bold IMPACT to write with to draw attention to my magazine i also used faded shapes to highlight certain information to make it stand out more and used large numbers to do this also. i underlined everything and used a white text color to give the cover a professional look. 

My first attempt at a finalized front cover for a school magazine

My first attempts at a school magazine layout

My own made mastheads

Some ruff ideas on how I would like to see my masthead. Each one is unique and still draws attention to them.

Magazine templates

My first attempt at some templates for a school magazine, all including main image and title slots, as-well as contents slots.

Photography and what ive learnt so far.

Portrait Photography:

 Rule of thirds: By using the rule you gain focus the attention on a specific item of individual, the rule of thirds consists of spiting the screen of setting into a gird with 3 lines horizontally and 2 vertically, you then put the individuals eyes on a line or cross section this draws attention to them or the item.

Depth of field: Is another camera technique also called focus range or effective focus this is when you focus on one specific thing in say the foreground and the background becomes blurred or vice versa. This is great to really draw the attention to the subject in focus such as a individual or other. It also makes the whole picture stand out as it is a bit different and unique compared to a normal image.

lighting: I also learnt how to let natural and unnatural lighting into the picture and how to use it for different effects for example hard light vs soft light, so hard light will create very dark shadows and really stand out to the viewer whereas soft light is smooth and has very few shadows so it is just even and gives more of a clean crisper look to it.

Visual lead in: this is when an object or surface is used to guide the viewers eyes to the central focus point, this is a great tool which allows you to actually break the rule of thirds if you wish to  for example a bridge going along draws the attention to the middle section and also looks amazing when combined with the two previous rules above in some way.

Movement: now this was an interesting one as it was quite difficult to capture on school cameras as you can not alter the exposure however if you were to have a long exposure you could capture the movement of one thing while the still items stayed still obviously, this creates an interesting effect on light etc for example a highway if you were to set the exposure high you would capture moving lights but the highway would stay in the same place. However on the school cameras you would get very little blur to see the movement yet would get a clear image of the item or individual in that movement position. 

Subject/Model position: this is key and also applies to the rule of thirds however these again can be broken to make unique looking picture, however you also need to determine if the model or subject needs to be in the foreground or background and what focus you want. so basically all other rules can be changed dependent on this one rule.

Flicker lesson 2

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Flicker lesson 1

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