Photography Tutorial Session:
Today, Tuesday the 22nd of October 2013, we had a photography session, teaching us how to use the equipment and Woking Colleges facilities, as well as how to explore our own skills as photographers and key aspects to consider and tips to keep in mind when taking our final photos for our music magazines.
Firstly, before all, in order to go about completing a photography session to gain our desired images utilising Woking College's facilities we are expected to book the photography studio by going to the Art Block and finding a teacher or technician to formally request a slot and period of time in which to use the facilities, from there we must approach our Media tutors and make them aware of any time we have booked into the photography studio.
The Photography studio etiquette must be revised before entering the room, this primarily includes having no food or drink in the studio to prevent costly damage, one must also refrain from sticking things onto the walls of the studio.
Some key tips and advice I acquired from this tutorial was very valuable to me, I gained an insight and brief knowledge of photography and how to really take photos and what to have in mind when doing so. One key tip was to not have the image going directly through the magazine as this wouldn't look attractive as on a double page spread, the page would be split in half and any image that is presented directly in the middle could be and would be distorted by the splitting of the page, as well as it looking irrelevant and unattractive, aesthetically.
Some primary things that we should always do when taking photographs, particularly of the models for our music magazine is to experiment with the depth of field and look at what different depths of field look like and what the depths of fields connote and represent and see if the connotations and representations of the depth of field we explore and choose reflect our music magazine genre and target audience, to see if it is parallel and relevant to it. This also applies to the mise en scene of our images, the attention to detail is absolutely vital and the background must be as relevant and appropriate and connote and represent the intended ideologies and stereotypes that the main focal images would do. For our main images the lighting, pose, models, clothing, gestures, body positions and quality of the images and camera is key.