Yesterday we went into the drama studio to take photos of me and Jamie (the band members) which will be used in the digipak and advert.
We set up a portable white screen and borrowed a SLR camera from the schools photography department. Using this along with all the lights in the drama studio allowed us to create a really professional look. At the start we did find it difficult to get the lighting right because we were trying not to create any shadow on the white screen. We managed to solve this problem by aiming one of the lights behind the subject and just onto the white screen. This meant that the subject was no longer blocking out all of the light from the white screen.
Another problem we encountered was that, when trying to take a photo with me and Jamie in the shot at the same time we were not able to frame it as we wished. We were trying to get pictures of us from just the waist up and so thought it would be better to photograph each one of us separately and then merge the two photos of us together using Photoshop.
When we were taking the photos we were aware that we would need to edit them in Photoshop. It was for this reason that we took them in the RAW mode on the camera. This means that the camera doesn't turn the photo into a JPEG file, instead it simple remembers the photo's raw data meaning it can be edited whilst still remaining good quality in Photoshop.
Overall I think that the shoot went very well and we have now got good enough photos to use n our digipak and advert. Some example of the photos we took can be seen below:
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