Production - Cover Image

 Hello everybody! In today’s blog post I will be getting the cover image for my magazine brief. So what are we waiting for? Let’s get into it!

Sooo…. A little secret, I may or may not have already found an adequate photo for my cover that has nothing to do with my planning, and I know, I know that’s exactly what the 3 weeks of planning were for, but it was just too perfect to pass up.

In my plan I originally wanted to take photos of cheesecake in multiple different shots and pick out whichever looked best, that was before I found out that cheesecake is like 17 dollars, which is insane. So as I was mindless scrolling through my photos I found the holy grail of food photos 

Look at it, it has a rainbow adjacent color scheme (which always looks nice when done right) and is contrasted with a not as vibrant background, a diagonal composition, natural, even lighting, and an environment behind the hero. It’s everything I need it to be and it wasn’t even on purpose. 

I took it at some pop up cafe a few months ago (to add a little context), but I never thought this would be its first major use. 

As great as it is, it definitely needs some tweaking, mostly to get rid of the hands in the photo. They aren’t arranged in any pleasing manner and add some unnecessary contrast.

After a few changes I got this: 

Originally I just zoomed in and got rid of most of the hand in the photo (the little fingers peeking through at the bottom will be dealt with a bit later don’t worry), but then I thought, this image looks a bit more washed out than I thought, so I went into the photos app and kind of just messed around until it looked how it is now. 

I think it looks nicer without showing that it was scrubbed with filters, but if it ends up changing it means I was told it was to much. 

Reflection

This post showed me the importance of using what’s at your disposal because had I not found it this post would have been a lot more tedious and time consuming, so I’m glad I found an alternative. In my next post I will be putting the masthead and the stripline onto the photo seeing how well my chosen color palette actually works, I’m hoping to have the cover and a little of the table contents done by the end of this week, so I hope this keeps me on track.

See you all in the next post!