I really love pictures like this, even though it doesn't have the child in properly, it looks like a good professional photograph. The colours of the skin and the violin contrast a lot and make both of them stand out. The housestyle would go great with this violin because like the front cover model, he is posing with a violin.
- To improve I would cut the girl out the back, and focus the camera more on the front of the violin so the strings would be in focus and the rest blurred. I do like this close up shot. Maybe if I were to concentrate more on the front of the violin I could use a medium close up.
The colour of this violin is bright and I do like it. I would use this on the front cover or in my magazine even though it is a good quality image. This is due to the nail polish she is wearing, its just a nit pick of mine but I would have preferred if no polish was in shot. Also I don't know if its just the way the image has uploaded but it appears that the image seems too sharp and the strings look gritty.
This boy was amazing with the camera, he is really photogenic and he posed and knew exactly what I wanted to take a picture of.
Again, the colours of the violin compliment his pale skin and I do like the stance he is in.
The lighting could have bee better here however I wasn't working with a backdrop and amazing lights like I did for my other photos. This was taken in a corridor of my school with weak lights from above us and a white wall.
This picture is also one of my favourites. He understands how to hold the violin and makes it look authentic. Again, there is the issue with the lighting and everything could have been a lot sharper and more defined with lights.
I adore a lot of these close ups of the violin, I enjoy the detail the camera picks up even with the lack of light and a back drop. I I were to use this everything in the back ground would be cut out or blurred. The colours here are sharp, powerful and it really captures the grain, shape and beauty of the violin head. The angle also works really well, I am really impressed with these images.
The bow angle is nice and looks real. As a musician I can pick out the faults of him holding the violin - his hand should be further up and this is only an issue because if people are buying my classical music magazine, id hope they had knowledge of music so they could also pick this out and see the faults within it and see that this is not an authentic picture.
( the story that would go alone with these children 'playing' the instruments - or the headline - would be that they were the new age playing instruments and classical music was not a dead language in the world of arts and music. )
[ On my front cover, I decided to change it around a bit a try and make it look a lot more minimalistic due to how much text and images I had on the front cover. It looked so over crowded.
I asked 4 children from my school - 2 girls and 2 boys if I could take some images of them with some instruments.
These are the good images. Some didn't look particularly nice and some of the poses didn't seem to fit what I wanted for my front cover or for wherever I was going to place it in my magazine. ]
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