Photographic Assignments: Discover Magazine

Another Photographic Assignments outing and another rainy day out in London. This time the location was Greenwich Observatory, and the assignment was to take a photo of the new Astronomer Royal for an article and cover for Discover magazine.

Without a real Astronomer Royal we had to depend upon the other members of the group to pose for us, so in this post you will see Pete who runs Photographic Assignments and Monica, my main study and a somewhat challenging one at that.

All shots have been taken without a flash or reflector, and only with the grey light of a dull rain soaked day. Despite these limitations I feel that the results are OK. Perhaps not perfect for Discover Magazine, which tends to go for a very graphic design centred design for both it's covers and articles.

As alway's I would like to know what you think.

 

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The first project can be seen here.

And the Photographic Assignment's site can be found here.

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Photographic Assignments: The Houses of Parliament

NB: There are a lot of grouped images in the post and I recommend that you view the original post, here, for an easier read.

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The second Photographic Assignments Meetup had a fake brief to take a photot for an article in the Independant Newspaper for an article about tourism in London. The photo should be of the Houses of Parliament and could either include tourists or not. If we opted to have a photo with no tourists in the shot then it should be a very strong photograph of the subject.

I enjoyed this shoot, but was soaked through by the end of it as it rained relentlessly for while I was trying to get my photos. Not being used to shooting in the rain, I found it difficult to get the shots I wanted and later on I found it difficult to pay attention to the brief at all and just went I did my own

 thing (see the photo of the London Eye).

Just a short update then, just two photos

The last project can be seen here.

And the Photographic Assignment's site can be found here.

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Photographic Assignments: Book Cover Project

NB: There are a lot of grouped images in the post and I recommend that you view the original post, here, for an easier read.

 

My photographic partner in crime, Monica, has been suggesting that I join a photography Meetup from the website Meetup.com for a while now but the idea of going on someone else's photowalk has never appealed to me as much as organising my own. However, when Monica told me about a Meetup group where people were mentored by a professional photographer on how to handle the photographic assignments you may get as a freelance photographer, then I was intrigued.

The idea of this Meetup, Photographic Assignments, is that each week we meet and reply to a brief set by a fictional employee. The first assignment was to create a book cover for a new Anne Rice book, a sensual vampire horror book, set over decades with a story that centres around London's financial district.

There was a fake Art Director (the Meetup's organiser, Pete) who requested that the image did not have any people in it and that it clearly contrast old London against new London as well as having the other themes of the story in it too.

Here are my efforts, there are several iterations of each attempt as well as the original images for each and a brief description of what I was trying to do.

 

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The main character of the story lived on Kings Road in the City, and this building is 20 Kings Road. I've cut the building in half and then mirrored it so make it look more pleasing, I dropped in a more dramatic sky and darkened it, upped the contrast and made it blue. In one version I've placed the Gherkin in the background and made it the same colour as the sky so it didn't detract from the building in front, I lost this in a later version as I'm not confident that it adds anything. I then dropped a aeroplane in.