Photo shoot and Main Image!

Aims:
For my photo shoot im planning on taking a close up photo of someone with good eye contact, as I think its most effective and draws the reader in. The clothes I want them to wear is dark colors to fit my genre of music. However I might make them wear something such as a hat or necklace to include some color without effecting the image. 

Contact Sheet!
This is my contact sheet from my photo shoot!

Thoughts on the Photo shoot!

My chosen photo: ----------------------->   

I chose this photo as it was exactly what I was looking for as the eye contact is good and the style fits with my genre of music very well. The hat she's wearing is also quite unusual and stands out which would draw potential readers in. However I think theres to much shadow in the face so I'll edit it on photo shop and also get rid of the back ground. 

Editing the Photo!

On photo shoot I edited the curves to try and make less shadow and make it lighter in some places, mostly around the face. By using curves it allowed me target specific places I needed so I could still keep the sections dark where I wanted them to like the dress and her eyeliner. This helps keep the 'rock' theme I'm looking for. However I think this has made the face look slightly red so i'll play around with the colour balance and put a small amount of blues in to even it out.

While I was changing the colour balence I jogged and added more blue than I needed but I thought it made it look for eye catching and now im planning on changing my original colour scheme to fit with it. I orignally wanted the colour scheme to be white, black and red, but now im making it dark blues instead of red.

I've also deleted the background using magic wand too and I smoothed out the edges so it looks a lot neater.