Taking photos for my magazine

For my magazine I decided that I would go into Birmingham city center to seek out urban photos that I could use for my front cover and contents page. I asked my three models to come with me as I could take photos as I walked around. I visited numerous parts of Birmingham, such as ikon, the custard factory, around the art gallery and the canal. This helped me to find different themes of the photos I could take and to use different features to help change my photos such as angles, lighting and props. However there are certain places in which I wasn't able to get to or wasn't allowed such as abandoned warehouses, the mailbox and around the think tank. In total I took around 100 photos, all ranging to have a wider variety of photos.

I feel that this was a successful visit as I have a number of photos I could use in my magazine. I have used a wide range of effects, like changing the location, the angle, shot and lighting to get a better effect. I also tried to change the camera settings to see if this would change the way my photo looked. However I thought it would be better to take original photos and then edit them the way I would like them afterwards.
 Here is a collection of the photos:

There are a number of photos I prefer in which I will more likely use, such as:

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Why these photos?

I feel that these photos are more appropriate for my magazine front cover inparticular as the majority of them include a direct mode of address, by looking at the camera making it more personal, also the majority of the photos include more than one person, which is what you are likely to see on a rock magazine front cover. Some of the photos which only have one person in the frame is to be included as a thumbnail image which could advertise posters. I will now start to experiment which is the best suited for my front cover.