I chose to emulate the magazine Men's Health. I chose this magazine, because I personally feel that Enzo is a good example of a man that is in good health. To emulate the magazine cover style, I had Enzo do a similar pose that most of the models do in the magazine. The rest of the emulation came to how the magazine artists style the Men's Health magazine. From google, most of the covers had white backgrounds, so I used Photoshop to crop Enzo out of the gray background to a new white layer. The font style I used was Calisto Bold, because from personal research on the project I found out it is the font that the artists use or is close to it. To match their text style, I also capitalized all letters and varied the letter coloring to the coloring that they use in the magazine. I made the background color change for some of the text by using the rectangle tool. The bar code and Men's Health title were grabbed off of google images.
To make the picture of Enzo be well lit, a strobe light, modeling light and soft box were used. Strobe lights are huge lights that produce a strong and bright flash instantaneously. The Strobe light requires a great deal amount of power, and can be very costly. A strobe light allows the photographer to take pictures without relying on the lights flash speed, because it is so fast. Modeling lights are weaker, but are strong enough to help photographers preview where the strobe light will be falling on the subject. Soft boxes help modify light by direction and diffusion. It can be used to reduce shadows too. In addition to the lighting tools, a grey card, reflector and radio trigger system were used to perfect the timing and exposure of lighting. The grey cards allowed me to see if all colors are equally represented in the photo. With the grey cards help, a reflector was also used to reflect the light back to the subject so that both sides of the subject were equally exposed to the amount of light I wanted. The radio trigger system allows photographers to connect to the strobe light through radio waves and have it cast light instantaneously when needed for the picture that is being taken milliseconds after.
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