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Insight Magazine Photography
29/04/08
This is the process of how the cover for the summer issue of the Weymouth and Portland local community magazine 'Insight' was created.
Amongst the elements that the cover needed to include were 'changing of seasons', 'youth', 'local facilities', 'parks and gardens' 'spring colours - yellow, blue and green' and this is the idea that I came up with.
Originally I imagined a flash lit shot of a pair of legs from behind with sneakers about a foot above a row of flowers with the rest of the court and the hoop fading into soft focus in the distance but found that shot hard to realise and difficult to convince the editorial team.
(1) Settled for a more dynamic approach with a shot looking up from ground level with a wide angle lens.
(2) The background was distracting so the sky was cloned in around the player.
(3) Next the flowers, I shot these tulips on Weymouth Esplanade.
(4) Then carefully cut out and placed the flowers at the feet of the basketball player.
(5) Finally the text, copy and banner were added and all the elements were tweaked to achieve the end result including the adding of some perspective to the player to increase the drama.
The typography was created by my colleague Nicki Fitz-Gerald, here at WPBC
Hope this was of interest to you.