Reflections

Introduction
Working in the studio gives you the opportunity to not only develop your camera skills and creativity but also to engage and interact with various technical equipment and methods. Studio photography is constantly used throughout industry environments, especially within fashion, advertising and fine art photography. Professionals know and understand how to work in the studio and how to use the controlled lighting to assist and enhance their photographs. This brief will enable you to experiment with various studio techniques and equipment. Ideally you will be exploring inventive and technically challenging set ups and using lighting to create visual effects.  

Task
You are required to produce a magazine cover suitable for professional output. The magazine context is your choice, it might be fashion, film, music, cookery or lifestyle etc. However you must theme your photography to the title reflection.

                                      Fashion magazines
As you can see fashion magazines have a theme going through them. the theme is a model with the latest trend on/ make up, the title is at the top of the page, the models heads are going through or behind the title and they have writing somewhere else on the page. You can also tell by looking at all these examples they're all done in a studio. this is a theme i saw recurring through them when i was researching. so magazines that are popular in this industry are ELLE, VOGUE, BAZAAR etc...

         Music magazine
These magazines are just the same layout as the fashion magazines the difference between them is that music magazines have much bolder writing and the colours are a lot stronger colours, a colour that i have noticed has been used on the majority of the magazines is red, but there was the odd few that didn't. On the music magazines they also don't use models they use music artists on the cover of the magazine. These photos where obviously done in a studio.
                                       

  Movie magazine
Again you see the heads through the titles of the magazine. This is different to the other two because it uses a darker background and has a bit more writing on the front. they use pictures either from a scene of a film or they would take it in a studio, or in some instance they would use a green screen. They don't use models, they use the actors out of the movies.

Sports magazines
You see the heads through the title again in these types of magazines. These magazines have a lot of oranges and reds in them. There isn't as much writing on the front of the sports magazines compared to the others. With these magazines they're even taken in front of a green screen or in action of them playing/fighting. Again they don't use models they use loads of different sports stars depending on the sport it is about.

Cooking magazines
This magazine is different to the other ones because the title is on a plain background and the picture is underneath. This magazine cover is pretty basic on all of them there is a basic title, writing down the side and a photo with no writing over it. these are all done in the studios.

Photography magazines
This type of magazine has things going through the title but not just a standard person it can be animals or anything. A lot of the magazines have people on but some have things to do with animals on. These magazines don't have a specific theme through them just the bold title. And with some of them they have cameras on. If they're wildlife photos they're obviously not done in the studio they're done outside. But if the photo has nothing to do with wildlife then it is most likely done in the studio.

Nature magazines
This type of magazine is very basic it has a title, a picture and very little writing on the front of the magazine. With this type of magazine you could have nature meaning animals or meaning landscapes or flowers etc. It is a wide variety of different things. Because it is nature it has to be natural so this is not the type of magazine you would focus photographing in a studio it is all about wildlife.

Gardening magazines
This magazine is based of plants and tools to do with gardening. If it is a photo of a plant someone is taking it could be taken in a studio. In these types of magazines the flowers or whatever it is don't come in front of the title they always go behind. They have quite a bit of information on the front of the magazine. 

Conclusion 

I conclude that if the magazine has a model or a animal on the front of the magazine then the model or the animal would be in front of the title this usually occurs in fashion, music, film, sports, photography and sometimes nature magazines. I have also noticed that in the fashion, music, film, sport, cooking, photography and gardening magazines can all be photographed in studios. On some of the magazines when i was researching I worked out certain types of magazines have types of colors that they use. Also that depending on the type of magazine depends on how much writing os on the front and how it is placed.

Different types of reflection
Reflection photos have a whole lot more going on in the frame than other types of photos. They double the elements and colors, they are more dramatic, and provide a balanced composition.

Light reflection
This is a photograph taken in a studio and the reflection in this photograph is the lights reflecting off the skin. or in the picture of the film you can see hofw the light shines through it  so you can see the layers of the film. But also the light makes the film reflect a glow around it.















Natural reflections 
These occur in nature such as waterscapes. An example of a photo would be a cityscape reflected on a river, or a group of birds reflected on a pond. It is created by something reflecting in a lot of water to create two pictures in one.











Surreal reflections
 These are the hardest to notice since they require an artistic eye. An example of a photo would be the Eiffel tower reflected on a puddle of water on a rainy day.

Abstract reflections

 These show colors and lines without revealing what the reflected subject is. An example of a photo would be a colorful building reflected on water, showing wavy lines and colours.