Taking my magazine photos | equipment that I used

 When it came to taking my photos for my music magazine production, these pieces of technology were a godsend. Both the Canon camera and the iPad 2 by Apple were brilliant for taking photos and editing. Firstly I used the camera to take my photos. There were many advantages of using the camera, some of these included: I could place the camera on a still tripod, this way there was no hand held shaking to impact the images or make them blurry - for magazine photos it is best to take pictures with the camera as still as possible to create an accomplished effect. I could also zoom in and out with the flick of a finger and had great control over the intensity of the zooming and out. I noticed that the camera was much more efficient in keeping the quality of the images up to standard regardless of the depth of the zoom. Another positive point is that the camera was relatively small making it easily portable. In addition to this I was able to using various camera angles such as close ups, canted and eye level shots. The only issues I had with the camera was the importing of images. I would be lying if I claimed to not find it slightly challenging when it came to actually importing the images to my pc for editing. With the camera, the only option I had was to use a cable which occasionally failed to do the one job it is destined to do. I found on numerous occasions that the images would disappear from the camera photo album once the cable was connected. - This may of course have been a technical issue with my camera but, luckily I managed to overcome this small but mighty issue and the images were eventually uploaded to my laptop ready for editing successfully.

Next, I also used the iPad. Of course, this was not as brilliant in terms of photo quality, but it was excellent when it came to editing. When my iPhone ran out of storage space I was at peace knowing that I could quickly transfer all of my photos to the iPad which has the exact same editing software as my mobile phone. This including applications such as AFTERLIGHT, PIXLR & VISCOCAM which all enabled me to get my photos to a standard that I was happy with before the next stage of creating the magazine production.