Book cover for FMP/ location

For my Book cover I needed to get picture for my cover which involving finding a wooded area and a model.

This is the wooded are I use for my photoshoot, it's next to a field with other wooded area around the field with a park. It's along Newton Road which is where my nan lived so it was one of the reason I used this area.

Walking into the woods, it was safe because of the pathway, but trying shoot the picture I had to go off the path, which wasn't bad but I had to be carefully of the sticks and stinging nettle. Again this was the same for Conna (model). The area was near a motorway but there was a fence blocking the it since we were on a hill so it would have stopped us falling, but we weren't near the fence so we didn't need to worry about that.



This was the tree I used in my picture. I took this after the photoshoot, so you can still see  some of the fake blood on the tree. I choose this tree because the background was just right, you couldn't see any of the field or the park in the background, the other side of the forest there were fences and they were very visible.













This was the pentagram I made, It's really just a metal circle ring which I wrapped brown string around it then I used twigs from my nan's garden at use them to make a pentagram which  I superglued it onto the circle. My mum then tied the pentagram to the tree using the same string we used for the circle.

 I took two picture from differ angles and without the blood.























Then I took another two pictures with blood.

(Above, Is the one I used for my book cover)

The model in these pictures is my cousin Conna Webb, He helped out by dressing up as the cult for me and letting me take pictures. At the end of the shoot he was left with a red stain hand from the fake blood. I also had help from my other cousin Jenna (his sister) and my mum who help with the costume and cape and gave me some of their opinions.


BOOK COVER

BEFORE

AFTER 

For the first picture to look like the second the picture I had to use Photoshop to help with changing daytime to nighttime and to make the picture more darker so it actually looks like it was taken at night, then how to brighten up the blood and the pentagram on the tree. I ended up using google a bit to find tutorials for most of it. If I could do it again it would be that I take some portrait photos, would have made getting the cover size better.