Creating the cover " The beginning"


     When creating the cover of my magazine i took into account the types of photographic techniques when choosing the picture for the cover and any other modifications that I added to the picture afterwards. Before I even touched Adobe Photoshop or Indesign I wanted to capture a picture that could show some sort of resemblance to the financial world of investing and fiance. One picture that I captured when driving around the extravagant neighborhoods of Brickell in Miami was of the TD Ameritrade bank. The technique I decided to utilize was an establishing shot of the whole bank with the fancy buildings in the back towering over the scenery as well to show that the bank is in a metropolitan area. In addition to that when choosing the camera angle I included a slight tilt to the picture in order to almost imitate the same movement a tourist would do when looking at at a large building in a big city. This emphasized the importance of the building and that it is not just any regular building. The whole purpose behind my magazine is too create almost  sense of extravagance and aw through the use of luxury within the world of finance and investment..
     The picture was not perfect. It had many obstacles in the way that did no relate to y magazine one of which was an electrical box or transformer that is usually scene around business and office buildings. In order to remove that I decided to push the picture down to expose more of the beautiful skyscrapers and less of the ugly and not visually pleasing aspects of the picture.
     The research I conducted when creating my magazine came from me coming together with my group and passing over ideas about which images could really describe finance and investment. We discussed ideas about having large amounts of money in our magazines because we saw these type of images on some of the covers of Money magazine and Kiplinger as well. To be specific Money Magazines " How To Reach $1 Million" has many hundreds of bills in the cover. In addition the Kiplinger series also has this type of image. where money is shown and that is "Be The Better Investor" cover.  At first based off my group I wanted to place a picture with an abundant amount of money but do to lack of resources I decided that a picture of a bank would fit my needs better and still convey the same message that i wanted to have originally

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