Here is a before and after comparison for the raw editing, I made the image a bit brighter as the projector wasn't bright enough. I then brought out a few more colours with the hue and saturation of the image and boosted the contrast.

I first created a duplicate layer in photoshop and flipped that layer horizontally. I then used the marque tool to select exactly half of the image.

I removed the selected area to reveal the layer underneath and merged the two layers. I then cropped the image to remove the black border that the projection didn't quite reach.
















I repeated the process as before and cropped the image slightly to make it more even.















To add something else to the image I decided to use a blur filter called tilt shift to add a little more attention to the centre of the image.

and finally i decided to boost the brightness just a little bit as fashion shots are generally very high key.

Visual Optimism is a fashion photography company that has done a lot of work with reflections. I think this will fit very well with my studio brief as I will be using digital reflections.
Here is a few examples of Visual Optimism.

 I believe they're using actual mirrors for the shots as you can see the edges of the mirrors and the lines aren't perfectly parallel. It also has a digital reflection straight down the middle. I really like this shot because of the use of both digital and real mirror reflections.

 This shot is just using mirrors and I do really like this shot too. I like it because for a fashion shot it works very well as it shows multiple angles of the same dress.

The shot on the left is using the same mirror set up as the first image by the looks of it. I also like this image because of the lines on the dress work well with the reflections and make guide lines leading up to the models face.







(Images from: http://visualoptimism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/upon-reflection-ava-smith-by-johan.html )

Final Magazine Cover.

I decided to re-arrange the text and layout to make the name of the magazine to stand out more and using a better font and colour that matches the image a bit better. Keeping to the same colour profile. 

For my first idea (skate magazine) I am going to use a studio style lighting (a flash gun) to fire shots of light at the subject and use some form of reflection using photoshop to create an interesting front page cover. I have already got the images using reflection and I'm going to experiment with different angles of reflection.

Irving Penn is an iconic fashion photographer and has shot many images for vogue magazine and for many celebrities  including Al Pachino. He's very famous for these kind of portraits but he also does slightly different and interesting portraits using camera effects

Photographer (Sam Cooper)

Sam cooper is a photographer that specialises in action shots (more specifically extreme sports) he often photographs professional skaters for big skate magazines like 'One magazine' his shots are often using a fisheye or a wide angle lens to capture the environment. He also uses large flash guns to light up everything and freeze the moment.

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For my reflections brief I am choosing to do two different subjects, one being skate photography and the other being fashion/portrait in the studio.

For my skate photography I'm going to photograph a couple skaters using flash guns and finding reflective surfaces that I can link to the brief.

For the fashion and portrait shots I'm going to be using the studio with different reflective props to create interesting and unique images.