Journalistic Inspiration:

One journalist who has particularly inspired my style of writing, to be featured in my magazine, is Polly Vernon- I find her wit and intelligence very interesting to read, and her insight is spot-on in terms of ideologies, and also humour:


http://twitter.com/pollyvernon

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/pollyvernon

Photoshop Experiments- Fish Eye Lense

Here I have used the 'fish eye' lense tool on Photoshop. It enlarges the image as though an actual fish-eye lense was used.

Photoshop Experiments- Curves:

Here I have used the photoshop tool 'curves' which can be used to alter the colour, hue, saturation or brightness of an image.

Anthem

Anthem will be a magazine based on quality music and performances from throughout the years, not on the latest crazes and music only around currently. Some new, distinctive music will be included in the magazine, but there will be a balance, unlike most other music magazines, who usually focus on one or the other. I think this will help me attract a wider audience, as well as a good reputation for my magazine. In terms of writing style, Anthem will be impassioned and well-expressed, using intelligent language (but lacking in jargon) to put it's points across.
Anthem's images will be professional, with well-planned themes, matching the texts that they accomodate- mostly black and white, or at least of a low colour saturation, the images will appear quite artsy.
I think that these features will help my magazine appeal to my ideal reader profile.

Images And Photographers That Have Inspired My Work;

These pictures and their photographers have all inspired my own ideas in some way. Annie Leibovitz, for example, is famed for photographing innumerable amounts of famous people, for very influencial magazine's. I find her photographs to be quite solemn, yet beautiful; she manages to focus greatly on expressions and postures without them seeming posed or awkward. These are some of my favourite images of hers:

As well as this, just by browsing various photo-sharing sites I have found many other images that suit the themes of my work:

These images are all black & white- This is what the majority of the photographs in my own magazine will be like; I think that black and white photographs give an impression of character and of greatness, which is something I would like to generate for those that I photograph. I think this impression derives from how, in the origins of photography, only the most important people would ever be photographed at all- all of these images would have been in black and white, so when seen today, they immediately create illusions of superiority. Some of these images are by accomplished photographers, of famous people, whereas others are simply taken by ameteurs, but still left a lasting impression on me at least.