Putting it together

"Bit by bit, putting it together. Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art." ~Barbara Streisand

While Barbara Streisand was referring to the art of the liberal arts, this saying applies to Relatable; throughout the entirety of this journey for my foundation portfolio, I have been building up my magazine piece by piece.

So, while my issue is not complete, I have all the missing pieces and Relatable is nearly finished. Again, as a thank you, here is a few pictures of June Relatable

Putting all of this together makes me feel a sense of accomplishment, looking at how far I've come!

Tell me a Story

"After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are what we need most in the world." 
             ~Philip Pullman 


Hey bloggers, me again with another update.

Aside from the beautiful images that successful magazines' contain inside of them (because honestly, I choose a magazine for its photo content first) they are also filled with interesting and intoxicating articles that viewers hook onto from word one. This plays a role in the article I plan to write for my double page spread of Relatable... except it won't be an entire article.

Not all stories are set in a standard paragraph by paragraph stature, flowing from one point to the next. What I plan to do will give Relatable style and character, making it differentiate and stand out against competition. As I said above, pictures are important, so I thought, hey, why don't I focus on that and write excerpts for each article of clothing and/or accessory featured? It was a good idea... it still is  a good idea... so I'm going to use it. 

When I was away on my trip north earlier this month, I traveled 'far and wide' to many different stores. While still cold in the snowy northeastern region of the country, their upcoming styles are not: several sun hats, rompers, dresses, and, of course, Swell bottles could be seen left and right. So, being the great photographer that I am, I just had  to take pictures of these garments/accessories and use them for my magazine! 

So, as a gift to all of you for being so supportive throughout my journey, here's a sneak peak of some of the photos I plan to use for my double page spread! Hope you enjoy.

Say Cheese

"Cheese tastes good." ~me

While I very much enjoy a wide assortment of cheeses, this post is unfortunately not about literal cheese. Instead, I will be talking about my photos of my model Sanjana.

It was a Sunday, 12:00 noon on the dot when the doorbell rang. Santana was at my doorstep, ready to shoot some photos.

The first picture I shot was for my cover. On my cover, I had envisioned a bathing suit shot, tying in with the summer theme. I had Sanjana try on a few bathing suit tops, option for her to wear jean shorts on the bottom to prevent accidental inappropriate content (because we don't want that). In the end, the picture came out just the way I wanted: after playing around with lighting, I got the image of Sanjana outside lying on a beach towel.

The second picture I shot was for an adjacent page to the table of contents. For this, I planned to have a more formal look with a cute romper. I took several shots of Sanjana at different angles, some in standing poses and others lounging on a picturesque lounge-couch. I still haven't decided which shot to use for my magazine, so I will be playing around with a few of them and choose whichever looks the best on the page (I have a feeling it will be a longer, vertical shot though).

The final picture I shot was for my double page spread. For this, I not only wanted the camera to be closer to my model and capture an over the shoulder shot, but I wanted her to be dressed in a sporty attire. Summer is not just about going to the beach or going out for a nice dinner at the beach; the beach does not make summer! There are so many other aspects of June that people forget compared to the beach in the hot summer sun, such as a workout lifestyle. I wanted to focus a little on this concept with Sanjana's attire in this third picture.

So, now that I've explained it all, I's going to get dow to business, finish this project, and look summer ready while doing it!

Uptown FONT it up

The title is cheesy, I know, but at least you all know what my topic will be for today... FONTS!!!!

While I had already created some of my pages for my issue of relatable, my group had not. They also informed me that they wished to utilize a font entirely separate from Joomag. In case any of you have forgotten what Joomag is, Joomag is a website that allows users to create and edit their own magazines to the way they see best fit. So, because of this, a font change was in order.

At first, I had no idea where they were going with their fonts, I thought what I had was fine. But then they reminded me that the 'RELATABLE' title must be uniform; I thought they could have just chosen the same one that I had, but that wasn't the case. Thus, one morning in class, my group members and I sat together and scrolled through fonts on a website called Dafont (the link will be at the bottom of the page). It featured several cool and unique fonts that I had never seen before in my life! Together, the three of us choose a font unanimously and went to work on our separate issues.

Downloading the fonts was a little more complicated than I would have liked, but I eventually figured out what to do. The first step was downloading the font. It would then pop up on your screen and say it was downloaded. I know, you're probably all laughing at my "stupidity", but trust me when I say it was more complicated than this. Once it downloaded, for some reason, my laptop forced me to download it twice (I downloaded another font to make sure I was doing it correctly and I had to go through the same double process). Then, and only then, would it pop up as a useable font on my laptop.

Following that step, I had to add the font to my Joomag fonts. This step was relatively easy compared to the first step. All I had to do was click on the font button on Joomag, press the plus sign-- indicating that I wanted to add a font-- and searched for the font in my database. Once finding it, I double clicked it and BAM, it was added to my Joomag fonts.

I would love to stay and chat some more, but I'm off to go photograph my magazine model! Don't miss me too much though, I'll write soon <3

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