Construction Process & Reflections - Front Cover

This is my original image taken at the front of Lanhydrock House (before any editing) 

I experimented with adjusting the image with the brightness, contrast and saturation tools in Photoshop. I wanted my image to have a more faded appearance and consequently lowered the brightness and saturation of the image, therefore giving it a more atmospheric appearance. This was decided due to the fact that I wanted my magazine to have a Halloween theme, and giving my image a darker, more 'spooky' appearance represents the theme effectively. In the screenshot below I was originally wanting to use this image for my double page spread, so I also wanted the caption to relate to my featured image. However, when considering genre conventions and how the image and text would correlate with the midline, I decided that this image wouldn't work as effectively as I hoped it would for my double page spread.

Using this image for my front cover worked more successfully in my work, and ensured that I was representing my seasonal theme effectively. I ensured that the image quality was as high as I could make it, in order to follow genre conventions whilst simultaneously connoting high production values.