Glasgow Caledonian University – Postgraduate Prospectus Cover Shot

  Glasgow Caledonian had to find a cover shot for their Postgrad prospectus, typically they had a pretty good brief and all we had to do was get the shot. The cover design was sketched out in advance so I knew that we needed a small group of students in the foreground with possibly another small group in the background. They wanted bold colours on the left hand side of the frame to push the viewers eye to the right. Knowing the campus well we chatted through the options and then settled on this area. It was a corridor with lots of light on 1 side making for a potentially unbalanced shot so it was necessary to use flash in very specific areas of the shot to bring a sense of balance back.

 

After a half day shoot we had a good bunch of potential shots in the bag but this was how the cover ended up