Rejection and Selection of Photographs

I took several pictures for my magazine, focusing on the Halloween theme, especially for my front cover, DPS, and main picture for y contents page. I put the models in costume, but chose a darker, more gothic look so that they still fit the Rock genre and did not appear tacky as some mainstream Halloween costumes do:

 

I then uploaded the photographs I took to Flickr in order to get some feedback:

From this, I was able to select a picture for each model that was the most popular with the audience. The winning pictures were this one:

and this one:

I will now be editing the pictures on Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 in order to get them up to magazine standard.