BeST CoVeRS!!

1: rolling stone: informal
2: vanity fair: formal
3: esquire: informal
5: esquire: environmental
9: harper's bazaar: formal
10: national geographic: informal
11: life: environmental
13: life: environmental
15: harper's bazaar: formal
18: espn: environmental
19: esquire: formal
20: blue: environmental
21: life: environmental
22: george: informal
24: interview: informal
26: people: informal
27: entertainement weekly: environmental
28: life: environmental
29: playboy: formal
29: fortune: environmental
31: newsweek: formal
32: vogue: informal
35: new york: environmental
36: people: formal
37: details: formal
37: glamour: formal
37: time: formal

CoVeR TYPeS!!

1. Early Magazine Covers:
when magazines first started out most of them didn't really have covers, it was more like a table of contents. Eventually they had covers, but they were like book covers, plain and simple. The pictures on the cover were more for decoration as opposed to actually letting you know what's being talked about in the magazine.

2. The Poster Cover:
When magazines started using poster covers, like early magazine covers, they really had nothing to do with the stories in the magazine. Instead, they were used basically to just make the magazine look nice and/or to convey a certain season or mood. There are also hardly ever any cover lines or themes announced on the front of these magazines, but if there are any they are most of the time very small. Most poster covers looked like "they were printed to be framed and hung on the wall."

3. Pictures Married to Type:
On the magazine covers, pictures are married to type when the words and the picture are in "a symbiotic, mutually supportive relationship." Most of the time with this new design, words were in color and sometimes rather large depending on the style of the magazine. Basically, this is the cover where the words and the picture blend with each other and compliment one another as opposed to taking away from one or the other.


4. In the Forest of Words:
During experimenting with text colors and sizes in the pictures married to type phase, magazine designers became to interested in the words, and not so much the picture. In the forest of words, its exactly that, a forest of words. There are so many words, its easy to get lost. Most of the time in these magazines the words overpower the picture, despite how powerful it may be, and really take away from it.

PoRTRaiT iDeaS!!

I like this portrait because it just seems so real. When I look at it, I don't get the feeling that it was posed. The way he's curled up in a fetal position makes it seem like he cant function without her, it makes him look so innocent and helpless, like he needs her to survive. She's his lifeline. I want to capture this realness in my photos. I want my photos to mean something like this one does.

CoLoR SHooT!!

I plan on shooting photos of my sister at my house. I need to do it this week and I will need the camera. I don't know how long I'll need the camera, it might be more than one day.

I think a photojournalists ethics should be situational because not everyone's always right and you can rely on someone to tell you what's ethical and what's not, but who's to say that that person is always right? nobody. so i think that it should be situational and the person who shot the photo should have the right to do what they think is ethical or unethical because something like that is always just going to be your opinion.
I believe that a photo can really capture the truth, but its up to you to actually show the truth in your photos.

PHoTo MaNiPuLaTioN!!

While searching for a picture to put on the cover of their new student applications, UW-Madison came across one they seemed to really like. There was just the small fact that the picture did not have any minorities in it, and didnt give the thought or idea that they were trying to get across. The picture was all whites and they wanted some diversity on their cover seeing as how minorities were more than 9% of their students. They decided to crop the picture and insert a black students face in the picture. The applications were made and sent out. When it was found out what they had done, they were very embarassed and agreed that what they had done was unethical and wrong. They said that the photo was only manipulated because they has such a short notice and not much time to get the photo published. However, it has been promised that another application will be sent out with a different, unedited picture shortly.

I think that what they did was wrong. The fact that they only did it so that it would look like their school had minorities involoved only made it worse. They should have just left the photo alone, it was fine like it was, because any normal person isn't going to look at that photo and be like...oh my gosh there's no minorities in this photo...unless it was pointed out by someone. But I personally don't think people do that.

FuNNY CaPTioNS!!

The city of Austin has been ordered to release

all monkeys from work because of disruptions

in society and confusion on the streets. Although it has been said that they have the same intelligence as humans, they will no longer be allowed to work along side us in the work force because of one's latest mistake. "sotp" has caused many complications in our society and has resulted

in sad consequences.

Oscar the cat suits up in his

army gear as he prepares to

battle fluffy the miniature poodle.

This fight resulted after a verbal

confrontation that took place in the

park earlier that week.

After throwing a hissy fit

at her former hair salon,
Ms. Piggy states that she

will never go to Susie's

Sassy Hair Salon ever
again after what they have
done to her gorgeous pink
hair. She pressed charges
later that day for the
damage they did and the
emotional trauma they
caused.