Cover photos

This photo i really liked and wanted to use for my front cover. She is Smiling in the photo and the way she is pointing seems a typical cheesy pop way of standing. I also liked the costume she is wearing, the fur coat seems glamorous and representative of the pop music genre. However the main problem with this photo is that she is not looking into the camera and is therefore not looking at the consumers. As 70% of magazines are bought on impulse eye contact with consumers is essential as you need your magazine to stand out and catch the eye of potential buyers.

This photo i considered because she is looking into the camera. However the lighting on this photo is not good enough. It is too dark on her face and for a pop magazine i want the cover image to be bright and have some colour to her face. Another reason i didn't use this photo was that she doesn't look comfortable in the photo, she isn't smiling and her body posture does not seem very relaxed as her shoulders seem quite high.


This was the photo i actually used on my front cover. It seemed to me to be the only photo i had that fulfilled all of my criteria for a cover photo. She is smiling, looking into the camera, the lighting is good so you can see her face clearly and brightly and also it was taken in portrait view which means it is easier to photoshop and fit onto a portrait veiw magazine than a lanscape image. Her costume seems like normal smart-casual wear for a girl of her age which means the audience of the magazine can relate to her and easily emulate her if that is what they want to do. Her positioning in the image is good because she is centred in the image and most of the picture is of her, there is only a little bit of wall when compared to the image above this one.

This photo i didn't want to use for several reasons. The first and most crucial of these being that she is not looking into the camera and therefore would not make eye contact with consumers when used on my front cover. Another thing i wanted to have in the picture was for my model to be smiling, which she clearly isn't in this photo. This photo was also landscape which means it would be harder to crop into a suitable image for my front cover.