Magazine Cover Portraits

Portrait & Self Portrait

Magazines Pt. II

1. Early Magazine Covers: used words and ink with drawings and were in black & white 
2. The Poster Cover: colorful pictures of people with few words 
3. Pictures Married to Type: Colorful showing fashion used to get word out about the business 
4. In the Forest of Words: Used celebrities and gossip as covers 

My Favorite Cover

Irvine, Calif., (April 24, 2012) — Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto will not defend his AMA Motocross title in 2012 after injuring his knee at the Seattle supercross on Saturday night. The two-time AMA Supercross and defending AMA Motocross champion will undergo surgery on his knee this week.

“I’m pretty disappointed right now,” said Villopoto. “I have trained hard for this season and even though I won the supercross title, I really wanted to defend my outdoor championship. I’ve been through injury before and I know how hard I have to work to get back.”

Villopoto is coming off of a dominant 16 months where the Poulsbo, Wash. native earned two AMA Supercross titles on the strength of 15 wins, the AMA Motocross Championship with three wins and also the richest payday in supercross with a million dollar win at the Monster Energy Cup.

In this cover photo, Ryan Villopoto is being marked as the rider of the year in 2012. He had accomplished a lot this year and had been riding well which put him at the top of the game. He won every championship he competed for and even won all 3 races in the Monster Cup which helped him win a million dollar pay day. Villopoto is a legend on a dirt bike and has done very well with his career. This cover photo is of him gliding through the air on his Kawasaki KX450f, it is hard to follow most rules of composition when taking motocross photography but it is framed well and gets the point across with his red #1 number plate 

Best Magazine Covers 2015

Formal: F
Informal: I
Environmental: E

1. F
2. F
3. E
4. F
5. E
6. F
7. I
8. F
9. F
10. E
11. E
12. I
13. I
14. E
15. F
16. F
17. E
18. I

Magazine Tips

5 Magazine Tips:

1. Familiar recognition from issue to issue 

2. Emotionally irresistible 

3. Arousing curiosity 

4. Intellectually stimulating, interesting

5. Efficient, fast, easy to scan

6. Is it worth the investment of money and time

Fashion Photography

Fashion Photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer:
Zero blemishes or acne, widened eyes, widened lips, curled hair
2. List the changes that were made to the model's body in the computer:
zero blemishes, skinnier stomach and legs, lengthened legs, widened neck, smaller feet, changed entire skin tone
3. List the changes that were made to the model in the computer:
made entire body skinny
4. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not?
These changed are very unethical changed and unrealistic. They can effect anybody's perception of beauty making someone out to have an unachievable beauty. 
5. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
I believe all changes like in these videos are unethical and any sort of body manipulation to help someone achieve this type of beauty is immoral. 
6. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
I don't think changing someones body in anyway is ethical.
7. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.
Fashion photography are people attempting to sell a product by putting it on a beautiful person whereas in photojournalism they attempt to shoot the realism of situations and not sugar coat anything, in most cases.
8. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each? 
Photojournalists are shooting for news purposes which causes one to shoot ethical pictures and not sugar coat the reality of the situation whereas fashion is just a trend and must be sugar coated to make money and sell products more efficiently. 
9. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos?
You're showing us these videos to make us realize how wrong, unethical and immoral manipulation can be.
10. Why are none of these videos about guys???
Guys don't need to achieve to perfect beauty like girls feel as if they need too.

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