MAGAZINE COVER

Happy Akins Building

HAPPY

AKINS

BUILDING

Cover Types

In magazines, the have four different types of covers for it. There's the early magazine covers, the poster cover, pictures married to type, and the forest of words cover. 

In the earliest magazine covers starting in the 1700s they didn't really have covers but dedicated the first page with the title and just the table of contents. They usually looked like book-like layouts and just a small illustration. They usually had pictures that revealed nothing about the content inside of it. So generally most magazines didn't have covers and if they did it was mainly to put the table of contents on.

In the poster cover magazines became the type of magazine cover that became the most popular for a period of time. It was mostly artwork and the covers on the over sized magazines looked as if you could post them up as a poster, hence the name. It was good way to show off art work as well. In the 20th century, instead of art displayed it was photographs and sometimes used for magazine covers to portray a special issue and directed to more upscale readers. The main reason to use poster covers is the competition of the audience attention over all the covers because with just one thing on it, the main focus, will call more attention over the interesting issue, whatever it may be.

The difference between the the poster covers and married to type is that married to type's purpose were the big headlines to help draw more attention. Having words around the focus helps sometimes at depth and contrast of colors. This poster cover did not beat the attention to the poster cover but then during the 70's it was better, a magazine that had no cover lines. It was used mostly in fashion magazines that accentuated the nature of what fashion is. Then most of married to type covers changed and there was more words and now sometimes in front of some of the picture and became an advertiser type.

Best yearbook Spread and Newspaper

Favorite yearbook spread

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Photoshop Fun!

My Holiday Break

During the entire break I flew down by myself to LA to visit all my family that I hadn't seen for a year. Every single day I was over there I did something fun but my highlight was getting a tattoo in Hollywood and going to the Laker game. It was amazing sitting there at a real game and cheering on my team.

This year I have many resolutions for myself. I plan to lose weight and get back to shape with my gym membership. I won't be to school late anymore and will go to sleep early every night. I need to find a new job so that when I'm in college I have a steady job. This year I looked forward to growing up more, starting college and beginning a new life style.

Biggest Sport Entertainer of 2011-Kobe Bryant

I think the biggest sport entertainment of every year until he retires will be Kobe Bryant because I am a dye hard Laker fan and he's a great MVP!! Every time basketball season comes around and the Lakers make it to the championship (: Kobe always excels. Watching him play gets you all hyped up and anxious because you expect him to make every shot he goes for and to me he never dissapoints.

Most Important Person of 2011-Hilary Clinton

I thought Hilary Clinton was the most important person because I think she's an extraordinary smart woman that should of deserved a position of being our president and change America's perception of women forever. Even though she didn't make it to be president I'm glad she made it into office as our secretary of state.

Most Important News Story of 2011-Prince Williams marries Catherine Middleton

 

I chose this as the most important news story because everyone wanted to see who the next queen of England was going to be!! It was exciting to see who Prince William chose to be his wife and queen and I thought Catherine or "Kate" was a good pick. It was interesting to see how massive and elegant the wedding was and how beautiful everything looked.

Favorite movie of 2011- Breaking Dawn

Even though I'm not a Twilight die hard fan I really liked this movie and the whole plot as well as the ending. It got me to want to be more into the Twilight saga and I can't wait for part two to come out. It was really romantic yet funny and at times it left me with anticipation because I thought Bella was going to die. This was a good movie that highlights 2012 because the day it came out it had everyone waiting in line to see it and now I get why.

Best Song of 2012- You Da One by Rihanna

 

I personally love all of Rihanna's songs for they are all catching and have good beats but I thought this one was one of her greatest. I liked what the lyrics were and the way she sang it. It was good for 2011 because it is a very popular song of her new album and had an appealing music video along with it. She had many hit songs this year as her own character developed even more and as her look kept changing.

Three Favorites of 2011

This was one of my favorites because I thought it was the most important for the tenth year of 911 never comes again and it's great way to commemorate it.

This one I liked also because it was great news to our country and especially our heroes and it was a great relief for everyone.

This was also a great picture and a reminder of a huge devastation happening to Japan this year, one of our allies.

Rules of Photography Part II- Hollywood Theme

Rule of Thirds

 

Lines/Leading Lines

Simplicity

 

 

Framing

Symmetry

 

 

Viewpoint

Creating Depth

Cropping

Best Mural Photograph

Environmental Portrait

Dancer- Danielle Ayala

Portrait Assignment

I plan to take a photo of  someone with a nice smile or pretty eyes so that something on their face just stands out. I'll keep it simple doing a close up in a plain background possibly outside with the natural light and using the cropping method. I want it to look like the background is blurrier than the person to make the person to stand out even more.

Short list Warm-Up

Landscape: I chose this one as my favorite because I like how its taken from the aspect of the ground and how it gets blurry as it goes farther, it's different.

Travel Shortlist: I chose this one because I liked how the orange from the monks robe stood out from the whole background, it's a peaceful photograph.

Fashion Shortlist:I chose this photo because I liked how her make-up went with the flower and leaves in the background. The green eye shadow made her eyes and the flower above her stand out.

Family and Friends Shortlist: I chose this one because I loved how the it was from the baby's perspective looking up on the adults and that it was also in black and white.

Portraits Shortlist: I chose this because it shows how the woman in the photograph wants to be portrayed and how it shows a different kind of beauty of woman rather than the natural, dainty woman.

Documentary Shortlist: I chose this photo because I liked how the kids enjoyed playing in the water and having fun despite where they may be living and how the black and white effect enhances the mood.

Gardens and plants shortlist: I chose this one because the color of the lavender flowers and the amount of them in the photo was appealing and gave life to the darkness of the back part of the photo. I like how the color of sky at that time of the day was caught on this photo.

Wildlife Shortlist: I chose this photo because I like how it was a close up of the mother monkey taking care of her child. Shows how animals are the same as humans when it comes to nature.

Creative License Shortlist: I chose this one because the sky looks awesome and it seems like a dream. I like how it shows the person walking up a building into the sky as if she's going to heaven and she's smaller because she's far away already.

Actions and movement shortlist: I chose this because I like how graceful the dancer looks while jumping above water and how she's a shadow and only the sunset stands out.

Casual Potrait

I chose these photos for casual portraits because they were the simplest to me that still looked great whether they're in color or black and white. It didn't need any props or extra stuff to look appealing.

Photography Self Portraits

I chose these photos because I thought they were the most artsy looking. The photo in which a camera is also used in it shows the personality of the person being photographed and could potentially be his hobby or his career as a photographer. The other photo shows a model in a dark ambient with her piercing eyes catching all of the attention in the photograph.

Environmental Portrait

I chose these photos of environmental portraits because it showed what these people like doing or what potentially could be their hobbies. It's a good way to take a self portrait using props to make them more interesting about the person in the portrait and shows a little bit more about themselves.