Favorite:
"It just might be one of the great hair days of all time. For O, The Oprah Magazine’s September 2013 hair-a-palooza issue, photographer Ruven Afanador captured Oprah Winfrey radiant in a magnificent Afro. (As was widely reported, the wig, which Oprah christened “Wild Thang,” weighed about the same as a Chihuahua.) The cover sparked “’Froprah” mania, garnering 337,346,650 media impressions; Oprah’s Instagram of the image drew some 75,000 likes in 24 hours. After 13 years and more than 160 issues with the same cover model (how’s that for a challenge?), O can still surprise, delight, and pump up the volume like nobody else."
Critique:
This cover is very, bright, colorful, beautiful, and it brings your eye right to the subject. But there are some things that can be changed, a bit just like any good cover. I do enjoy the simplicity of the words but I think some of the words could be taken off, also I don't like the pink they used for that one statement, I do not think it really matches with the color scheme. But I do love the way Oprah is lighted, she looks so bright, luminous, and happy really. Also although the hair is huge it still looks good, like it does not look bad. I like this picture because I can relate to this. I do not have quite as much hair as her but I do have an afro when kept untamed. I defiantly like this photo but like I said it could use some changes. I also believe that the settings on the camera made it very cleat and bright.
