Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Magazine Covers

Blog #3

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.

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