Leibovits Portrait

I honestly dont like any of these portraits but if I HAD to choose, it would be the Hugh Hefner one. The frame is filled and there is an awesome plane in the back and a pimp in the front. The lighting isn't too dark and its not too light, its just right.

Best Covers

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My Favorite:
#19 Esquire (December 2000) Bill Clinton’s appearance on Esquire’s cover at the tail end of his administration provoked ire from both sides of the political spectrum. Accompanying an extensive profile of the President in his waning weeks in office, Platon’s cover shot (the result of an 8-minute session in a cramped hotel bedroom in Princeton, NJ) was intended to evoke the Lincoln Memorial. Instead it came to be seen as fraught with sexual significance following the scandal with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

This guy is sitting in a chair with good posture and with formal clothing. This man is also looking at the camera and so it is a formal picture. The light is comming from the back making this photo a silouette.

Cover History

Early Magazine Covers mostly put the table contents and a title and tried to make it look like the cover of a book. They never made the covers to where you can see what was inside.

The Poster Cover was sometimes the only thing on the cover of a magazine and would try to set a mood for the reader. A picture is worth more than a thousand words so the picture itself explained everything without the words.

Pictures Married to Type didn't have pictures but had a catchy headline. They'd put a picture right in the middle of a title to make it more interesting and so you can see the picture and words at the same time.

In the Forest of Words made both the picture and the title stand out and be interesting. They would put "almost naked" women on the covers so men would read them and women would want to read it because they wanted to look like them.

My Portrait

I'm going to take a portrait of Holly ~-<*Diane*>-~ Cook. It's going to be a black and white informal picture where Holly is sitting on her fat butt on her chair in her room and she's looking down somewhere. Holly is going to be dressed old fashion like and holding some flowers. I might put a fake knife in her chest or something and make the blood the only thing in color but Im not sure yet. Then I might put Beege Ray in the picture (her cat).

Winter Conference

Do you want to go to the winter conference? No I would not like to go.

What contest(s) do you want to enter? None

What classes would you like to take? None

1. Choose the portrait you like the most, and write the photo number. I like photo number 44.

2. Briefly describe the photo. What is the CVI? Is it a formal portrait, an informal portrait, or something else? This photo is capturing an alley way with a man looking at a cat. This is an environmental portrait. The CVI is the man looking at the cat.

3. Form- What are the major composition techniques used in this photo, and how are they used? There are leading lines and frames on this portrait that make the man the CVI.

4. Content - What are the eye positions, and how does this affect the photo? Describe the lighting. You can't see any eyes in this photo because the man is too far away, and the lighting is kind of dim because its in an alleyway and the sun can't really come in.

5. Expression- What is happening in this photo that makes this moment "decisive?" Its lonely and boring so it makes it seem more special for the guy sitting there with the cat.

6. Read the caption, and explain one thing that is interesting about the person / scene.

Portraits

A formal portrait is a portrait with the subject looking towards the camera and posing properly. An informal portrait is a portrait of the subject looking away from the camera.

The eyes can tell us if its formal or informal.

The background and the body position can tell us if its a posed shot or not.

The lighting can show us the important parts of the photo and leave out stuff that we dont really need to see.