I was going to ask the same question here, and you beat me to it. Are we supposed to shoot the cover of a magazine, or shoot something else to BE the cover of a magazine?
Also, no spot-editing right? No adding words, etc?
You know, I was wondering about this challenge myself. Not the question of what the photo should be, just why it would be the usual rules without any provision for making it look like, y'know, an actual magazine. I suppose the proviso for the title is safer than having people use real magazine titles, though...
Originally I was going to say "Isn't this just photojournalism in disguise?" but then I realized that "magazine" covers an awful lot of ground.
Shoot a picture that could be on the cover of an existing magazine and use the magazine as your title.
can the magazine be an imaginary one? or maybe it's a real one but not known to many? hmm...
I think it has to be an existing magazine, but I don't think that limits us in any way. This must be one of the most open ended challenges we've had so far. There are magazines available which covers just about anything you can imagine, from insects to space travel, anything goes.
You know, I was wondering about this challenge myself. Not the question of what the photo should be, just why it would be the usual rules without any provision for making it look like, y'know, an actual magazine.
I think that we are safe with any copyright issues as long as we don't make our photos look like any particular magazine cover, which is probably why we were not asked to add all the stuff you usually see on magazine covers.
I have to say I would take it to be for example...
Fav Mag: National Geographic
Photo: Take a photo of a landscape or animal or the like and title it "National Geographic", or
Fav Mag: Knitting Monthly (OK i made this up, i dont want to fall into the trap of spoiling ideas for people)
Photo: Take a picture of, well something to do with knitting and title it "Knitting Monthly"
any chance on a bit of clarification on this subject? i think its safe to say we would all like to know definately if we are taking a pic and making it into our own magazine cover
any chance on a bit of clarification on this subject? i think its safe to say we would all like to know definately if we are taking a pic and making it into our own magazine cover
I personally dont think this is supposed to be an exercise in using PSP or PS to design a cover, more just a case of taking a photo of an appropriate subject which you could in theory go on to sell you your fav magazine for them to go on to make it into the cover of their mag. Anyone else feel the same?
Edit... Did i actually get my point across there? I meant to say, no i reckon its just a suitable photo you submit here.
any chance on a bit of clarification on this subject? i think its safe to say we would all like to know definately if we are taking a pic and making it into our own magazine cover
The way I read it, we don't do anything. We take a photo and submit it (after processing of course). We give the photo the title of a magazine.
For example: Take a picture of a cow. Submit it. Give it a magazine title. For the cow, something like Farmer's Weekly.
Don't put any writing on the photo. This is not allowed and will get you disqualified.
so basically i go out take a pic of say a car, put a border round it as usual submit it and in the title box put something like top gear
Exactly. Like Mitonsky said, the idea is to take a photo like one that you would typically see on the cover of your favourite magazine, and then use the title to let everybody know what your favourite magazine is. My feeling is not to put a border on this shot, as most photos you see as magazine covers don't have them. This is however a matter of taste.
My feeling is not to put a border on this shot, as most photos you see as magazine covers don't have them. This is however a matter of taste.
Also a matter of what magazines you read. Time does do a border and does their type (logo, price, and feature stories) over the photo as a whole so the border applies to the photo as a whole; I'd think replicating that was in order. Newsweek varies some, sometimes having a focus image under the logo and sometimes a whole-cover, and has a more subtle border, so I'd think it'd depend on the shot. National Geographic is more like Newsweek except their gold border is both not 'subtle' and part of their branding, so I'd suspect you'd be better off with the border on. Scientific American has no border, so I'd leave it off.
Or, put more shortly (too late), might as well match the style of the magazine you are submitting 'as'.
Anyone who watches 'Have I Got News For You' in the UK knows that there are an awful lot of obscure magazines out there... this challenge is really an open licence to take a picture of ANYTHING, and find the relevant magazine title! Watch out for pics of pets and flowers galore...
Anyone who watches 'Have I Got News For You' in the UK knows that there are an awful lot of obscure magazines out there....
That raises another interesting question. Will people vote down submissions if the magazines they represent are not well known? Will they take the photographer's word for it, or do we all have to submit Time magazine photos.
One example is foreign language magazines. What if I took a shot of my dog and submitted it as "Ein Herz Für Tiere" (directly translates to: a heart for animals)? Do I translate the magazine title or submit the German?
Anyone who watches 'Have I Got News For You' in the UK knows that there are an awful lot of obscure magazines out there....
That raises another interesting question. Will people vote down submissions if the magazines they represent are not well known? Will they take the photographer's word for it, or do we all have to submit Time magazine photos.
One example is foreign language magazines. What if I took a shot of my dog and submitted it as "Ein Herz Für Tiere" (directly translates to: a heart for animals)? Do I translate the magazine title or submit the German?
Being from the US and not knowing any other language than english i know i'd like to see the original title then in pararethesis the english version ... kinda like a subtitle ... i think that would be appropriate :)
One example is foreign language magazines. What if I took a shot of my dog and submitted it as "Ein Herz Für Tiere" (directly translates to: a heart for animals)? Do I translate the magazine title or submit the German?
Oops, maybe that came out wrong. What I meant was, If I title my photo A Heart for Animals, and somebody doubts that this magazine actually exists, and does an internet search for it but comes up empty handed because the magazine is actually called "Ein Herz für Tiere", will I get a lower score?
I used Time as an example because it is well known, not because it is American.
Hehe - pure chaos. This thread was the first thing I imagined when i read the challenge title.
FWIW, my interpretation of this challenge. Take a photo that could be used for the cover of a magazine: use the name of that magazine as the title of your photo. Really don't think it's all that complicated.
And there are no rule changes: so no text, no illegal manipulation. Though personally I'll be expectng shots in portrait format: been trying to think of a magazine published in landscape and I can't.
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edit: oh, and i think this is a fabulous challenge idea: an enormous scope of subject matter, but a certain subtle limit on stylistics. Great thinking.
Personally I'll be basing my vote 99.9% on whether the photo would look good as a magazine cover and 0.1% on whether I've ever heard of the magazine. Voting takes long enough without having to check all the titles! LOL.
Shoot a picture that could be on the cover of an existing magazine and use the magazine as your title.
can the magazine be an imaginary one? or maybe it's a real one but not known to many? hmm...
I think it has to be an existing magazine, but I don't think that limits us in any way. This must be one of the most open ended challenges we've had so far. There are magazines available which covers just about anything you can imagine, from insects to space travel, anything goes.
I don't see how it has to be an existing magazine. Just make it clear in the title what you call your magazine. Or.. do a photo for an existing magazine. I don't believe it means to copy a published issue by buying and photographing the cover.
