Stephen Walrond

Photos and Musings

  • Home
  • Portraits & People
  • 5 a Day Challenge
  • Walthamstow & District Photographic Society
  • Slideshow
  • Links
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost

    Photographic Assignments: Discover Magazine

    Discover_magazine_cover_1_monica

    Another Photographic Assignments outing and another rainy day out in London. This time the location was Greenwich Observatory, and the assignment was to take a photo of the new Astronomer Royal for an article and cover for Discover magazine.

    Without a real Astronomer Royal we had to depend upon the other members of the group to pose for us, so in this post you will see Pete who runs Photographic Assignments and Monica, my main study and a somewhat challenging one at that.

    All shots have been taken without a flash or reflector, and only with the grey light of a dull rain soaked day. Despite these limitations I feel that the results are OK. Perhaps not perfect for Discover Magazine, which tends to go for a very graphic design centred design for both it's covers and articles.

    As alway's I would like to know what you think.

     

    The first project can be seen here.

    And the Photographic Assignment's site can be found here.

    Tags » London Photographic Assignments Portrait people
    • 13 July 2011
    • Views
    • Permalink
    • Tweet
    • 2 responses
    • Like
    • Comment
    10 months ago Boorin responded:
    I think the photo is excellent but, used as a magazine cover in the way you've shown, it's totally let down by the text, which is so boring it makes me want to vomit a comment [this comment]. The text desperately needs some styling/effects.
    Photo = 9.2/10
    Text = 0.2/10
    Overall score as a magazine cover = 1.5/10
    10 months ago Stephen Walrond responded:
    Stephen Walrond
    The difficulty with this project was that it was so unlikely. Discover magazine uses very graphic designey covers, and photography is often heavily manipulated or barely recognisable as a photo. Also, if you want to make the cover of Discover magazine then you should be dead and a legend in your field, even then you will be blue and teal on a yellow background - no one is treated with deference.

    I wanted to be true to the stark graphic styling of the magazine but I also want to show the portrait.

    As for the text, I don't really care. The photographer wouldn't be the same person who sets text, not my job so I don't have to be good at it. Any thanks for the 9.5/10 Boorin.

  • Stephen Walrond's Space


  • About Stephen Walrond


  • Subscribe via RSS

    Archive

    2012 (14)
    April (2)
    February (2)
    January (10)
    2011 (133)
    December (3)
    November (9)
    October (10)
    September (10)
    August (13)
    July (13)
    June (10)
    May (8)
    April (21)
    March (7)
    February (19)
    January (10)
    2010 (88)
    December (15)
    November (13)
    October (6)
    September (12)
    August (22)
    July (18)
    June (2)
  • Navigation

    • Home
    • People & Portraits
    • W&DPS
    • Slideshow
    • Links

    Follow Me

      TwitterFacebookBuzzFlickrPicasaYoutube

Theme created for Posterous by Obox