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06/04/2003 02:12:56 AM · #1 |
"Choose your favorite magazine, and try to take a cover photo! The title of your photograph should be the name of your magazine"
So let get this straight... take a photo of a magazine cover (title and all) , NOT - go and take a photo and make it in to a magazine cover... RIGHT?
one question are we not breaking any copyright rules doing this??
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06/04/2003 02:19:53 AM · #2 |
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?
Can I take the photo of the magazine of a rifle? |
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06/04/2003 02:23:20 AM · #3 |
Shoot a picture that could be on the cover of an existing magazine and use the magazine as your title.
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06/04/2003 02:35:07 AM · #4 |
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. |
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06/04/2003 02:57:20 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by greenem2:
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... |
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06/04/2003 03:59:48 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by shadow:
Originally posted by greenem2:
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.
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06/04/2003 04:02:55 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by qachyk:
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.
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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.
Message edited by author 2003-06-04 04:55:58.
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06/04/2003 04:32:10 AM · #8 |
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"
Message edited by author 2003-06-04 04:36:21.
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06/04/2003 04:45:47 AM · #9 |
| 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 |
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06/04/2003 04:50:55 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by tragicharpy:
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.
Message edited by author 2003-06-04 04:53:26.
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06/04/2003 04:51:35 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by tragicharpy:
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.
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06/04/2003 05:23:49 AM · #12 |
| 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 |
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06/04/2003 05:34:58 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by tragicharpy:
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.
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06/04/2003 05:46:51 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by Martus:
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'. |
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06/04/2003 06:33:40 AM · #15 |
| 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... |
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06/04/2003 06:55:05 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by BobsterLobster:
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?
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06/04/2003 07:45:24 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by Martus:
Originally posted by BobsterLobster:
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 :)
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06/04/2003 07:49:42 AM · #18 |
Message edited by author 2003-06-04 07:52:10.
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06/04/2003 07:59:24 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by Martus:
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.
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06/04/2003 08:01:02 AM · #20 |
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.
Message edited by author 2003-06-04 08:02:33.
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06/04/2003 08:04:18 AM · #21 |
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.
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06/04/2003 08:25:29 AM · #22 |
I was thinking of Gerbil Fetishists Gazette, personally.
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06/04/2003 08:37:15 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by e301:
I was thinking of Gerbil Fetishists Gazette, personally. |
I'd like to see that!
Could make for cool entries. Maybe gerbils wearing cute little bikinis, or leather outfits with high heeled leather boots.
What exactly does a gerbil fetishist get turned on by e301?
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06/04/2003 08:39:35 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by Martus:
Originally posted by shadow:
Originally posted by greenem2:
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. |
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06/04/2003 08:43:04 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by Martus:
Originally posted by e301:
I was thinking of Gerbil Fetishists Gazette, personally. |
I'd like to see that!
Could make for cool entries. Maybe gerbils wearing cute little bikinis, or leather outfits with high heeled leather boots.
What exactly does a gerbil fetishist get turned on by e301? |
Don't know. Haven't been able to find a copy just yet.
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