Best magazine covers 2012. (4)

1.Is She Just Too Old for This?", This is a portrait, and informal

2. "Steve Jobs 1955-2011", This is a portrait, and is Formal.

3. "William & Catherine: Love Reigns!", This is a portrait, and is Formal

4."Elizabeth Taylor: Farewell to a Legend", this is a Portrait, and is Formal.

5."Swimsuit 2011", this is a portrait, and is Informal.


6. "The Body Issue: Hope Solo'' Informal

7."Cleopatra", Informal.

8. "Pride", Informal

9. "Mila Kunis" , Informal.

10. "Grill, Baby, Grill", Environmental.

11. "Ryan Gosling", Formal.

12. "The Children of 9/11", Formal. 

13.  "Prince William and Kate", Formal.

14.  "Hope Solo", Formal

15. "The Fashion Issue", Informal.

16. "Wild and Wonderful Things", Environmental.

17. "Above Yosemite" , Environmental.    

FAVORITE.

 The editors’ description of the cover : "Doing what they do may seem extreme enough, but to photograph Yosemite climbers, including Alex Honnold edging face-out along the Thank God Ledge on Half Dome (because ‘it's cooler that way’), is another whole ball of equipment. Photographer Jimmy Chin, who makes a living creating images of climbers all over the world, said: ‘At the end of the day, if I got one photo that I felt truly captured Yosemite climbing, that would make me happy.’ He got one—and it landed on the cover of National Geographic in May 2011."



I liked this photo not only because it explain's the saying, '' Life on the edge'', but also because it show's the great environmental exposure, and good lighting to it.  It talked to us saying that anybody can amount to his or her own limits, and over come fear, because fear s not real if you beat it already. The only thing that i did not like, is the background is a little to darkened from the main subject/cover, the photographer made a great photo out of this because he had a distance from the climber, and the other mountain's itself. The composition was not as easily thought about then looked at, but the photo itself is a great photo, and that's why it made the cover of the magazine.