"DOG WORLD"
by melissarts

Comment:
No issue with your basic subject, but the dog is difficult to see due to lighting which would make it less a good candidate for a cover photo. Cropping would be possible with this shot to fit cover format, but colours being as they are might make copy placement difficult. Seems a bit blurry.

Home and Design
by sher

Comment:
This is an amazing-looking home, if it's yours I'm very jealous.

Also, I can EASILY see this gracing a home design magazine. Even though there's very little in the way of decor it's the sort of clean, simple lines such publications seem to favor for shots like this. It's very crisp and clear, well-lit and cheerful. There's room for copy and logo.

Flare (Canada's Fashion Magazine)
by frisca

Comment:
With a setup like this, a blue backdrop would have been preferable to more closely mimic the beach setting. I'll assume your magazine exists; as a fashion magazine this is a reasonable setup. I don't know but that they might have chosen a more contrasting shoe colour and worked the text around it, though this way makes it easier for the copy compositor, certainly. Lots of space up top for copy, too.

National Geographic-Wolves in Captivity
by sagestudio

Comment:
Way to catch the howl, very nice. Shot seems rather blurred everywhere but the muzzle and vicinity; I think a sharp focus on the wolf entire would have been preferable. I think NG is more prone to wild than captivity themes but it doesn't seem entirely unlikely.

Mushroom News
by LarsPaysen

Comment:
Mushroom News... heh, whaddya know, it really exists. (No offense, I just had to check; I would have suggested Mycologia instead otherwise.)

Fits the magazine topic just fine. Maybe a little busy of a background for easy text laoyout but only becaues of the pale patches, and it's probably workable with. A close-up shot on what appears to be damage could easily go with a cover story.

guitarist
by deceptive

Comment:
Maybe a bit much on the blur here, even given a focus on the tuning. Topically it seems apt. The toning seems a little strange. I think being able to read the logo more clearly might be nice; at that angle I have to twist my head. But it would depend partly on the focus of the cover story.

Birder`s world magazine
by marbo

Comment:
Hmm... well, I see "birder's world" and for some reason I think of birdwatching -- no clue about the magazine itself. And I don't think of roosters as terribly bird-watching material.

Assuming a NON-full-bleed magazine, it'd be a good shot; focus clear on the bird, background not intrusive. In a full-bleed, you'd have some problems with the brightness of the colours vs copy text, but it might be manageable.

conehead digest
by grigrigirl

Comment:
Okay. The magazine appears to be made up, which is a shame. (Dubious title, and no result on google.) I wish you'd have come up with an existing magazine to go with it, but I'll give you credit for humor.

The shot is kind of interesting, real vs statue, though I don't know what the heck the topic of the cover story would be.

I think it would have been better to have either a different background or a different colour shirt; the shirt has a tendency to try to fade into the bg though I can see the line of the arm.

There's room for cover logo and copy. Assuming a full-bleed shot and the right colour copy it would work fairly well.

National Wildlife
by amandolin

Comment:
Hmm, assuming a special on bugs, okay, that makes sense with the title. I don't know your magazine well enough to judge how likely this is, so I'll leave it be.

It's an interesting close-up, though I'm not sure I would have chosen to crop so much of the wings out. The focus is fairly good, seems to blur a bit more at the bottom than I think ideal. The crop is very good to account for cover copy and logo, and the focal blur helps with that. Maybe just a -touch- on the bright side.

Kids World
by xertion

Comment:
I don't know the magazine but this seems about right for the title. There's space for a logo at top, that's a plus. A little harder would be cover copy because of the brightness of the light coming between the columns but it could be done.