A couple of days ago, posted a fail from my recent project 52 assignment; shooting an editorial still life for a magazine cover.  My first attempt just wasn’t there (even though at the time I felt that it was), when I got home and started working the post (glad I did it with enough time to re-shoot!), I knew that it just wasn’t working…at all.  Not that it wasn’t visually interesting, it just didn’t say “magazine cover”.

So I came home and shot what was in my head to begin with:

This is the kind of imagery that I should be doing; clean, simple, effective.  This image says Magazine Cover (note no air “quotation marks” needed).  Especially when it was cropped and inserted into the cover template we were provided with:

So, what did I learn?  10 times out of 10, you should trust your first instincts, because they’re rarely wrong…