Magazine Cover Derby Round 4.03 "Mets in the Stretch" vs. "Struggle at the Top"

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Vote for the cover that you like the best. Voting will run for seven days.



Mets in the Stretch

Life, September 26, 1969.

Winner of http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28123Round 1.07

Winner of http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28406Round 2.06

Winner of http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28516Round 3.03

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Struggle at the Top

Sports Illustrated, June 21, 1971.

Winner of http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28269Round 1.24

Winner of http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28437Round 2.12

Winner of http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28547Round 3.06

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[Edgy MD]

It's again a question of composition here. Putting aside the much-talked-about-and-deeply-controversial issues with the horizon on the LIFE cover, the 30% of the shot between Koosman's head and the masthead offer almost nothing but blurs and glare. Combine that with the 20% covered with the deep blue gel behind the masthead and pretty much 50% of the cover is doing nothing more than half-heartedly trying to sell me on astrology.



Compare that with SI layout, where all but about 12% of the shot's sectors have meaningful information, and they use that 12% to put a callout box with an effectively contrasting color, giving the title and author of the article the cover photo subject is referring to. If I didn't know Koosman or Grote, and I was walking past a news stand knowing I had time to kill, I'd buy the Sports Illustrated over the LIFE on impulse every time. In fact the glare of the over-exposed whites-in-the-daytime would make me instinctively turn away from the LIFE.



And considering LIFE's historically high standard with photography and photo-editing, that's saying something. Koos deserved better.

[seawolf17]

Koos is throwing uphill. That's a no from me.

[A Boy Named Seo]

September 69. The whole world was freaking out about the Mets when there was plenty of non-sports stuff to freak out about in 69.



LIFE mag all the way.

[cal sharpie]

Sick of all these SI covers. Vote LIFE.

[MFS62]

cal sharpie wrote: Sick of all these SI covers. Vote LIFE.

This.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

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