Design thread

With that photo, I hope you can tell.

 

That just doesn't do it for me. The index info at the top is too deep for the info it provides, and the headline and photo seem a little too huge. I also would flip the column and the text as displayed, though I don't really like the side-by-each design anyway. I also agree as a folded page, it would fail miserably.

 

I agree with Red.

This Chrysler Classic may be all the rage in Greensboro, but I would like to see more of a feature approach on this and a smaller headline.

If I care about golf and am picking up the paper on Monday morning, I know who won.

That front doesn't make me want to read the section. I already know all that.

If the front highlighted a column and sidebar more, I would be more tempted to dig in.

Just my $.03 (adjusted for increase in gas prices).

 

The photo is cropped irresponsibly and not as evocative as that page wants it to be. You don't take a vertical celebration shot, which this most likely was, and chop it in half.

 

I learned it upper left because English and most other Western languages read left to right. Might be upper right in countries where they read right to left, though.

 

Maybe I've just been cropping photos for a different medium too long, but I don't agree with this at all.

With his arms and the club the way they are, it becomes a horizontal pic. Unless he's doing something really interesting with his feet, the action is from his torso up. Trying to keep his legs in would add nothing, and in fact would subtract, because it would necessitate cropping much "farther" away from where everything is happening.\

This crops absolutely fine with me, and I don't think it's the medium, either. I think it's fine for a broadsheet display photo.

 

My guess on the photo play was to try and get as close-in on his face as possible and show emotion ...

 

Just to answer a couple of points:

1.) This was a wraparound on the sports section.

2.) The lead photo was taken that way, I believe.

 

There's a lot of dead space in the shot. SeaOtter says it's not cropped but, sorry, it looks that way. Half the body language is being lost. It's not a terrible shot, but if you're going to blow the shit out of a photo, shouldn't there be more going on than this?

 

If his jumping off the ground, it would be good to run a full body shot. Otherwise, it's fine to crop a celebration shot tight.

 

New page, from the Miami Herald:



Thoughts?