Draft photos

While this photo has good compostition for a front cover photo, because there's room for a masthead and sell lines, I don't feel the outfit of the model matches the genre or represents my target audience well enough

This photo is not very well composed because there's not a lot of room for the Masthead

This photo is quite good for a front cover image because there's room for a masthead and the screamer.
The outfits also fit the genre well and represent my target audience.  Furthermore, a rock magazine is likely to have a band of people on the front rather than just one or two people.
The pose makes the three look like a band because they look comfortable around each other, as a band naturally would be.
The pose is also good because it suggests that the girl in the middle is the front woman; something that bands almost always have.

This photo is also good for the same reason as above.

This photo might be good to use for the DPS, because instead of the cool, pose which would be good for a front cover; this photo reveals emotion and has a more casual feel to it.  DPS articles tend to reveal more about the artist and adopt a more 'casual' attitude than front covers, so this photo would be good to use because it matches the nature of a DPS

This photo, although fairly well composed, is not very good for a front cover for two reasons I've already discussed.  Firstly, rock magazines rarely show just two people on the cover because it's more often single artists or rock groups that feature on the front.  Secondly, the pose looks awkward which gives the impression that the two aren't comfortable together, which wouldn't be the case if they were partners in music

These photos would be more suitable for a folk music magazine due to the iconography of the acoustic guitar and the fact that duets are a lot more common in the folk music scene than the rock scene.

The composition is good, and there's the iconic rock horns which help the target audience to identify with the magazine.  However, the pose looks slightly awkward and, again, it's a pair.

The girl on the left's face is blurred.  Other than that,  this photo might also be good to use as a DPS image due to the revealing of emotion which is suitable because of the reasons I discussed before.

These photos would be good for DPS article because they, again, have a casual feel to them which more matches the purpose of the DPS article.

This photo would be completely unsuitable for a front cover because the top of the head is not in the frame.  There would be no room for the Masthead.

The composition and pose of this photo are good for a front cover, but the fact that it's a photo of two people makes it less suitable for the genre.

This is an example of a long shot which are almost never used on front covers.

The fact that the floor is visible in this picture makes it look amateur.