Critical Evaluation of First Draft of Front cover

I wanted to create a minimal easy to read cover that doesn't use clashing colours. I have achieved this by keeping the colours to black white or grey, along with this the cover image uses soft colouring. Also using a sans serif font keeps with the modern styling of the magazine, along with its content and genre. Furthermore the sans serif font makes it more readable, in the large font.

With the cover image I followed the convention of having a model from a mid-shot facing down the camera, however the image is quite stylised as I wanted the magazine to be fairly sophisticated and art involved; so I chose interesting lighting and a minimalistic background. Although when I printed the image for displaying, the cover image was quite dark and hard to distinguish the models features, so in the second version of my front cover I will need to change the brightness of the image. Furthermore if the image was brighter I think it would make the masthead stand out even better; along with this i will need to add a price and date to the magazine, I'll do this on the banner of the masthead.