This document discusses selecting photos for an album cover. The author considered but rejected earlier photos because they were blurred from camera movement and looked staged. The chosen cover photo was natural, clear, and improved on positioning while avoiding too much movement. It was edited in Photoshop to fit the indie music genre style.
2. These two photos were not
good enough to use as the
front cover of my album. This
is for two main reasons as
well as the other photos taken
at the same time are slightly
better.
1. The photos are blurred due to
not using a tripod with the
camera and movement from the
band members.
2. The photos look staged and un-
natural. The arrangement and
instructions behind the
photographs are too vague and
not distinct enough.
3. This also became the problem in
these two photos. I found out
that movement and positioning
was becoming an increasingly
problematic area.
Being in a band with two other 17
year old lads, we were never going
to get a serious photo shoot.
However in these photos, there is
far too much movement and
“messing about” going on to use as
the front cover
4. We were getting closer to
the kind of photo I wanted
for the front of the digipack
but once again there was
too much movement in the
frame of these photos.
It was cold in the mill where we
practice therefore it was difficult to
keep the camera still. But I couldn’t use
these photos even though the
positioning had improved. The
blurred pixels meant that the quality in
the photo decreased dramatically.
5. This is the final photo that I chose to use as the front cover. It is natural and clear
I took this photo into photo shop and de-saturated it to keep
to the conformities of the Indie/Indie-rock, simple genre.
