Yesterday we have started a new project - an album cover for a young, upcoming musician.
We took to town, shot everything on location, had lots of fun doing it.
All shot with my 7D and two speedlites with softboxes, umbrellas or bare (details below).
All images are straight from camera, no post done yet.
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This is going to be the front cover photo - obviously, its just the raw material. We are going the cut the young man out, and create some funky graphic around him etc, as his music is, well, funky, joyful and dynamic. Check it out here
For the main shot we had an octa softbox camera left, just outside the frame, and a bare flash coming from below (sounds strange but gave that nice shine on his camera right cheek).
For the back, we decided to go with a nice silhouette, again, we are going to mix it with some colourful graphic elements.
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Our star was brave enough to take off his tshirt in that freezing weather - I just hope he's not going to catch a cold because of me...
The back image was shot with him standing in front of the octa, wich means the light was coming straight into the lens - my 70-200 mm gave me no flair at all, how cool is that.
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A simple portrait, classy clothing. I like it, but the two top images are in a different league. This will work as a nice headshot for our young star.
Octa camera left, my lovely assistent holding a reflector camera right, both things just outside the frame.
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We decided to use the white zipper of his jacket, and the hood to frame him. Straight on face, symmetrical light - an umbrella at a straight angle on each side. I asked him to tilt his head a bit, to breake the perfect symmetry of the shot.
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And the last, moody shot, where we played with the hood to frame his face. Octa camera left, umbrella camera right.
I think the album artwork will only use the top two images, and we will use the rest as promo shots. All images need cleanig etc, cutting out of the background in the first two, and pushing the backgrounf into darker tones in the last three images. Overall, I think we got the main two shots spot on. Time to clean the shots, and move on to designing the rest.
I'll update this post as we go along designing the whole thing, its going to be a lot of work, but hopefully a lot of fun as well.
