CD Cover Photographs

I've been away for the past two media lessons as I've had university interviews that unfortunately fell on the days where I was supposed to have media. To make sure that I was still contributing and that I don't leave Ewan to do all the work with the deadline approaching, I did some work regarding photographs for the CD cover.

Last Wednesday, Ewan took the lesson off to do some film work while I was at my interview as there was nothing left for him to do - we had used all the video footage available and we had edited the single band shots and placed them on the CD cover. We needed more content before we could do anything else in class.

To make my contibution to the lesson on Monday that I would miss, I took some photographs for the CD cover on Sunday and then edited them, ready for Ewan to manipulate them and put them onto the CD cover how he wished on Monday. I emailed them to Ewan once I had uploaded them and made a few adjustments on Photoshop.

These are the final images that I sent to Ewan and the best of the bunch I took. I really liked the black and white feel to the images and I think it fits in well to the genre conventions. The only editing I did to these images was that I upped the brightness slightly to make sure that they weren't too dark, yet dark enough to give off this really moody feel and emphasise the tone we want to portray. I also used the unsharp mask tool to make sure that they were entirely in focus and the images were sharp - the lighting conditions were difficult when taking the images and therefore I wanted to make sure that there was no blurring present and that the images were of a good quality.

I particularly liked the first two images shown here and recommended that Ewan use one of those if he agreed with me. He chose the second one. I left him with these images during Monday's lesson and trusted that he would make an excellent CD cover in my absence. I think the final product looks great.