One of my sunset photos was used by the Cary Grace Band for a CD cover last year. Cary was so pleased with the result that she approached me for something to use on the cover of a limited-edition 12" vinyl extended single the band was releasing this year.
The song was to be a rearrangement of David Gilmour's Fat Old Sun (from Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother album) so the photo needed a large sun in the shot preferably with water in the foreground. I didn't have exactly what was wanted so, after checking 'SunCalc', went to a location that I'd used before and expected the sun to set in just the correct position to produce the right image. I took a few and processed in a variety of styles and Cary selected one (not necessarily the one I'd have chosen but it's not my record )
Yesterday the postman delivered my complimentary copy and, despite my reservation above, think it worked well. Cary also went to town with inserts just the way vinyl used to be I've collected vinyl for over forty years and have always appreciated the artwork so it gave me a massive glow of satisfaction to actually play a part in creating one myself
Front:
IMG_5296 by John Leah, on Flickr
Back:
IMG_5297 by John Leah, on Flickr
Disc and insert:
IMG_5295 by John Leah, on Flickr
The observent may notice that the front and back images have the sun in different positions - that's because they were taken seven months apart
Cheers,
John
The song was to be a rearrangement of David Gilmour's Fat Old Sun (from Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother album) so the photo needed a large sun in the shot preferably with water in the foreground. I didn't have exactly what was wanted so, after checking 'SunCalc', went to a location that I'd used before and expected the sun to set in just the correct position to produce the right image. I took a few and processed in a variety of styles and Cary selected one (not necessarily the one I'd have chosen but it's not my record )
Yesterday the postman delivered my complimentary copy and, despite my reservation above, think it worked well. Cary also went to town with inserts just the way vinyl used to be I've collected vinyl for over forty years and have always appreciated the artwork so it gave me a massive glow of satisfaction to actually play a part in creating one myself
Front:
IMG_5296 by John Leah, on Flickr
Back:
IMG_5297 by John Leah, on Flickr
Disc and insert:
IMG_5295 by John Leah, on Flickr
The observent may notice that the front and back images have the sun in different positions - that's because they were taken seven months apart
Cheers,
John
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