A while back I had Grammy Award Winner, Sir Mix-A-lot on chasejarvisLIVE. The guy is smart – dropped some pretty serious knowledge on the show [here’s the re-watch if you missed it].
At the end of the show, I shot the cover for his upcoming album, live, online. Here are the results.
The lead one that shows his face is my fav, but there’s plenty of debate, because the other shot is tough and mysterious. I’ll resist the temptation to make any real case for one or the other, and I’ll let this is a straight up survey – which photo do you like better A (top) or B (bottom)? (please answer in the post, not via other social channels so we don’t have to chase your feedback – thx!)
Here is photo A:
Here is photo B:
Thanks for your input.
||And if you missed it: Here’s the chasejarvisLIVE episode with Mix||
A is better.
More focus on Him
Wine glass in B distorts him.
A
The face is engaging. My eye is drawn to faces – don’t think I’m alone in that. (Of course my eye is also drawn elsewhere, but you get the point…)
Definitely the first one as you can clearly see his face. The second is interesting and makes a nice artful shot, but since this is for a commercial CD cover I’d go with the one that clearly shows the artist.
100% B
A for me.
Glass covers to much of the face in B, it is a very interesting image, though for me there is something that doesn’t gel with the image of the girl in the background, they feel too much like two separate images stuck together.
With A then both portions of the image communicate much more together, and with the visual imagery of this specific music al scene