WPC 1338 - Album Cover Redux ANALYSIS: cifuent has graciously volunteered the WPC 1338 - Album Cover Redux entry for critique and analysis to find out what they could have done to make...

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

cifuent has graciously volunteered the WPC 1338 - Album Cover Redux entry for critique and analysis to find out what they could have done to make it better. Be nice, but be honest as this will help everyone with their craft. Thank you cifuent and thank you everyone!

from WPC 1338 - Album Cover Redux RESULTShttp://www.uglyhedgehog.com/photo_contest_ratings.jsp?pcnum=81

Andy Warhol, for Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967

from http://uploads5.wikipaintings.org/images/andy-warhol/velvet-underground-nico.jpg

cifuent

Thank you, Luis

Nightski

St3v3M wrote:

cifuent has graciously volunteered the WPC 1338 - Album Cover Redux entry for critique and analysis to find out what they could have done to make it better. Be nice, but be honest as this will help everyone with their craft. Thank you cifuent and thank you everyone!

from WPC 1338 - Album Cover Redux RESULTShttp://www.uglyhedgehog.com/photo_contest_ratings.jsp?pcnum=81

cifuent, I am curious why you chose this album cover. The original cover looks much more like clip art. I think it's extremely hard to produce a clip art looking album cover from a photograph. Also, did you know that you can do a search for fonts on the internet? You can submit a graphic of the font you are looking for at myfonts.com and people will help you figure out what it's called. dafont.com is good place to search for fonts. The Andy Warhol lettering is named Royale. I recognized it right away. The other lettering I would have to do a search for. I would say that if you are going to do an album cover like that, it would be good to get the fonts right. I think you needed a banana that was a little more ripe too, but you could have done that in PP.

cifuent

Thank you for the information about fonts: I will take good note of it. I was not sure if we were meant to replicate as closely as possible the original or rather keep a relative, creative distance from it. My interest in the cover had to do with the different media: Warhol's banana was a silkscreen of a drawing, although he often worked with photographs; I decided to play with a photograph of a banana and see if I could make it look somewhat painterly. You are right that the banana should have been riper if it were to exactly reproduce Warhol's, and I even thought of using a black magic marker to make it look so, but then, again, it was my banana, not Warhol's. Obviously, though, I did not succeed at creating an intriguing balance between distance and proximity, similarity and difference. Next time, maybe...

Nightski

cifuent wrote:

Thank you for the information about fonts: I will ... (show quote)

Well, cifuent, you can't judge by the votes you received. You don't know why people vote as they do. You certainly could be right about what was expected. I not good at working "Out of the Box" so to say, so it was my intention to replicate it as closely as possible. And you know? Sometimes I really need to get out of that box to get the great shot, instead of the good shot. So good for you that you didn't feel as confined by the challenge as I did.

Nightski

[quote=cifuent]Thank you for the information about fonts: I will take good note of it. I was not sure if we were meant to replicate as closely as possible the original or rather keep a relative, creative distance from it. My interest in the cover had to do with the different media: Warhol's banana was a silkscreen of a drawing, although he often worked with photographs; I decided to play with a photograph of a banana and see if I could make it look somewhat painterly. quote]

cifuent, I just got elements 11, and I was watching a tutorial this morning. It has a feature called "comic" that I think would have been perfect for pp'ing your banana. Do you have elements 11? You can get it for a ridiculously low price and it has tons of features. Hope I'm not bugging you, but your album cover came to mind when I saw this feature.

cifuent

You are not bugging me: I am honored that you though of my cover when experimenting with elements 11. I do not have elements. Unfortunately, I have had no time to explore all those fantastic tools. I am limited to taking photographs as best I can and then using (if I need to) the rather elementary resources that come with any Mac computer. If and when I get some more time for photography, I assure you that I will devote it to those other experiments with the computer. In the meantime, many thanks for your thoughtful suggestions, L.

Sunrisepano Loc: West Sub of Chicago

Was the "A" in "UNDERGROUND" intentional?

cifuent

Sunrisepano wrote:

Was the "A" in "UNDERGROUND" intentional?

No! It was a typo! What is worse, I only realized it was there when you mentioned it... Too hasty a job. I have to say that I often find typos telling, but not this one; this one is merely embarrassing...

Nightski

cifuent wrote:

No! It was a typo! What is worse, I only realized it was there when you mentioned it... Too hasty a job. I have to say that I often find typos telling, but not this one; this one is merely embarrassing...

cifuent, you should have said, "Yes, it was my creativity at work". LOL .... Little humor goes a long way sometimes. I have to laugh at myself many a time. :-D

cifuent

You are aright, but I was just too embarrassed with the silly typo...

10MPlayer Loc: California

Funny, I'm a stickler for spelling and grammar, except when I'm being colloquial. I didn't notice it until you mentioned it. I looked at both images several times to see what Ms. Nightski was commenting on and missed it.

cifuent

English is not my first language, so I try to be especially careful with spelling, but sometimes I just do not see the mistake or the typo (until the third or fourth reading, that is). I often make spelling mistakes that are funny or interesting. At other times, the mistakes are simply embarrassing.

MagicMark

St3v3M wrote:

cifuent has graciously volunteered the WPC 1338 - Album Cover Redux entry for critique and analysis to find out what they could have done to make it better. Be nice, but be honest as this will help everyone with their craft. Thank you cifuent and thank you everyone!

from WPC 1338 - Album Cover Redux RESULTShttp://www.uglyhedgehog.com/photo_contest_ratings.jsp?pcnum=81

This image (the first one) is beautiful. If I were to improve something it would be the text. I would make the text in the upper portion a little more in line with the banana.

But other than that it's great! :)

Nightski

cifuent wrote:

English is not my first language, so I try to be especially careful with spelling, but sometimes I just do not see the mistake or the typo (until the third or fourth reading, that is). I often make spelling mistakes that are funny or interesting. At other times, the mistakes are simply embarrassing.

Hey cifuent, don't worry about it. There are lots of people here that were raised in this country, and they can't spell or write a proper sentence. You're doing just great. :thumbup: Welcome to UHH, by the way. :-D