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| | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 | I am workin on my cover art for my band's cd I used my bolt...it combines two loves, old trucks and sweet guitars what do you guys think? Picture 1 - click me Picture 2 - Click Me
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -D. Parker 1951 Chevy 3100 | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 14 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 14 | Great concept! Awesome composition on the cover, with neat lighting. You the photographer? | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 | yeah i mess around with cameras a bit
thanks..
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -D. Parker 1951 Chevy 3100 | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 154 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 154 | very nice.
what kind of music do you guys play?
i'd love to listen a bit.
i was just playing a basement show with some friends of mine last night.
.later days.
.sam.
1969 K20 , with a '67 front clip. fleetside. 292, 3x1 offy, headers. sm465 4spd. getting put back together, almost ready for paint. doing it all myself. 19 and lovin' it. "proper" is so over-rated. .later days. .sam.
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 | well, it's a mix of ramones and social distortion, naked raygun.. stuff like that
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -D. Parker 1951 Chevy 3100 | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 154 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 154 | whoa.
do you guys have a site?
or..dare i say it..a myspace? lol.
i'd love to hear it.
.later days.
.sam.
1969 K20 , with a '67 front clip. fleetside. 292, 3x1 offy, headers. sm465 4spd. getting put back together, almost ready for paint. doing it all myself. 19 and lovin' it. "proper" is so over-rated. .later days. .sam.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 | Hi Mike - I changed your IMG to URL so that the guys with slow dial up can choose to look at the picture or not but they can preview the post to choose. Also some people in other countries have to pay by the byte so this way they can just look at one picture or the other. And as a professional photographer, I can also say nice job with the pix!  | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,158 | After considering the two, I think I like the second marginally better than the first.
The license plate and the grille make it. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 236 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 236 | I take it the band's name is the Layabouts from the first pic. While I prefer the second pic from a purely aesthetic point of view, you may want to see how it looks with the band's name incorporated into the pic. Unfortunately, I don't think you could get a realistic looking license plate if you overlayed the bands name in place of the license plate number. I think that it's important that you incorporate the band's name into the CD cover.
58 Fleetside, 235, "The Old Buckin' Bronco"
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 738 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 738 | I like the first pic a lot more than the second. I might change the font on the band name just a bit. I think that the first picture just has something to it that I like more. I would go with the first one.
Kyle
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton My Machine | | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | A real artist, lookin good. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 | Thanks for all your kind words of encouragement.
Sam, to answer your question, we do have a demo and yes it up on myspace, however we recorded it in the basement with a lap top, our singer was just learning to sing, and his voice a a bit off..
I will paly with placing text in the second pic...
the plate is the farm plate my truck came with...
it has new plates, but I left the farm one on, to keep the truck like I found it.. I am not sure about what it is that makes the first one so appealing... maybe the curves of a 51...contrasted with the guitar, the second one was the original concept.. I wanted the grille, headlight and plate in the shot... the first one was a whim, an after thought... Kinda funny I disobeyed some major photo rules and shot these at 1 in the afternoon, the sun was directly over head.. ah well I got lucky. I think it is pretty easy to take good shots of our trucks, they all have such great lines, something sorely missed in todays auto industry.
Thanks for the feedback... If I mess around again with the camera, I will be sure to post.
m
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -D. Parker 1951 Chevy 3100 | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 154 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 154 | Mike;
i really dig your guys' sound.
as soon as my friends band posts some samples up, i'll be sure to link you to it.
and then when we start a Ska band..which'll be in the next week or 2. i'll probably mess around with some album art, so yeah.
way to keep it classic man.
.later days.
.sam.
1969 K20 , with a '67 front clip. fleetside. 292, 3x1 offy, headers. sm465 4spd. getting put back together, almost ready for paint. doing it all myself. 19 and lovin' it. "proper" is so over-rated. .later days. .sam.
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 |
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -D. Parker 1951 Chevy 3100 | | | | | Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 10 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 10 | Post number 1 for me!
I'd pick photo number 2.
Take care,
cc
BTW, I love the concept!
(i play bass guitar) | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,438 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,438 | nice... i dont know if i'd want my lic plate number all over the world tho.
Another quality post.
Real Trucks Rattle
HELP! The Paranoids are after me!
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 424 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 424 | Hey Mike 1951, I'm a graphic artist so I played with your image a little. I hope you don't mind. What do you think of this? Layabouts pic | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 | that's not the real plate... that is an old one that came with the truck
I like what you did gold...
it's sweet
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -D. Parker 1951 Chevy 3100 | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 424 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 424 | | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 127 | I sent the pictures I took into old skool rodz...
On a whim... maybe I'll get published..
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -D. Parker 1951 Chevy 3100 | | |
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