Album artwork experiments

Here are some experiments with photographs of my "artist" that I could use as album artwork:

I took these photos in an area that I used within my music video. I found the location picturesque, with the fallen autumn leaves and the trees growing in unusual shapes in front of the empty field.
I decided to try a "vintage" effect on the photographs. I did this by blending a mix of blurs, yellow layers and blue layers, as well as brightening the image. I like the effect of the vintage style, as it works well with the genre. Although, I will try reducing the contrast levels to reduce the vibrancy of the colours a little...

These are copies of the photos with reduced contrast. 

This is another image I could use for my album artwork. The subject's face is extremely emotive, which is reinforced by the highly contrasted lighting, bright whites and deep blacks. 

This is a cropped version of the image above. It makes a close up image of the subject's face, like the close up used in other album covers, for instance Ed Sheeran's album: 

I also added a fade to the edges of the image to further make the face the subject of the image.