For this weeks posting i decided to pick this album cover for Jill Scotts cd, it was on of few cover that caught my attention. In this picture, she is leaning up against the wall and you are abla to see a man in the background, but not very well. the lighting in this picture is very bright, but the amount of light is not so much directed at her. In her album its self it has a lot to do with the romancing of couple, and the passion through music within a relationship, i think thhat is why you see the man in the background of the cover looking toward her.

Lighting

In this cover there is a good use of side lighting, you can see how it reflects her shadow on to the side of the wall where she is leaning. There is also a high key lighting coming from behind her, which also causes the man in the bcakground of the picture to almost be washed out. This lighting causes contrast in the picture, (the man in the backgound).

Color

There is a good use of color ocntrast in this cover, it helps to excentuate jill scott as the ablum’s cover main objective. There doesn’t seem to be a high key color or a low key color, its hrad to tell because the are no perticulra colors that stand out thats fall in to a high or low key cataglory.  

Framing

In the cover they there is a wall or piller that stands off to the side. It doesn’t quite get washed out with the rest of the background but it help to bring out Jill Scott. the framing of this cover, i thought was good becasue it bring the focuse in on the artist, it washes out half of the picture its self leaving the artist as its main focuse, as it should be.

Composition

The focal point in this picture is of course Jill Scott, but i also think that she shares it with the actual title of her album, the size of the words and the color of the words themselves, go well with the contrast in the background of the photo. At the same time, Jill Scott is not in the center of the photo, it gives the viewer an oppertunity to see everything better then if she were in the very middle.