Slum Village 4 - Fantastic Vol. 2 (2 U F U)

For my first get pushed challenge, I was partnered with Pleun*

 

www.flickr.com/photos/pleun/

 

She has lots of nice photos that make me want to travel and I really enjoyed browsing her photos and seeing them evolve. She takes great portraits too.

 

Originally she challenged me to take a portrait of a child. It's true, I have no pictures of children. But, I need to wait a few days to take pictures of my friends's kids. I was worried about angering some parents. I know I wouldn't want some strange dude taking pictures of my kids.

 

So, she followed up with a second challange.

 

"Well now I know you used to work in radio, that gave me the idea for the alternative challenge: make your own cd cover for one of your favorite cd's. How's that?"

 

How's that?

 

Great!

 

I love music. Always have. The hardest thing was choosing an album. I had 4 choices and Decided to use "Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2"

 

I ended up with 4 photos that I thought would make a good album cover.

 

A Hasselblad 500cm was perfect for this!!! Square format for an automatic record/cd cover.

 

I wandered around listening to the album on repeat as I shot for inspiration.

 

My inspirations were. Hip hop, chill vibe, romance, graffiti and slums.

 

Each picture I paired with my favorite song of the album.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRcb9kGLTWM

 

This one was my favorite shot, and my submission for the Get Pushed group.

 

This project was a lot of fun, and i'll definitely try it again with another album

 

Thanks for the great challenge Pleun*

Done