Another CD Cover

I know it's no excuse, but I haven't blogged in a while because I have been busy... really busy. Actually, between a full time day job, two businesses, a family, friends, and daily life, I am surprised I have time to eat and sleep, but somehow it all works itself out. I know a lot of people that do a lot of things, so I am by no means special, it's just a fact of life.

But that is not what I wanted to blog about. I really wanted to update you with another CD cover I did for Stacy, the dancer from Austin. I have plans to do a total of three or four of these covers, but I have only been able to work on two of them so far. The first was a copy of a Tupac cover for his "Best Of" album. Now I am copying a Lil' Kim cover. I like this one a lot. First of all, Stacy was a blast to work with and creating this image was a lot of fun. Let me know what you think.

This is the original Lil' Kim cover that was the inspiration for the copy below.

This is the mocked up version. Not exactly the same, but pretty close.

Breakin' all the rules

Here, Stacy is in her traditional break dancing outfit.

She is part of Austin's Urban Transit crew. Don't let her petite

size fool you, she can bust a move with the best of them.

A week ago, I photographed Stacy, a local dancer. When I met her about a year ago, she was working her way through college teaching dancing to kids and waiting tables. Since that time, we have continued to stay in touch. She has always talked about her plans to go to Las Vegas to dance professionally. Well, now she is a college graduate from Texas State and she is getting ready to fulfill her dream. My part in that plan is simple. She needed some photos in various dancing poses as well as some headshots for her resume. The other week, we were finally able to coordinate a photo shoot in Austin. The two images you see here is only a small sample of what we did. Since Stacy is a trained dancer, she is well versed in all genres of dance. We took photos of her doing ballet, contemporary, break dancing, and 80's Flashdance style poses. In fact, Stacy is part of a dance crew in Austin called Urban Transit. If you haven't heard of them, check them out on YouTube. They are really good. The crew participates in competitions all over Texas.

But back to the photo shoot... Stacy feels much more comfortable being serious or even goofy in front of the camera than she does being sexy. But trust me, she can do the latter very well too. After taking several hundred pictures of Stacy in various dance outfits and poses, we transitioned to more sexy FHM or Maxim magazine style photos. Finally, we wrapped up the day by posing in the style of some of Stacy's favorite hip-hop artist's CD covers. I plan to Photoshop the copy onto the images to mock up the CD covers with Stacy on them instead of Tupac, 50 Cent, and Lil' Kim.

This pose is a copy of a Tupac CD cover from his album

Best of Tupac Part 1: Thug. Stacy posed in the style of three

different artists' CD covers including Tupac, 50 Cent, and Lil' Kim.

Stacy, I hope you had fun and I wish you the best in Vegas. If you make it as a dancer, drop me a line and let me know. I'd love to make it out there to see you. Of course, I will expect complimentary tickets and backstage passes! :)