CD Cover - Mumford & Sons Awake My Soul

We were given the task to go out and and take a photo suitable for  a CD cover for an Artist or song we like right now. I didn't really have a certain idea for a song that i really wanted to do as i like alot of music so i thought my best approach would be to just go out into Blackburn and photograph subjects which i thought would make good album art and interest me.


Over the course of the day i tried a few locations in Blackburn but was not happy with the Results i was getting. I decided to go and look at the cathedral in the centre as i thought some of the Religious Artwork and the general architecture of the building could provide some good inspiration for cover artwork.

Above are my two favorite images i got at that cathedral, i thought these would make good covers as alot of bands use religious references in their music and lyrics.

Here is my finished cover. The song i choose in the end was a track called Awake My Soul by a band called Mumford & Sons which you can listen to here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DcySekLKY

I choose the track because throughout the song there is alot of references to god but in a subtle way. I also think the artwork suits the folky image of the band 

the lyrics in this song which work for with this image me are

"Awake my soul, awake my soul

        Awake my soul

  You were made to meet your

            maker

Awake my soul, awake my soul"

this is because 

in the photo there is a dove which represent free souls

As for editing the image a did a few things which i do to alot of my photos. For a start i wanted the image to be Black and White so i used a gradient map technique and i also sharpened the image and  used layering techniques to get the effects i wanted