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After looking at the cover with an unbiased eye I have to say that I'm a little disappointed with whoever was the photographer (and if it's who I think it is I hope one day I can replace him and do better justice for fashion photographers and Ayu fans). As a semi-professional photographer who is planning on becoming a professional I find a lot of things wrong. For example, the text placement of her name. The photographer as well as the art director should have thought of a better composition so that it wouldn't look like Ayu's name was randomly thrown on to the image where there was space. Second is some of the placement of her hair. While I don't have a problem with the style I do have a MAJOR problem with the little fluff of hair coming out from behind her ear. It's distracting and causes the eye to focus on it instead of the image as a whole. My third problem and the last one I'll mention is her head placement and the background directly behind her. First of all it looks like the just photoshopped her head onto a different picture of her. I keep feeling there is a disconnect between her neck and head. Also they should have noticed the peach color triangle on the T.V behind Ayu. It makes it look like it's part of her neck at first glance. If I was to turn something in like that to my studio teacher he would kill me. Well I hope I really didn't offend anyone with my critique of the 2CD + DVD cover. While I'm not going to say it's a bad album because of one cover I do wish the photographer, art director, and Ayu would have noticed these things so they could have turned a mediocre photo into a brilliant one.
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