How I recreated Mac Miller's "Swimming" album cover for a client

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I love it when clients approach me with a vision or a challenge for me. In this case, my client Hunter wanted to recreate album cover Mac Miller's final album. I knew right away that I didn't want to copy it exactly, but I had an idea of what I wanted to do to get something similar that my client would love.

The setup as a whole was fairly simple, with 2 background lights on either side of the scene creating a pure white background, a diffused beauty dish to camera right (split light) and finally a constant light that I used to replicate the airplane window in the black box.

I used all V-flat World materials for the box itself with 2 v-flats to create a majority of the box and their new trifold table foam boards on the top and bottom of the box. I even used the v-flat carrying bags to fill in some gaps on the top and bottom of the box.

From there it was just a matter of nailing the pose and getting a shot that everyone was happy with. One thing I had to keep in mind was that since the box I was making was a lot bigger than the one on the original album cover, Hunter couldn't actually lean all the way back. To fix this I darkened the box just a touch more in photoshop. I also increased the size of the constant light (window).

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