How they created the cover of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’
Kirk Weddle descibes how he took that photograph for the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album:
4-month-old baby was cast and I conducted the shoot with just his parents and a lifeguard present. I placed a camera with a motor drive , in an underwater housing, mounted on a tripod at the bottom of a pool. Since kids are always an unknown at shoots, I did several prelight and prefocus passes with a doll. Once I felt I had the framing, light, and exposure dialed in; the parents slipped the child into the water. I took seven frames on the first pass and four frames on the second. As expected, the baby started to cry, this had been the babies first time underwater, and we wrapped the shoot. The dollar bill and the fishhook were stripped in in post.
Spencer Elden was that baby.
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Posted: 16th, September 2019 | In: Key Posts, Music Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
