Potential Cd Cover Photos

Above are two of our potential Cd Cover photgraphs that we took of our friend Ricole.
She is playing the lead role in our music video, and acting as the artist. We decided to change our ideas, as we originally wanted a photograph of all of thye characters together, although through our research we did earlier on, we decided that the majority of Cd covers tend to focus mainly on the artist alone.
I feel that it is important to show her alone also as it attracts more attention, the audience have one thing to focus on and are aware of who she is and what she represents. The original artist of the song Katy Perry is a very succesful woman and is presented alone on most of her albumns, we thought this was relevant for our cd cover.
We have a choice of two here that we are finding hard to chose between, they are very different from one another, each adopting two completely different poses.
The first one shows her standing up, leaning slighty to the left, with an arm on her hip and doing the 'Peace' sing with her fingers, adding attitude and character to the photograph. I like this photo as it is fun and i believe will attract an audience. I think the pose she is doing is different and portrays the theme of girls just having fun, and the stereotypical view of a 'Vegas' girl. However, i also really like the other photograph we took; Ricole is sitting down and is holding a lighter in between her legs, being the centre at the bottom of the photograph. This pose seems more simple, but i am pleased with it as it refelcts a 'bad girl' pose, the lighter suggests she is acting 'hard' and doesn't care or have a care for anything. She is looking up into the camera, from a low angle to a high angle, one of her eyebrows is slightly raised and she is smirking. I like this look a lot as it gives off a lot of character, it isn't drastic or busy it is just simple, yet the focus of her face acts as it is looking at the audience and will immediately attract their attention to her.
Both covers i feel will be a success if designed correctly, yet we will now try both, and see what one works best with the song choice!