My band did a demo recording a while back, and discussing the cover art for the project we decided we wanted something colorful and with a sense of movement and flow (ie groove) which we felt our music conveys.

So being nominated for the job, I dug out a photo I took many years back in a discoteque in the Algarve. I was on a balcony overlooking the dance floor, and as they switched on the strobe light I wondered what would happen if I left my shutter open (yes, I rarely went anywhere without my SLR in those days) and let the strobe do the flash work...

What resulted was an amazing blend of static and blur depending on who was in full flow and who was taking a nanosecond pause. I had the exposure on auto so the camera would decide itself when it had enough light for a balanced image. The original format was landscape 1:1,5 so I needed to crop to square format to fit a standard CD box cover. Not much post pro, I just enhanced overall saturation and tweaked color levels till I got something that looked appropriate.

I used a simple text font for the name of the band in the upper left, credits and titles were on the inside cover which was also based on this image.

Original image shot with a Canon EOS 100 + EF 28-80 USM on Fuji 100 ISO print film.