Does it work? Or doesn't it? Hmmmm

Now having played around with one of the images I shot I have come up with the image below.

This my first attempt. I then thought I would have a go at adding some text and seeing how I could lay the text round the image. Thus I came up with the following image.

I opened up the image in Photoshop Elements and played around with the colours. I took down the greens and yellows to make the image look like it was taken at night and not in the bright midday sun. I like the typography on the image however I don't like Nikki's right hand. She has a gold knuckle duster ring on, which I like, but it looks like she was giving me a two finger salute (which she wasn't) and I have chopped her fingers off. Also the image doesn't really have the 'exploitation' feel I was hoping to give the cover. It does have a feel to it of the GHD advert below. I am contemplating asking Nikki to come back and model again when we will have more time and I can take my time with the shots and work on the details and composition.

(Fig1. GHD Twisted Fairytales Marketing Campaign, 

photo by Tim Brett Day 2009)