Above is the first version of the photo on the previous page - after getting “the Treatment.” “The Treatment” involves abusing the image with Photoshop in a variety of ways - blurs, smears, overlays, adjusting levels, etc.. With the music playing in the background, and and of the story in mind behind it, the idea that developed was to suggest spirits of the dead approaching along a shoreline. The initial results were promising, so I used one in a rough mockup to check positioning:

 

 

 

Not bad, but not quite strong enough, and still a little too literal, so I worked it a little more:

 

 

 

 

Brighter. Certainly more eye-catching. I sort of liked this one. Satisfied with where it might be going, I set this one aside while I tried the same thing with different images.