On a serious note Brugh, get what you can afford to get Homie.
This is good shyt though (shopping), but I'll tell ya this...most people pay top dollar for photo shoots they can't really afford and when the album drops, MoFo's don't even make enough to cover the photo shoot.
Just seems MoFo's are stuck on having clean covers with garbage material on the Cd (no pun / direspect intended).
No matter who shoots your photos, your material on the Cd is what's gonna count in the end. Such albums as "The Chronic", "DoggyStyle", "Reasonable Doubt" or even "The Chronic 2001" (which was a black cover and very little graphics). The albums that came later that had the "Great" covers...it wasn't the covers that made them "GREAT" or "SELL", it was the material on the album.
Maybe it's just because we're in the era of "GREAT COVERS" on a album (the poor man's marketing), but the material on the albums fail to live up to the hype.