For my final portraits I took inspiration from Johnathan Ducruix’s work titled “Metamorphosis” in which he uses photoshop to manipulate the human body to show how flexible and fascinating the human body is and what it is capable of. I liked the mystery in Ducruix’s work and the uneasy viewing it has so I tried to replicate this in my photographs.

A similarity in our photographs is the lack of facial features and the mystery and uneasiness. The mystery in Ducruix’s photograph is recreated in this by the lack of context, the photograph tells nothing to the viewer – it leaves them confused and intrigued but also uneasy, This uneasiness was created by removing the facial features and placing the models in the centre of the photograph. This uneasiness was also created in Ducruix’s photographs from how unnatural and physically impossible the photograph was.

The difference in the photographs are the settings – Ducruix’s photograph is lit with quite a high exposure and uses natural tones. The high exposure and bright lighting takes away from the effect of the photograph so in my photograph I decided to use some chiaroscuro to add the the mystery and to create more contrast and shadows. I also put the photograph in black and white to create a more dramatic image.