This shoot again was more abstract and focuses on more surreal aspects in the way their identity is pretested. I wanted to use aspects of mirrors and also collage to show a representation of altered reality and identity to who someone is and who makes us who we are.This is also done in order to cover their identity with a different representation of themselves and how human behavior changes and is altered depending on the circumstances in which they are surrounded.I took this shoot in a room which the lighting was easy to control,due to the environment not being of high relevance but the main concentration upon collage and editing.
I have five main ideas for this shoot, collage,covering of identity,mirroring and using a doll to indicate a person beauty and false sense of covered identity and a lack of their real behaviour.
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edits:
for the edits I used photoshop, with the addition or real life positioning with paper in order to indicate an effects of ripping off skin and covering of identity,addtionally I did many edits focusing upon mirroring and forming surrealism illusions within how a face is formed and how we have different sides and values to ourselves which can be viewed differently by different people. for my next experimentation within this shoot I will do a collage and from an abstract afce with the remaining images.
within these four images I repeated and flipped the images and edited the angles to create an altered reality to the positioning of her face.I originally did this by the lighting technique and blocking out light on half of her face originally.
to edit this image I originally placed a piece f paper in order to introduce the angle and size of the effect that I would wants layered the image and used a lasso tool to segment the part of the skin I want to repeated and then shaped it to the size of the paper, removing access. lastly I used the smudge tool to allow a movement of the skin coming off and a pulling effect.
within this idea I wanted to develop more on human behaviour and emotion and what we show and cover as a secret to our identity,this tracks emotions to which people feel but will not consciously present to society.
best images and image analysis:
this is my favourite image as it uses many techniques of half lighting, and a mirror in order to recreate a face in a altered angle,I then repeated the image and positioned the faces to be facing each other to portray a whole face and then tonally edited the piece itself.Overall it symbolises a question of attitude and mystery to what a person thinks and presents through their behaviour to others,there is a sense of suspension of altered personalities to which are fake and not ourselves.