Here I wanted to explore a few ways of editing my images to further convey the message I was trying to give.
For the edits above, I used an app called procreate where I downloaded the same image a few times and used a smudge tool to create smudges in the reflection. I made sure to keep certain facial features to make it clear that this was a reflection of the subject in the mirror.
Above is a set of images which I printed on paper and attempted to burn in the style of Lucas Simoes. I places the lighter beneath the images and burnt them from a slight distance. The difference between mine and his techniques is that my images were not printed on photographic paper (which is what created the warm bright colours where his burns were).
Lucas Simoes ‘Burnt’
I then took my pictures of the prints. I tried a variety of placements: some I placed on plain white paper to create a bright centre of where the burn was but then I also decided to layer the images on top of each other to create distortions . As the photographs were burnt, it created a dark line around the edges of the holes in the paper. This created a sense of shadow and that the images below were on top- whereas they were actually placed beneath.
In these images, The creation of distortions and burns were purposefully placed in both the reflection and the person. This is because the idea, that the way you are seen by others is not the same in which you see yourself, works both ways.
Jesse Draxler: Misophomia
Above are my edits inspired by Jesse Draxler.
To create these photographs I used photoshop, and on there I used the lasso tool and by freehand cut out parts of all the portrait images for a variety of angles and placed them on one image in a way I though sat best. I turned the image black and white and increased the contrast for the image to stand out more like Draxler’s work.