Here I am putting 4 of the best masculinity photos onto a blank A4 sheet, and cropped them so they fit each of the sheet correctly. I kept the photos in black and white as I believe it makes the photo look more detailed and interesting, it also looks a lot better as there aren’t different colours all over the page.

I wanted to keep this idea quite simple so that I don’t have too many photos with so much detail that it becomes too much, I really like how simple this one is and used two models to make it look more detailed. To make it look better I could have added a picture of a boy and a girl to show the difference in how each person stands however I like to show them off separately and not compare them.

In these photos I used a black background which does make the models features stand out a lot better, however I did also use the flash light when talking the pictures which did also influence on how the models features did show, it helped brighten them up and make them look more vibrant.

If i wanted to make it look better i could have also left two of the photos in colour and two of the photos in black and white to show a controversial look.

For this photoshop idea, I thought that overlapping the photo would make the photo look very unusual. To do this I had to layer the photos on top of each other, however I did make one of the photos bigger than the other one to make it stand out from the original photo, the reason I made this photo black and white was because the photo was taken in inspiration of Cindy Sherman where she used to take self portraits of herself to show and symbolise women’s lives back in the day.

I do really like how the bigger layer is a lot lighter than the bottom layer, it helps to see the models facial features a lot better, the idea of this photo was to show how women were treated horribly and never had any freedom, they did what they were told and that was it, they weren’t allowed to fight back and say anything as their opinion didn’t matter.

This photoshop idea almost creates an illusion, almost as if the models emotions are coming out, as they are crying, it sort of looks like their minds are slowly leaving, helping release the tears but also helping them put all their pain in the past, all behind them, it could also represent that their inner child is healing them, they are letting go of the pain while their inner child is talking to them reminding them that everything will be alright even if they only have themselves.

For this photo I used a similar concept but changed the different type of overlay. I used a pin light overlay to make it look quit dark and almost adds an orange effect to the photo. I really like how both of these turned out even if its a simple process to do to get this type of edit, it still looks quite interesting how the different colours cross over each other. For one of the photos I used a picture where you couldn’t see their face to make it look more mysterious and strange.

For this photo I kept it quite simple, by making it black and white, this photo was also inspired by Cindy Sherman. I really like this phot as it isn’t too detailed but still has enough to capture the eye. I didn’t want to make all of my final pieces to edited and wanted to keep a few simple pieces to show that I have taken some good photos with good lighting. To get this black and white effect I pressed (ctrl u) and also I positioned the saturation to -100 and the lightness to around +8, this added a slight gradient look.