Portrait Manipulation
I took inspiration from Elenora Clark for this shoot. As she manually adds texture onto her subjects faces using various textures defacing the person. I firstly put white face paint and salt onto certain parts of my subjects face, I then added black, grey and white makeup to the eyes and lips. I got my subject to stand in different simple poses and look in different directions; I also tried to get closer up shots so that the textures on the face were emphasised. I did this shoot in the studio using a Nikon SLR camera. I am pleased with the outcome of these photos and think the textures have worked well. To develop from this shoot I am going to look at different ways of adding to the image after it has been printed looking at the artist/photographer Michelangelo De Battista.
These are my most successful images from the shoot. I like the angles and tones within the images and I think the textures have worked well. I have slightly edited these images in Photoshop to ensure there are no blemishes on the subjects face and the colours are solid. I am pleased with how these images have turned out.
As well as adding textured directly onto my subjects face I also printed the image out and added more texture. For the first one I did this using a spatula and thick black and white paint. I then added the salt that I used previously onto certain parts of the image. I like the impact this gives as it is only on the bottom part of the image so immediately draws the eye; I then scanned this image in. I also printed out the second image and applied black and white paint a different way, by dragging it across the image- using card, and then also printing lines across the eyes. I then scanned this edited image in and printed it out again and added wax and sand on top of the image, I think this has worked okay but I am going to look more at the colours so that the wax and sand doesn't give of a grey tone.
Using the second scanned edited image I also edited it in Photoshop, by adding more black and white lines to the image only across the eyes. I think this has worked well as the lines are more vivid with more solid colours. This is a heavily manipulated portrait photography, and I am going to continue this technique, manipulating the image before photographing it and after it have been printed.