i've been studying the work of a lot of fashion photographers lately, and i came across an ad campaign by steven meisel the other day, for lanvin. he did a series of shots where he was duplicating half of the image in photoshop and flipping it around, to make a whole out of two halves. the effect was really interesting, surreal but not immediately identifiable. since i've been working on my photoshop a bit here lately, i thought i'd give it a shot.
so this is my initial attempt. i'm about to modify the idea slightly.... i have a few tweaks to try that i think will improve the overall concept.... the lighting in my shot isn't as good as in his. i was thinking one hard light source would create a lot of interesting shadow areas on the form, but the hard light created problems in terms of facial symmetry, and took away some of the close-to-reality-but-a-little-bit-off quality that meisel's picture has. adding a soft fill light will probably help.
version 2 coming soon......
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