Ideas and intentions- Based on work of others

One of the ideas I have for my final piece is to show the transformation between two people, older and younger. 

 These two photos are the sort of thing I want, the exception being the line in the centre. I want it to be more of a blend to give the impression that one face is becoming the other. This would be difficult to do with two people who don't have similar facial features, as they wouldn't match, so in order to produce a clean image I will try and take photos of people who look similar despite their age. A mother and daughter, or father and son for example. It'll probably be easier to do with people of the same        gender but I might give alternate genders a try as well to see how it looks.


Another idea is to somehow incorporate drawings into the photographs I take. I'll probably draw using photoshop because that way they can be drawn straight on and printed whole, plus I generally prefer drawing digitally due to how easy it is to press 'ctrl+z' when something goes wrong. Although, there are lots of things I could do with drawings, I was thinking of maybe replacing part of the photograph with drawing, so having half of a face drawn and the other half real. I could also just replace certain features or draw the head and leave the body or vice versa, I could even just draw a completely different head/body to replace the existing one. I don't even have to use a person, so I could photograph a landscape and simply draw on trees or make it more complex and take a beautiful field and make it post-apocalyptic or steam punk etc. The possibilities are endless but I was inspired by the work of Annica Klingspor, Robert Nilsson and Anna Klein. They worked together to on a project which in my opinion produced some really beautiful results.

I think these pictures are very effective, the use of black and white helps to almost blur the lines between reality and fantasy so I'm going to experiment with b+w and different hues, saturations, clarities etc.