growing up in a picture experiments

using the photographs of myself  I  wanted to experiment with a different technique of trying to overlay the photographs that I did in photoshop. I wanted to use a technique Ive used before using the photocopier, so instedad of just scanning them all in and overlaying the photographs in photoshop I wanted to try a more manuel proccess much more like a screen printing process, but instead of using screens and ink I used a photocopier.

they look really good its a completley differnt effect to what I did with the photoshoped images, the fact that there not completley allined gives it a completley different look, it remindes a lot like the screen prints andywarhol did for his self ptraits

i really like the effect hes used here if the prints were all completely lined up it wouldn't look as half as good but i do think it would be interesting if i could line the pictures up exactly.

Growing up in a picture (part 1)

this week iv decided to try and experiment ways in how to project images  onto myself going with the idea of projecting photographs of my self on to myself to show how I've changed through the years growing up, so i thought firstly an easy way to try and line the photograph up exactly of my face is using passport photographs. As in passport photographs you have to look straight at  the camera with no expression on your face, so these would be very similar to each other and in theory be easy to line up so, i scanned in the photographs.

about age 12

about age 14

about age 17
all ready by putting these photographs together just like this in order it was really interesting to see how iv changed throughout the years, and to see what characteristics stay the same and what change. I then had a little play in photoshop to try and overlay the photographs exactly to really give the sense of change and development

It looks really strange to see myself literally growing up in one picture, and this alone as a picture looks great. So the idea is to try and project these photographs on to my current face and see the the full change in one picture. The process I want to use is very similar to the process used by Andy Warhol  when making the video for the velvet underground, were he projects them at one of there previous shows on to them playing at gig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1vZ-7P0BKw&feature=fvwrel

 but instead of doing a video i want to do photographs but still using a very similar method and concept as Warhol

obviously technology has advanced since Warhol did this and i was able to use a computer and a digital projector making it easier to achieve, i then realised I hit a few problems the first being that I was unable to get rid of all the desktop icons so they have been projected on to me and the wall as well. Another was that there was a lot of unnecessary light being created from the desktop and the photographs and this is not the effect that I wanted, I just wanted the photograph and nothing else projected onto my face.

another problem is that with the passport photographs having a white background it created again a lot of unnecessary light, and even though the photograph looks really interesting its not what I'm looking for.

so I realised I needed to eliminate all the excess light to get a good effect so I made a note of the setup so it would a lot easier and quicker to setup again.

so i needed to eliminate all the white on the passport  photographs so it would just literally show the picture of my face, so I lassoed my face and put the background as black.

 the photographs are now ready for the studio next week so hopefully the studio will be a lot darker, so that I'm able to get the full effect  that I'm looking for.