Photography (Level 6) Consolidated Project: Scans

22nd April 2011

I came across an image online, that I am not able to show as I can't remember where it was, of a man's face pressed against glass, which was quite light and smokey looking. I did a project last year, which contained scanned portraits, which was quite sucessful and I really loved it. I decided to play around with scanning again and wanted to scan in bish' face to see what results I'd get. Would they be as good as the other project I had done or not? Also from the image i came across it gave me an idea to get bish to smoke his sheesha pipe to produce smoke out of his mouth , then slowly breath it out as the scanner was scanning, which it would hopefully catch. I wanted to see if the image would look as good as I imagined or not. The results were not as good as I thought they would be. The smoke didnt really show up as good as Iimagined it would and in some cases it is hard to tell if it is there or not. Also, poor bish, has a big nose and it was difficult to get him close enough to the scanner to get a clear enough image of his face, without his nose looking very flat, squished and unflattering, bless.

I think the images of his hands are alot more sucessful than the ones of his face, as there is more focus and detail in the images, from the creases in his hands.

The head on images of his face are my least favourite. His nose is too big and prominent and it definately distracts away from the rest of his face.

I thought that perhaps if the background was darker then the smokle would be easier to see. It did make it more obvious and clear however it was still not exactly how i imagined. Also because the smoke was moving as the scanner was scanning it has created areas that have note scanned in propperly and in focus.

I like the images of his face form the side better than the front as his nose is not as big and prominent anymore, allowing the viewer to focus on other areas of his face and hands.