EXPERIMENT FOUR - GETTING CHOOSY/PROFILE & 3/4 VIEW
Now I began thinking, what if I were more selective? I tried masking out the features that I liked the best on each model, and ended up with this ‘favorite parts’ average.
Here I started over with color photographs, and tried setting the models I liked the best to a higher opacity, and ended up with this ‘favorite dude.’
-PROFILE
Feeling comfortable with the frontal view, I tried a profile average. I found this to be even more generic looking than the frontal view, but it was still interesting. Seems most profiles don’t vary much, but notice how strange the ears look! Ear placement and size of cranium are one of the biggest variations in the pictures. This was my first all color from the beginning experiment, and I never went back to black and white!
A year later I tried re-jimmying the settings and ended up with a slightly more distinctive lad.
-THREE QUARTER
The natural next step was a three quarter shot. This proved tricky as there is a lot of variation in angle with three quarter shots. I eliminated pictures to a very particular angle, and ended up with a rather lovely image.
Changing the weights
For fun I tried masking out only eyes that were looking to the right
A year later, I tried some different settings.
NEXT UP: The final installment of my facial averaging experiments, including my conclusion.EXPERIMENT FIVE… IT’S… UH… GOING TO BE POSTED SOON?
Notes
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kaitlinpowell said:
This experiments you’re posting are awesome. I’ve been reading every one of these so far. Is seems fitting that I think of Interview with a Vampire every time I look at these pictures.
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