Flying through a brainstorm here, bear with me. This is a picture of a face broken down into six components. Each component is a different picture representing a certain emotion or narrative. There are two additional shots on the "shoulders" of the forehead (I know that sounds odd, lol) and they are the classic angel and demon confidants. Working this through my head is what generated the cover I used for my process book.
Actually sitting down and taking these shots was interesting. First of all, I used a tripod and a backdrop (a blue towel FTW!) and established a posture I couldn't easily lose and tried to move only the component shot I was taking. So one shot of a smile... one shot of a snarl... so on and so on. The interesting part was looking at the results. I don't normally look at myself in such a critical method. It's your face, you know. I look at it to make sure there is nothing in my teeth or to see if I need to shave. Now I'm looking at it like I would any other school work, and the contrast in thinking there is not to be understated. Tsk tsk... what is that freckle there for? I didn't want that there. What about this snaggle tooth? Wtf am I supposed to do with that? lol At one point it just kind of hit me that I was sitting there critiquing my face and hadn't really thought about it. So that was kinda funny.
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