Tomorrow is the final class for studio. For the last assignment I worked more on my "smile" series where I take a mask I got at a dentist office of a female's mouth smiling and showing her teeth and placed it in front of portraits. For this incarnation of the series I made my own masks. I shot several students with a glamour light set up (soft box above camera, straight on) and then cut out various parts of the face such as eye or eyes and mouths smiling or not smiling. I then asked people to pick there favorite facial-feature-on-a-stick and hold it up. Here is what I ended up with. I took these pictures to the next level and desaturated the backgound while leaving the mask as shot but with less contrast. I would have a set up shot with these but I ran out of card space. I set up the camera at least 6 feet from background and the camera with the focal length to its maximum to throw the background out of focus. I also had a light with a grid spot to light the backgound to help emphasize the figure.
