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clones
today i made clones of myself:
i have made these before and find them to be fascinating to look at, as well as fun to make. the idea is to take a portrait, preferably one that is shot from the front and evenly lit—you might have to rotate the picture a little if the head is tilted. then split the photo in half and flip each side horizontally and match to the corresponding side—so 2 right halves to form one face and 2 left halves to form another. most people will have a dominant side that has stronger, bigger features, and a less dominant side that will look more sensitive. here are some more clones that i have made of myself in the past.
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cooool! I’ve seen this done n the past to compare which side is better for portrait photography but I love that you’ve stitched everything together. Its a very surreal effect. Nice work!
eeeee! the right clone’s neck scares me! she needs to eat a sandwich or something. and the brown turtleneck shirt isn’t helping. but seriously, this is cool and creepy. it’s interesting to see the differences in the two sides of your face.
This is very cool. It’s interesting to see the difference between both side of your face like robinde pointed out. I have my students do this when I have them make 3D self portraits in Maya. It’s easier to model half a head and mirror it. Most of us have asymmetrical faces. Each half has a different “personality” if you just look at one side mirrored. If someone has a crooked smile they might appear happy on one side and angry on the other. Its great to see all three side by side. You seem happy on both sides.
this is fascinating! I remember watching some news programme years ago where a sociologist claimed that a person’s beauty could be mathematically quanitified by the percentage of symmetry in his face, and he set out to “prove” this by having babies stare at photos of models with varying “symmetry quotients” and seeing which photos the babies would stare at more (because babies are great arbiters of pretty faces??). i thought it was bunk, but this information about having a dominant side of face is really interesting