For my self portrait I decided to follow the style of Timothy Bailey.
I began by taking two pictures, one of myself face on, and one from the side. In photoshop, I then proceeded to cut around my side profile using the magnetic selection tool, leaving only the wall with my face cut out of the photo. I then removed the background from my head shot, and duplicated the background from my profile, using the stamp tool to airbrush any imperfections. This ensured the background was the same shade and blended seamlessly into the other image’s background.
Once I had these three layers set, I began resizing my headshot so that both the nose and lips matched up on both layers Once this was done, I merged the layers together before bleaching it and adding a vignette to the image in Lightroom.
Using my self as a model for this style meant I could retake any pictures as I need them, and I am glad I did so as it was very difficult to align the two pictures up perfectly.
Before settling on this artist as inspiration, I also experimented with the style of Massimo Corvaglia. The results, however, were not clear, and they didn’t have the effect I hoped they would.
