My Mulitplicity Shots

I did some of my own shooting to attempt to recreate some of the multiplicity shots that I previously showed. I first off tried some with two people, to get an interesting different effect and then tried some with just one person included. With two people, the composition of the image tended to get a bit more crowded which kind of took away from the point of the images. However, I did do a few takes with two people in them to gain some experience in that field:

My favourite out of all of these images is the one inside the classroom because I think it works really well together, even though some of the positions would be technically impossible. After then speaking to my teacher, I decided to try some Multiplicity photo shoots with just one person. I looked at some images of similar ideas on the Internet, and decided to make my first photo shoot a self portrait of me. I think that the picture can tell the story of how woman's lives are very busy, and they often need multiple limbs with any chance to get things done. Also, because all of the things I am holding are appearance based, it could be said that it also shows the pressure put on to young woman to look good at all times. 

I am really impressed with my editing on this image, as I think that it does like quite lifelike. I am also impressed because although it looks complicated, the process is actually quite simple. You just take the images in the same place each time, and then open them all as layers in to your photo editor. You chose which one you want to be your background and move that to the bottom of the layers. Then for the other layers you simply erase any of the image that you don't want, which means that the bits that you do want will sit on top of the background create the illusion of many arms.

After this shoot I decided that I would do another similar one but working on many different things I have learnt from this shoot, both positive and negative:

Positive:

- Editing worked well
- Composition was in centre of the frame which drew attention straight to the subject
- Looks surreal because the audience wouldn't be able to figure out how it works

Negatives:

- The background is too distracting

So working on these points I decided to try another shoot, this time with me permanently behind the camera so I would have more control over the image that would be created: