I messed around with editing the pictures I took while on holiday to make them look more 'finished'. I decided black and white looked better... the colour was just to bright and.. happy. The black and white seems more sinister and adds more contrast to the image really making the body stand out. I'm unsure if these look like I've just edited and blended away the image... as I don't really want it too look as though I edited. It just has a simplistic format to me which I think works   well. 

I recently came across this artist, Asger Carlsen, whos photo manipulations I LOVE. Some of the images to have to 'double take' as your unsure of what they are when you first look at them. I love that quality.
Also on a few of the images I actually thought they were people with deformations although others its pretty obvious but I still got myself going 'omg what?'
Heres some of his images....

Okay so posting these photos I sound crazy saying I thought they were real,.. but honestly theres some more realistic ones. He has a hole load! Really disappointed his books are out of print :(

These have such a sculpture vibe to me (I dont know if I'm saying that right).. but they seem more than just photographs to me.  He also does manipulation with his models eyes too, which Im already interested in editing and changing eyes. Im unsure why I'm so intrigued by eyes I just am. I'm not gonna fight it. 

sometimes accidents are exciting

So I've been pretty rubbish at keeping up to date throughout summer, with working and what not.
Although I thought I'd share some of the stuff I've been look at (not much tbh).
When on holiday, I was messing around with taking panoramic photos on my camera. As these are a layer of three images - they sometimes have bits which are a bit 'wrong' in them. I'm unsure why but I just really loved some of the images I created basically by accident or luck.. which ever way you look at it. They particularly seem to go wrong when there people involved in the images, as the people move - so they end up with limbs missing or gained. I'm not sure if this is relevant to my art practise at the moment. Although I thought I'd post them up here and bare them in mind anyhow.

They almost come across a collage image, or perhaps something which I've edited and blended or something. I think thats why I love them to much though as they've got that randomness about them... almost lack of controlling the outcome. They aren't the strongest images, although I've been looking into cropping them up a bit so its not so clear as they are panoramic images.

These then appear to be usual photos just with only half of the body on display.