Research on composite portrait

What is composite portraiture? A composite portrait is a compilation of portrait photographs mixed and matches to meld together, for example. If I take a picture of a farther and a son, I can use photoshop to mix their faces together to make them hold and more often than not will show similarities, matching them up from the eyes, the nose, the lips, the chin.

The several links above are research I have done on the subject and there will be more added with time, overall I have found this to be an interesting subject to study and even more so to practice, my experiments have shown me that it can be very difficult to preform this if you are overly OCD about how things look and that it can take quite some time to find a correct match, but I did manage to create a experimental picture that I really liked, it was a combination with me, Gandalf and George RR Martin. Three who don't exactly look alike but it did go together rather well after some tweaking about with it. 

I was happy enough with it, so I posted it here. I found it to be both an enjoyable process but also frustrating due to my inability to correctly to match it up and then when I did I had erased to much from the other picture, however once I got the hang of it, it became a simple process. I like this one because it shows three different face that I did not think would fit, yet to my pleasant surprise they did.










Overall I did like doing this project but it's something I would like more time to work on, I think if i spend another week on experimenting and working on it I would produce a much strong piece than I did, if I got chance to do this again, I would love to try and replicate some of Nancy Burson's work, get that unique look.


Research notes:

http://nancyburson.com/ - Photographer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_portrait

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2435688/The-average-woman-revealed-Study-blends-thousands-faces-worlds-women-look-like.html - Interesting topic, must do further research

http://faceresearch.org/students/averageness - http://faceresearch.org/demos/average - http://faceresearch.org/