Continuing portraits for photography unit

I feel a lot of frustration at the moment, and confusion. I am surrounded by people who share the same passion for me, but why am i feeling alone? i have so much passion for art and learning and i feel like i am alone in this a lot, do some people not see what i see? am i over thinking it? when i express my passion i see rolling eyes and no response... how can someone have no passion for this? how can someone who has been on the same path as me not see what i see? or care? 

I keep thinking about what i came on this course to do. Learn. And perhaps distance myself from people who do not hold value for this course in the same way i do, i am scared of loosing myself in that way of thinking and not progressing in the way i could or that i want too and giving up, I just need to keep my head down and continue to progress.

To continue my series of portraits i started with this image of Ryan and built it up, i did this digitally but i think i will build it up more. i stopped here so i could work more over it. I left it for now to come back to later.

 

I decided to do one of my cat, again digitally and building it up, with these ones it was difficult to take the photographs of her as, obviously, she moves around a lot, i needed to have a really quick shutter speed to capture her from different angles. I started by cropping all the images i took and adding different filters or playing with the contrast and highlights before layering them up.

I needed to keep in mind that i still wanted the image to be clear what it was of, so adding the images to the right place they would be and building up the sides of the image and then the face.

 I didn't think this worked so well with this image so i tried again building on top of this image making the face clearer, i found this worked well, as i can really see the structure of the face.

I wanted to try this out at college in the studio, with my sister i realised i really like to emphasis the eyes, as going back to the idea of capturing how someones looks in real life and in motion ect. the eyes are something i notice in people a lot.

I overlaid one of the eyes on top of this image and it thought it was a nice touch visually, I really like these images and i want to print them out next week and make a collage out of them on paper. It was defiantly easier in the studio with the black background. I think this is a very interesting series of images, but i thought how can i expand on it?

I actually did this by mistake, while i was overlaying images i put the wrong on on and it just fell into place on top of the ones i has taken. i like this and wanted to see if i could compact all of them onto the one face.I decided to do another one with my sister

I LOVE  this one, it reminded me of a Hannah Hoch collage!. I think i can expand on it and bring more people into the studio at college and progress from there later. I have images on a camera that i will print out next week and make into a collage, that is my next step in this series!