Studio Frightening

For my studio lighting portrait photos, I didn't want to take 3 simple photographs of the subject smiling and "sitting pretty". Instead, I found inspiration (once again) from Halloween and the masks that people wear on this strange event. I wanted to add an element of confusion and wonder to each photograph to  make the viewer feel taken aback by the sight of the different distortions the subject has endured via photoshop. I took these photos on a Canon Rebel T2i with an 18-55mm lens. I used a shutter speed of 1/60 s and an aperture of f22. The properties of light in photography (brightness, colour, contrast and direction) are evidently used in each photograph to obtain characteristic likeness of the subject. I speficially like the different directions of each light source (reletive to the subject and the lens) in every photograph; I feel like it gives the photos diversity. How ever unflattering the extra body parts are...there are no unflattering shadows. It was funny to see the looks on people's faces when I was taking these photos; they just looked over with a blank stare with no emotional or mental attachment what-so-ever to the typical, posed faces and positions of the subject. When these same people looked over at the computer after the photographs had turned into confusing (and maybe disturbing) images...they're expressions had totally changed. That in itself was an amazing feeling because I could see that they were feeling something towards something that I created; that is the satisfaction I crave as being a photographer.