Final outcome ideas

After doing a lot of thinking and planning about what I would like to do for my final piece, I came to a conclusion. I want to take photos of people, relaxed and looking into the camera. I then want to manipulate these photos with different mediums such a paint, charcoal and others textures that I find interesting. After printing the photos in colour, I decided to change them to black and white. There was two reasons for this change. After visiting the Tate Modern and discovering Henry Wessel's work in which I adored the black and white colours of his pictures, I knew I defiantly wanted to use the tone of Wessel's pictures. Secondly, when I printed the photos in colour and began to work over them with paint and other mediums, it just did not work. The colour was too distracting to look at therefore you weren't focusing on the materials or mediums used. In addition to that looking at the picture as a whole just presented too much, there was simply too much going on. I decided to take two types of photos, firstly I would take a full body picture of someone standing still, looking at the camera. I would then a second picture of them without them knowing, I decided to take the picture very close to their face because the shock factor caused people to move away quickly which create movement within the background of the photo. My idea from this comes from the idea of our facial features making us distinct, so to take them away from us simply makes us indistinct. I wanted close up and full body pictures of people because as a society we judge people by there facial features, so to just be able to see a body or a background really starts to makes you think of what the actual person looks like, and how seeing there face would change your perceptions of them. To conclude, I am happy with my final outcome idea, I feel that it really represents something close to my heart.