Over my summer in Barcelona I took the Computational Photography class taught by Irfan Essa. It was an interesting class where we learned how we can use computers and digital processes to create photographs that would be impossible to create with a camera alone. It was not just a class on Photoshop as we learned many techniques including high dynamic range imaging, panoramas, fourier filters, image dissection and analysis.
As we were given free reign to choose what we wanted to do for our final project I chose to create digitally averaged portraits inspired by the Face of Tomorrow project. For my subjects I used the other students and professors from the study abroad group. I took portraits of 16 women, 24 men and the 3 professors and morphed their faces together successively until I had a final digitally averaged portrait for each group. The male and female digital averages are below; the process was quite time consuming but I think the results were well worth it.
Below are tree diagrams of all the successive morphs from the original portraits to the final digital average. These diagrams clearly illustrate the actual process I went throught to create the above portraits. Some of the mot interesting morphs are those on the second level which are averages of only two people in which you can clearly see traits of both of the subjects.
