In my last photography assignment, I was intending to take normal people and without using photoshop, make them look like dangerous, supernatural creatures. The top photo is from http://sajda-osaidism.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-scary-night.html. The bottom photo is from one of my photo shoots.
I realized before my photo shoots that photos of normal humans are made more scary by eerie lighting, and from nighttime shots. Also, I noticed that one of the most frightening aspect of a photo is to mess with the person's eyes. I think that is because we usually look into each other's eyes to be able to communicate, and understand another person. As soon as we can not connect to that person, they are reduced to being beast like.
In the top photo, it is also at night, and the girl's eyes definitely have an unnatural glow about them from the lighting of the photo. In my photo, I had my friend wear bottle caps over top of his eyes. Both of them are also doing sort of discomforting things. In the top photo she is simply staring. It looks as though she can see into your soul even though she is just a child. In my photo, he looks like a non-thinking creature and seems hungry.
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