Weird “creepy” before and after picture of haircut

So I had this idea of doing a before and after pictures for when I got a haircut. Here’s what I came up with:

Best version, probably.

This is the best that I came up with. I didn’t put a whole lot of time into it, and when taking self-portraits for it, I kinda got impatient, so I didn’t have too much to work with picture-wise. It was fun to do though. Although it might look a bit creepy, I don’t really mind how it turned out.

The steps:

1. I started off with this (v1), with no editing at all.
2. Then, I color corrected it a bit, and cloned the two together to come up with this, which is the picture that made it to facebook, which I guess makes it the official picture. =P
3. So I know that the eyes are messed up, this is because I didn’t have a haircut picture in which my head was turned the exact same way as the other picture. This made it so that while most everything else lined up, the eyes (which happen to be the most important) were too far apart. My solution to this was to use the eyes from the uncut picture to go onto the haircut picture. While this kinda makes other things not look right, I still like it better. Version 3 (also pictured above).

   In other news, I fail at posting on a regular basis.

   ~ Jon

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Video Project Finished

Here’s what I was working on:

I know there are a decent amount of quirks that I couldn’t totally iron out, but as it being my first real project, I think it turned out pretty neat.

From the description I added on vimeo and youtube:
Messing around with a slideshow-type effect in After Effects. I just did a really rough pen mask (then feathered) in Photoshop, imported each 3-layer file into After Effects, and then went from there. All this took me a ridiculous amount of time to get to my liking (mostly), but I definitely learned a lot through the process. I would just never do it for a slideshow unless I was paid by the hour. Also, I wish Think Different” wasn’t an Apple slogan. I don’t mind the company (I like their products), but I chose to avoid that phrase in the video for moral reasons.

~ Jon