A friend of mine asked me to Photoshop together an image of a bunch of his relatives and family friends onto a sailboat. He gave me a handful of photos and some digital images to work from and left the rest up to me. Since some of the people in the images were basically just head shots I ended up taking a photo of a boat, grabbing photos of boat related people and compositing the heads of the relatives onto the nautical bodies and then Photoshopping the bodies onto the boat. For most of the women in the photo, I used the bodies of pirate costume models so the faces of 40-60 year old women on the bodies of 19 year old fashion models.
The thing I find really interesting is that when my friend presented the photo to the group of people, the majority of them had no problem at all recognizing everyone else in the photo but they could not recognize themselves. I wonder if people in general have a difficult time recognizing their own face out of context or if its perhaps middle aged people are more aware of their body than their face.
Greg
