Creating the shadow images

In order to create the shadow finals I just inverted my three fully edited images. Then by simply creating a new duplicate layer, I altered the position of the second layer to create a shadow on the original images. 

It is from this idea that the narrative of my project came about, and that is of a woman not only looking at herself for the beauty, but for the negatives. The images run in sequence of looking at the positive beauty then the negative, almost like a personal comparison is emerging. I based this on how women look at them selves..never happy with what they themselves have. There is always something about yourself that you see as a negative. Although the narrative is relatively obscure I think it works well with this idea of the robotic, because it brings the question of falsity and even the idea of plastic surgery and trying to falsify yourself for beauty. There is something cold and detatched about the images and I think that works well within the context. The clean lines and crispness of each image helps enhance this as there is such a harshness to the overall look.