Observer and observed - Doppelgänger

The WoW for this week was "Doppelgänger" which means an apparition or double of a living person. Given this word, we tried to re-create a photograph taken by famous photographers that we had studied about. This photo was found on the Wilkosz & Way Blog, to the right of my photographer "Henri Cartier-Bresson" Unfortunately, I didn't realize that this photo was conjoined to the one by my photographer while having been taken by another photographer by the name of "Susan Derges". To re-create this picture, I had my mom who has a similar face to the woman in the picture to the left lie down under a table. Then I took a piece of plastic out from a binder to lay the water droplets on, since the glass which she lay under didn't work as well as I had hoped, the drops weren't as visible. Next, I made sure that my shadow fell over her nose, which you can see by how the area right under her cheek bones is a bit lighter than her mouth and tip-mid nose. I used a fast shutter speed, since it was hard to take the picture from the angle that I took it from, eventually after all of the static holding of the camera my hands started to shake. I only used natural light which came in from the window behind me to cast my shadow on top of her and I focused the camera on the droplets of water to make sure that they had clear definition. Next came the task of cropping out the photo to the left from the photo it was conjoined with, then joining that one with the one that I took in photoshop. I also changed the one that I took to black and white and increased the brightness a bit, since the photo to the left is extremely bright.

Done