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<p>[QUOTE="elarnia, post: 9436866, member: 159"]Just playing around - I am in no way qualified to do this - but I tried the following:</p><p>1. I took a photo of Hickok in his later years - and tilted it to have the face straight.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]437632[/ATTACH]</p><p>2. I marked the vertical placement of the chin, crease of the mouth, tip of nose, bottom of ears, and eyes through the irises.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]437633[/ATTACH]3. I took the picture from the OP and adjusted the tilt of the head.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]437634[/ATTACH]</p><p>and 4. superimposed the guideline template created in (2) I sized his head to match the eye line and the chin line. You can see that when I do that the mouth and ears are slightly off and the nose is way off. His shoulders also appear to be a bit lower and wider than Hickok's. It also looks like Hickok may have had some facial scars that the other doesn't. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]437635[/ATTACH] </p><p>I know that the results I got could change if one of the subjects was tilting his head forward, if I were working with larger high res photos, and if I actually knew what I was doing beyond what I've learned from TV. So for what it's worth... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="elarnia, post: 9436866, member: 159"]Just playing around - I am in no way qualified to do this - but I tried the following: 1. I took a photo of Hickok in his later years - and tilted it to have the face straight. [ATTACH=full]437632[/ATTACH] 2. I marked the vertical placement of the chin, crease of the mouth, tip of nose, bottom of ears, and eyes through the irises. [ATTACH=full]437633[/ATTACH]3. I took the picture from the OP and adjusted the tilt of the head. [ATTACH=full]437634[/ATTACH] and 4. superimposed the guideline template created in (2) I sized his head to match the eye line and the chin line. You can see that when I do that the mouth and ears are slightly off and the nose is way off. His shoulders also appear to be a bit lower and wider than Hickok's. It also looks like Hickok may have had some facial scars that the other doesn't. [ATTACH=full]437635[/ATTACH] I know that the results I got could change if one of the subjects was tilting his head forward, if I were working with larger high res photos, and if I actually knew what I was doing beyond what I've learned from TV. So for what it's worth... :pompous:[/QUOTE]
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