I decided to try and replicate some pictures of the Orang-Utan's using a human model. I looked through my images to find the portraits with the most human characteristics and posed my model in the same positions. You can see the similarities between the Orang-Utans eyes and emotions with the models eyes. I used Wanda Wulz as the inspiration, and decided to merge the 2 images together. After resizing and rotating the images, I edited the opacity of the top image and created a merged photo of the Orang-Utan and models faces.

Wanda Wulz is an experimental photographer who's most famous piece of work is a self portrait merged with a cats face.
That is the image which imspired me to try merging my orang-utan portraits with some portraits of my model.
It wasn't easy to merge my images as it was hard to get my model to pose in exactly the same postition as the orangutan. Wulz's image is well merged to make it look like a human with a cat face and the cat details are really clear. Whereas my image is cleary a merged one, although I do like the end result. 

This image was harder to replicate as a human model has different size body parts to the orangutan. I had a few attempts, but this was the one that was the closest representation. I used photoshop to edit the contrast and brightness, and the dodge tool to replicate the sunlight in the top left of the image. I edited the photo to make my models skin tone closer to that of the orangutans. When I tried to merge the images together it didn't work as well as the sizing didn't fit. The previous images of the close up face worked better because I was able to resize and rotate them to fit perfectly with eachother.