Self-Portrait: the practice, exhibition, vulnerability, and exploration

[DanielScott]

I put together this lighting setup to photograph a friend earlier this week, then after the session I handed my camera over to the friend I was photographing and had them take this photo of me with my favorite skateboard.

 

[SonomaTim]

I put together this lighting setup to photograph a friend earlier this week, then after the session I handed my camera over to the friend I was photographing and had them take this photo of me with my favorite skateboard. Since I conceived this portrait from the lighting, to the pose, to composition, and also all editing, it is a self portrait. According to the guidelines on this thread it is a self portrait. Whatever, here's the photo:

Great image! By the way...you could have just said you used an analog remote control rather than a digital remote. ;-)

 

[ThreeHounds]

Great image! By the way...you could have just said you used an analog remote control rather than a digital remote. ;-)

Maybe organic remote? Either way... nice shot.

 

[Ltdave]

do selfies with a gripped DSLR and speedlite count?

i was at a post season party for the local semi-pro hockey team and as their photographer, i was trying to get the fans to interact with the players who were milling around chatting. i asked this one gal (who her and her friend were pretty much wall-flowers at every game and at the party) if she wanted a picture with any of the guys and i would grab them for her. she said "i want a picture with the hottest one". im a guy, i dont know which OTHER guy is the hottest one so i said "well IM the hottest photographer (also the ONLY photographer) so lets get a picture together!"

it was pretty difficult holding that camera up one handed, backward, with just single-point focusing set! i pulled it off though. i think

 

[DanielScott]

Maybe organic remote? Either way... nice shot.

Ha, I love this. I'm going to use that.

 

[Ltdave]

not very good technically but it IS in focus!
metered in incident mode on a Gossen Luna-Pro

Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5
Kodak Exta 127mm f4.7 lens
Lomography Lomograflok back with Fuji InstaxWide instant film
1/50 @ f5.6
tripped by a shutter release cable

ive been having trouble getting good meter readings. or having trouble reading/interpreting the readings. i shot 4-5 pictures of some folks early in the week and over exposed them by at LEAST 2 stops. shot a couple of my wife and again over by +2 (maybe +3).

i know i have very low light, and wanted to be as close as possible or -1/3 stop since ive been blasting them as of late. here i have my Crown Graphic 2x3
which i very nearly cropped out of the image

 

[Lucky7]

 

[DanielScott]

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

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Handsome!

 

[joayne]

Outstanding lighting and focus on the eyes

 

[Markuswelder]

You can tell just how seriously I take this self portrait thing lol. Out in my favorite places.

240428j-P1002421 by Markus Welder, on Flickr

240511-P1002739 by Markus Welder, on Flickr

 

[Markuswelder]

Favorite places again

selfie 10 by speedync30, on Flickr

P1012145230319 by speedync30, on Flickr

 

[DanielScott]

Got a new skateboard this week (though it's a re-issue of a Powell Peralta from the 80's). I took advantage of a lighting setup I put together today for a client shoot and took a few "test" shots of myself.

 

[West Coast Birder]

Question....What if someone extracted a frame from a video they made of themself with the camera on a tripod. I'm inclined to think that might be a stretch.

I don't see a problem. It is a photo of you by you. Whether it is a single frame, or one from a bracketed series, or a frame from a video shouldn't make any difference in my opinion.

 

[wyntastr]

 

[DanielScott]

My new favorite shirt.

 

[phughes]

 

[S.R.M.]

I'm not normally one to do self-portraits, but here is one from a couple of nights ago when I was surrounded by flashing, bioluminescent fireflies. It involved sitting perfectly still for 6 seconds (during which the fireflies left yellow trails all around me), which is a bit of a challenge! But I'm happy with the result

Self Portrait with Fireflies #2 by Stephen Mudge, on Flickr

 

[phughes]

I'm not normally one to do self-portraits, but here is one from a couple of nights ago when I was surrounded by flashing, bioluminescent fireflies. It involved sitting perfectly still for 6 seconds (during which the fireflies left yellow trails all around me), which is a bit of a challenge! But I'm happy with the result

Self Portrait with Fireflies #2 by Stephen Mudge, on Flickr

That's great.

 

[joayne]

I'm not normally one to do self-portraits, but here is one from a couple of nights ago when I was surrounded by flashing, bioluminescent fireflies. It involved sitting perfectly still for 6 seconds (during which the fireflies left yellow trails all around me), which is a bit of a challenge! But I'm happy with the result

Self Portrait with Fireflies #2 by Stephen Mudge, on Flickr

Great Concept > to Great Image.
Really creative.. Congratulations!