Self portraits...that time of year

Sebastian, how do you fit all that hair into a hat? Is it a magic hat?

It IS a magic hat! But the magic has nothing to do with hair. I have very little of that. It's a different kind of magic.

Great portrait Mrs. Adina.

okay nothing serious from me, I've turned ugly since turning forty. I'll only hide behind photoshop filters until I turn cute again.

Here's one, for fun ...

okay, I'll be a little more serious. But not much.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1412/...8615f381d2.jpg
Roof of the Royal Connaught Hotel - Downtown Hamilton. I'm sitting up on the steel support for the Howard Johnson sign.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1045/...66a36f94a4.jpg
In the parts room of the old Hamilton Motor Products building.

I leave the 300mm prime nearly permanently afixed to my camera so this is all I could come up with - requiring the use of the 10 second timer.

Now the great distance actually covered isn't adequately portrayed here - due to the telephoto compression, the 1.6x crop factor,...

Or it could have been my Nike Earths, the heavy lunch meeting 30 minutes prior, and/or my big butt.

That made me laugh Loupey!!

It's raining outside and I can't go out and play :( ....

That's nice Aaron. Good job, I got the feeling before I even read the text.

Rather small - but there's a Wombat in there if you look hard enough :)
Yes, this was where I had breakfast yesterday morning - nice isn't it?

I don't take many self photos but this one was taken for me.

James

haven't been around all that much lately, but here's one...

LOL the distortion is well funny! Love it Brent.

heres two of my favorites that i haven't posted here before. They are from last summer though.

Taken in canyonlands NP, and yes that is a 2000 foot cliff.
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/phot...12848_4975.jpg

and heres one from zion narrows

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/phot...12849_5207.jpg


both were taken with my canon s1 is, tripod and 10 second timer.

ive got one heck of a self-portrait in the works...but for right now, i liked this one.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1372/crw2900nv4.jpg

Love the perspective on this one. Can't wait to see what you have in the works.

You may remember seeing the first picture from my blog, of me doing a self portrait while I was hanging my photographs for the recent group exhibit I was a part of.
http://gallery.photographyreview.com...0/DSCN2520.jpg

I got my film from that roll back the other day so here is the resulting self portrait.

Brian

some from me....

Your eyes are very pretty when they're open :wink:

Here's one from this week on Thanksgiving vacation. Taken from the top of a hill overlooking Mission San Xavier in southern Arizona.

As a general rule, I don't do self portraits. But, occasionally I have to finish a roll of film and something like this happens.

The tilt of the camera makes it art. :D

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Here's one from this week on Thanksgiving vacation. Taken from the top of a hill overlooking Mission San Xavier in southern Arizona.

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Your eyes are very pretty when they are open.

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Originally Posted by photophorous

As a general rule, I don't do self portraits. But, occasionally I have to finish a roll of film and something like this happens.

The tilt of the camera makes it art. :D

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Very artsy for sure!
Great camera!
:thumbsup:
Brian

My buddy Brad and myself on the flight home.

You think your kung fu is good? Window light self-portrait! Take that!

Taken with the new Canon PowerShot SD950 IS. I haven't had a chance to compare yet. But I am suspicious that this camera is a little noisier than the SD850 IS. It's sort of to be expected as they crammed 12 million pixels onto the same area as the previous camera's 8-megapixel sensor.

Damn nice shot, I think you nailed it.

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Originally Posted by MB1

So I say to myself, "I wonder if this thing is turned on?"

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That first one is ruler, MB1! I like the bumper reflection, too.

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Damn nice shot, I think you nailed it.

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Well, I took five. So I ought to have nailed it :D

That's the cool thing about digital, no one has to know about the other shots, they get deleted.

Hey, I'll be a late arrival to the thread since the other SLC folks are here.

This one was shortly after I'd read about the zone system in Ansel's books. And also the discovery of the usefulness of spot metering.

Aw man... I've been meaning to get in on this, but I'm so camera shy I've been afraid to do it..

So here's a couple, first a picture of my niece and myself. Can't really see much of me, but at least I'm working up the nerve..
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/...5e06083c2f.jpg

And here, I finally broke down and did it while playing around with my mothers digicam. Sorry about the face, but trust me I wouldn't have looked any better otherwise :p
<img src="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m149/Canuck935/Misc/PB190049.jpg" width=500></img>

Took these at my 44th bd a few weeks ago... The second is my imitation of "The Scream" painting. :D

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You think your kung fu is good? Window light self-portrait! Take that!

Taken with the new Canon PowerShot SD950 IS. I haven't had a chance to compare yet. But I am suspicious that this camera is a little noisier than the SD850 IS. It's sort of to be expected as they crammed 12 million pixels onto the same area as the previous camera's 8-megapixel sensor.

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I have that shirt, in fact, I'm wearing it right now.

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Hey, I'll be a late arrival to the thread since the other SLC folks are here.

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It's about time!
Good one!
Brian

WCpilot-
That's a nice composition and it is a really nice exposure. Great, smooth range and a nice, creamy tonal quality.

You're going to Westminster right? I'm in CA for the rest of the week. But maybe next week you, me, and Brian can get together for some dinner or something? I think we've put it off long enough.

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...The second is my imitation of "The Scream" painting. :D

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ROTFL... Nice shot :D

Here's one from Tombstone last week. If I had wanted to, I could have played with the angle and getting more of my shadow but, eh.

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Originally Posted by adina

Your eyes are very pretty when they are open.

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Why don't you two just get a room. A chat room, anyway. :p :rolleyes: :D

He started it.

Actually, she was repeating something I had said earlier because she couldn't come up with anything original on her own :p