'08 Subject Assignment - SELF PORTRAIT - Due Aug 1st

AdrianBetti · Jul 23, 2008

Ha, Interesting john. Whats that lens go down to?

johngpt · Jul 23, 2008

AdrianBetti said:
Ha, Interesting john. Whats that lens go down to?

LOL, it's Canon's EF-S 60mm macro USM. I think sometimes it'll resolve mitochondria.

Here's a different angle on the same body part as that 'disturbing' one a couple posts back. That one was of the ear pinna, or outer rim of ear.

Here's the different angle.

Nothing like an old white guy's body for gross images.

johngpt · Jul 23, 2008

And here's the follow up to that shot I submitted for the June shadow + light challenge.

It didn't heal as well as anticipated, and now four weeks later, it's finally closed.

If it had been on my cheek, I could have claimed it was my old dueling scar!

This had also been shot with the EF-S 60 lens. Hand held, it doesn't have image stabilisation. No sharpening post processing, just color correction.

LaFoto · Jul 23, 2008

Tried the "good (?) old" stretch-your-arm-as-far-out-as-you-can method to take a self with the 50mm lens on, at f2, with the outside light as my light, getting to me through the back door, no control over the AF and dang! Got my mouth in focus but not my eyes. Hmpf. Ah well, but I did something for the assignment...

Tried the eyes ONLY afterwards just so there'd also be at least one pic of my eyes in focus.

johngpt · Jul 23, 2008

LaFoto said:
Tried the "good (?) old" stretch-your-arm-as-far-out-as-you-can method to take a self with the 50mm lens on, at f2, with the outside light as my light, getting to me through the back door, no control over the AF and dang!

LOL, that's exactly how I was shooting mine! Off hand pressing the shutter half way in an attempt to focus. Many attempts to get a couple in focus!

I love the light that comes in our back door slider in the afternoons, when the sun is on the opposite side of the house.

MissMia · Jul 23, 2008

Cool new additions everyone!

I'll shoot mine this weekend when I get my camera back from having the sensor cleaned!

AdrianBetti · Jul 24, 2008

MissMia said:
Cool new additions everyone!

I'll shoot mine this weekend when I get my camera back from having the sensor cleaned!

Sounds like a big production.

MissMia · Jul 24, 2008

AdrianBetti said:
Sounds like a big production.

It's not. I just can't shoot a self port if I don't have a camera :sexywink:

brianne5499 · Jul 24, 2008

Lol, here's the best I could come up with...with my phone...crappy resolution, but easier to handle than my camera (my arms aren't quite long enough:lmao

Eh....:meh: yeah, yeah, yeah, ...exposure, color, blah blah blah...It's a camera phone...not much I could do, lol

johngpt · Jul 24, 2008

brianne5499 said:
Lol, here's the best I could come up with...with my phone...crappy resolution, but easier to handle than my camera (my arms aren't quite long enough:lmao
Eh....:meh: yeah, yeah, yeah, ...exposure, color, blah blah blah...It's a camera phone...not much I could do, lol

Actually, that's quite nice for a camera phone. There's a soft glow effect to your skin which is kinda okay. Did the vignetting happen in camera or with post processing? Whichever, it adds to the image.

brianne5499 · Jul 24, 2008

johngpt said:
Actually, that's quite nice for a camera phone. There's a soft glow effect to your skin which is kinda okay. Did the vignetting happen in camera or with post processing? Whichever, it adds to the image.

Post Processing...I played around with it because it was blue-ish and added that for the heck of it. The soft glow is because it's 1.2 MP. lol it's just blurry well, that and the light from the window. lol

maytay20 · Jul 24, 2008

Well I am still behind the camera, but it is me!

Aye-non Oh-non Imus · Jul 24, 2008

castrol said:
This is an actual smile because my wife walked in and caught me taking pictures of myself.

It was pretty embarrassing. HAHAHAHA.

I found that I get much better results with highlights when removing the lens cap. Just a suggestion.

Big Bully · Jul 24, 2008

Aye-non Oh-non Imus said:
I found that I get much better results with highlights when removing the lens cap. Just a suggestion.

I don't know why but I found this funny. I don't know if it was because I am tired or if it is just because I have an odd sense of humor.

I also I get much better photos when I take the lense cap off. They tend to be much brighter and show objects better. :lol:

johngpt · Jul 24, 2008

Big Bully said:
I don't know why but I found this funny. I don't know if it was because I am tired or if it is just because I have an odd sense of humor.

I also I get much better photos when I take the lense cap off. They tend to be much brighter and show objects better.

I'd forgotten about this old one until you and Aye-non Oh-non Imus mentioned the lens cap.

From 2005, shot for a gag.