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binga63 · Feb 27, 2013

Trying to get a half decent self portrait
It is a hard task

Self by Binga63, on Flickr

MiFleur · Feb 27, 2013

Hello You, I like your self portrait,
you chose hard lighting condition as the bright light and the shadows make a strong contrast, but I still like it.
like the halo on your legs...

LaFoto · Feb 27, 2013

I like the outcome of your self-portrait-experiment, too, as you obviously chose not to just get a headshot, you chose a location, a pose, and - so I would guess - also this kind of light. Well done, I say. The conversion to b&w also works.

Nice "meeting you", by the way.
For some time now I had wondered what you might look like.

ceeboy14 · Feb 27, 2013

He doesn't at all look like a Binga. I've seen Bingas in the wild alleyways of the city; they're much taller, lithe, and always on the move prowling about for the wild doughnut or savory French toasts which lurk among wayward pedestrians. Nope, don't know who he is inpersonating, but a Binga...no way!

I like the gritty look, especially on the stair tread and riser edges. I would like to see you lighten up the right side of your face ever so slightly as well as the area between your right elbow and right ribcage. Other that, oh false Binga, good shot of someone.

binga63 · Feb 27, 2013

ceeboy14 said:
He doesn't at all look like a Binga. I've seen Bingas in the wild alleyways of the city; they're much taller, lithe, and always on the move prowling about for the wild doughnut or savory French toasts which lurk among wayward pedestrians. Nope, don't know who he is inpersonating, but a Binga...no way!

I like the gritty look, especially on the stair tread and riser edges. I would like to see you lighten up the right side of your face ever so slightly as well as the area between your right elbow and right ribcage. Other that, oh false Binga, good shot of someone.

Oh but yes I am a 'binga' but the days of donuts and french toast wear heavily upon this once lithe body, I can barely catch a cold.....

ceeboy14 · Feb 27, 2013

I'm right behind ya. Can't even remember the last donut I've had and the French toast is with egg beaters and damn near carb free bread...makes me wonder why I bother. It is a nice shot and looking back in my Binga identification guide, I did find one which looks scarily similar to this one. :lol:

So, indeed, you may actually be what you are laying claim toward.

amolitor · Feb 27, 2013

Very nice. I like the composition a lot. Lots of good stuff to look at, an interesting location, a good position in the frame albeit a non-traditional (looking to the right out of the frame, rather than "across" the frame or however the portrait purists describe it).

What I am not getting here is a couple of things:

- this feels like an "environmental portrait" in terms of its look and framing, but I am not feeling that it's your environment, it feels like you just picked this place to sit down.
- your position in the frame, right of center, turned to look to the right and out of frame is a visual statement with some power, but I am not feeling any why to it. It feels like your energy is directed out of the frame, and away.

These might actually be the same thing. You don't "fit" in the frame for me. Visually, all is fine, it works great. Emotionally or psychologically or something, you and the frame are not quite working together, somehow. For me.

That's probably all a bunch of ********, but maybe you can find something you can use in there?

binga63 · Feb 27, 2013

amolitor said:
Very nice. I like the composition a lot. Lots of good stuff to look at, an interesting location, a good position in the frame albeit a non-traditional (looking to the right out of the frame, rather than "across" the frame or however the portrait purists describe it).

What I am not getting here is a couple of things:

- this feels like an "environmental portrait" in terms of its look and framing, but I am not feeling that it's your environment, it feels like you just picked this place to sit down.
- your position in the frame, right of center, turned to look to the right and out of frame is a visual statement with some power, but I am not feeling any why to it. It feels like your energy is directed out of the frame, and away.

These might actually be the same thing. You don't "fit" in the frame for me. Visually, all is fine, it works great. Emotionally or psychologically or something, you and the frame are not quite working together, somehow. For me.

That's probably all a bunch of ********, but maybe you can find something you can use in there?

Yes I understand where you are coming from...I am struggling with the whole self-portrait concept
I don't do close up shots of my face well.... (Parkinson's gives a great stare and not much else, though I do rage well

)
So this is a process which I hope will help me grow as a photographer
I'll keep trying and submitting
even then I doubt that I will be satified

tirediron · Feb 27, 2013

binga63 said:
...I'll keep trying and submitting. Even then I doubt that I will be satified

That's as it should be. If you become "satisfied" you will stop being creative. Keep searching, keep experimenting, keep posting!

imagemaker46 · Feb 27, 2013

I like that you used an area instead of just a head shot, or typical portrait. Putting yourself into a scene works well, especially in this black and white. Did you shoot any of yourself looking a little more straight ahead?

ratssass · Feb 27, 2013

imagemaker46 said:
I like that you used an area instead of just a head shot, or typical portrait. Putting yourself into a scene works well, especially in this black and white. Did you shoot any of yourself looking a little more straight ahead?

^^^^^this

binga63 · Feb 28, 2013

this is the other i took and kept...I took alot but ha....only one that came close to be liked
this is more deer in the headlights look, than anything else

Deer in the headlights by Binga63, on Flickr