AgentDrex
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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- Bemidji, Minnesota, USA
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In-between jobs and not spending money on strobes when I did have a job has led me to using two clamp lights and a reflector for self-portraits. I figure light of any sort will help me learn light angles regardless. I do have an interview soon, so if that goes well, I will save up for some strobes at that point (for seriouslyness).
My new living situation does not allow for much in the way of room to take self-portraits except in the unheated basement. My time spent down there is ten minutes max before I give up and go back upstairs to warm up (I'm a wuss for a Minnesotan I guess).
First photo presented here is one where I decided to fore-go the typical portrait orientation and instead opted for a lot of negative space in landscape with my face severely to the right (notice the fogging on my goggles as a measure of the basement temperature). Lighting set-up: 150-watt clamp light with clear incandescent bulb frame left (three feet or less away from me) and white-side of 5-in-1 reflector frame right (less than a foot away):
#1 - "The Biker Inside"
This next photo is edited for my own humor. I received a wireless shutter release as a belated Christmas present (what an awesome gift!!) and decided to pose with it. After viewing the photo, I opted to convert the photo to gray-scale and add faux radio waves emanating from the antenna. Lighting set-up: same 150-watt clamp light as the previous photo but this time about twelve feet away frame right and a 60-watt clamp light frame top-left about two feet or so away. I can sure tell from the shadows that the smaller a light source (as in area) the harder the shadow. Not that I didn't already know that but it's nice to see it in action (plus I decided to have fun with the pose to make the shadow on the wall a little pervy):
#2 - Posing with Wireless Shutter Release
For this pose, is my head angled in a feminine manner? It seems like that to me and to be honest, I'm not sure why. Would anyone be willing to give me some posing advice? I tried to follow the "rule" if it bends, bend it. Unfortunately I forgot to do something with my legs.
I have a lot of practice ahead of me. I promise to get much better. Sorry for burning eyes with these junky photos. Like I said, however, they are just test shots.
As an added note, having that wireless shutter release makes it funner now to take self-portraits. I'm not racing the timer and trying to hurry into a pose. I now have the ability to pre-focus and pose as desired with no running-back and forth. Loving this. My buddy was able to get it for eight dollars off of amazon (apparently he had an unused gift certificate), normally this one runs around twenty dollars or so (so still a cheapy but works just fine so far).
Once it warms up, I'll bust out my muslin and work on backdrops and what-not. For right now, I'd like to worry about posing and lighting of the subject.
My new living situation does not allow for much in the way of room to take self-portraits except in the unheated basement. My time spent down there is ten minutes max before I give up and go back upstairs to warm up (I'm a wuss for a Minnesotan I guess).
First photo presented here is one where I decided to fore-go the typical portrait orientation and instead opted for a lot of negative space in landscape with my face severely to the right (notice the fogging on my goggles as a measure of the basement temperature). Lighting set-up: 150-watt clamp light with clear incandescent bulb frame left (three feet or less away from me) and white-side of 5-in-1 reflector frame right (less than a foot away):
#1 - "The Biker Inside"
This next photo is edited for my own humor. I received a wireless shutter release as a belated Christmas present (what an awesome gift!!) and decided to pose with it. After viewing the photo, I opted to convert the photo to gray-scale and add faux radio waves emanating from the antenna. Lighting set-up: same 150-watt clamp light as the previous photo but this time about twelve feet away frame right and a 60-watt clamp light frame top-left about two feet or so away. I can sure tell from the shadows that the smaller a light source (as in area) the harder the shadow. Not that I didn't already know that but it's nice to see it in action (plus I decided to have fun with the pose to make the shadow on the wall a little pervy):
#2 - Posing with Wireless Shutter Release
For this pose, is my head angled in a feminine manner? It seems like that to me and to be honest, I'm not sure why. Would anyone be willing to give me some posing advice? I tried to follow the "rule" if it bends, bend it. Unfortunately I forgot to do something with my legs.
I have a lot of practice ahead of me. I promise to get much better. Sorry for burning eyes with these junky photos. Like I said, however, they are just test shots.
As an added note, having that wireless shutter release makes it funner now to take self-portraits. I'm not racing the timer and trying to hurry into a pose. I now have the ability to pre-focus and pose as desired with no running-back and forth. Loving this. My buddy was able to get it for eight dollars off of amazon (apparently he had an unused gift certificate), normally this one runs around twenty dollars or so (so still a cheapy but works just fine so far).
Once it warms up, I'll bust out my muslin and work on backdrops and what-not. For right now, I'd like to worry about posing and lighting of the subject.
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