Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Wednesday or GPOYW. I get email updates from Photojojo and a couple of weeks ago they sent out an update about GPOYW. Hey, I enjoy a challenge so I created a little set for myself which included an Apple MacBook Pro as a light source for my face. The subject…what a digital photographer looks like after hours of processing photos. I am sure many of you can relate. 🙂
GPOYW: Self-Portrait of a Digital Photographer
Besides the screen light, I used a Nikon SB-600 Speedlight flash for just a slight pop to give some overhead fill.
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Looking very “Joe McNally-ish” here Scott! Trust me, no one wants to see me after hours in front of the PC…NO ONE! 🙂
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Do you mean I look like Joe or did a Joe by using a small flash? 🙂 Yeah, it is a time not to bug the photographer behind that screen.
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Both, actually. Altho, Joe probably would have added some sort of green or blue gel onto the flash to give an eerie glow. He also would have had some wild lighting drawing (on a napkin) of how he mapped the whole thing out! 🙂 I both love and hate that about him!
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Joe’s book on flash is one I will be reading this year. Want to try my hand at using those gels, too. I don’t do napkin art..well, any kind of drawing art for that matter.
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Relate? Absolutely! Your photo looks fun, with this light effect, but we all know how risky it can be to get too close (and disturb) any “screen-hidden” person with this look in his/hers eyes…
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I knew you guys could sympathize. It was fun even after 50 tries.
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Oh, handsome photo indeed, Scott. Nice pallor! I can relate. I’ve been spending way too much time in virtual dust, tracking the Civil War vets who have so obsessed me. (Certain friends have pointed out that these people are, after all, dead. Ha.) Ancient photos are beginning to come my way, and I long for high-end software. It’s instructive to study these things. So many are the same tired old line-’em-up-and-shoot-’em-down, or studio portraits in borrowed finery . . . then one pops out. A face so vital its power reaches across a century and a half and grabs you by the shoulders.
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Ah, gee, Gerry, thanks for saying that. If history and reviving stories of people long gone is your passion, pursue and enjoy!
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Very good.
I know the feeling too.lol.
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Aye, it is a very common condition amongst us.
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10 bucks says you’re wearing a Disney sweatshirt in this photo! 🙂
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Ha! Pay up, KD. You too, Micheala. It is a dark blue Montreal Canadiens hoodie. I wanted it to be dark like the background I was using and a hoodie to give that floating head look.
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Damn!
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The portrait is an excellent fit with the subject!
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Thanks, Terry (I think!) 😀
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These types of self-portraits are my favorites. Great job, Scott… and looks like a Disney hoodie to me! 😉
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But besides the carnival mirror one and other side long shots, when are we going to see yours? Oh, you are wrong about the hoodie (see reply to KD above). 😀
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Yeah Daily! lol
*hides*head*
I actually thought awhile ago that it was about time I plastered my face on my blog. But then I took a few shots and changed my mind. The camera picks up every wrinkle, blemish, and dark circle that the mirror somehow doesn’t. What IS that? LOL
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Easy for you to say since we can’t SEE that shirt! 😛
And what do you mean? I posted a “normal” self portrait a few months ago!
KD… make-up and Photoshop 😉
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Um, makeup yes….but I needed more than that! And trust me, I Photoshopped the hell out of it, but then I felt like a fraud. LOL
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Oh wow this is a great capture! What a self-portrait certainly giving a message of computer strain! Oh yes, I can relate. 🙂
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I can totally relate. Had to buy a separate computer so I could have exclusive rights to the one running Lightroom and Photoshop.
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Scott, perfect lighting from the computer, I like the dark background, you also look like a writer. 🙂
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