This picture is awesome. Very good mood and feeling.
But the portrait must be from the camera itself. The focus and DOF here sugests the girl as subject not the camera.
I like this alot, however this is a camera self portrait challenge and thus i think the camera should be the part in focus rather than the person which i geuss is you.
i originally gave this an 8, but in retrospect, think it deserves upping to a 9. i initially knocked it down because i wasn't particularly keen on the purple hue, but you know, i'm warming to it. i think the colours suit the melancholy feel of the shot, and the general ambience going on. i love the composition too; the out of focusness of the camera works a treat in that to me it suggests a sort of binding companionship between the photographer and the camera. actually, it's sort of composed in a sixties french moody artfilm drama type thing (for real style overdrive, i just wish you had an old Leica instead of a modern silver canon!). the lighting is also incredible; the light to dark across the shot engrossingly effective. it's all so stylish, so captivatingly lovely. screw the 9: 10.
that's really nice...I like the duotone...perhaps it's more a person portrait than a camera one, but I won't mark it down as it's a really pleasing shot 7