Yep, a self-portrait. Yep, I hated being called "four-eyes" in school.
I don't own an off-camera flash, so I use my point-and-shoots in timer mode. I put a piece of white tissue paper over the flash (like you'd get in a gift bag) to diffuse the light - it made quite a difference! The point and shoot was sitting on a dresser about 3 feet from me. I shot in total darkness with the D200 on bulb mode.
I'm sitting in front of a $10 piece of black fabric.
Each take went like this:
- press the shutter button to start the timer
- sit down
- lower my glasses and look at the D200
- open the D200 shutter
- flash
- close the D200 shutter
- review
Took maybe 10 - this had the best expression.
I shot this at 11:35 pm, so it's a good thing it was only basic editing! Still managed to get in some sharpening, shadow/higlight to tone down my bright forehead, some cropping, and a gradient map to convert to B&W.
Post-challenge: hooray! All week the score toyed with 6.0, so I'm happy the scrubber put me over the top.
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Ooooh not a typical Jeffrey expression, LOL. Thank goodness. Where's the smile in the eyes...oh that's right you're FIERCE.
Very nice job Jeffrey. Congrats on going over the 6 mark. You got a 7 from me. And I hate to say it ... without the smile in the eyes I didn't realize that was you.
Congrats again.
I thought this was yours, considering it is a self portrait that wouldn't be too hard for me to figure out, but I actually gave this one a 7 during voting, congrats on it getting bumped up above a 6.
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