Self-Portrait

hi,

I just wondered what people think about my best photographs (so far)

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different... nothing else. i presume that the grain and shake was all intentional. I still think that monochrome is best for people.

I wanted to achieve an effect of photographs
taken at the begining of 20th century,

that's why I've dressed weird, taken a camera from my collection
which looked oldest, fired the flash from the front, used ISO's
3200/6400 and long exposures,

on the last one i also wanted to achieve an effect
(motion blur) by pre-focusing, why (?)
back then most popular cameras (I think) were PINHOLE CAMERAS
with v. little apretures;
the exposures often taken a looong time,

I gave up that idea later in the "session"

!hello, i think you partial succeed.. for me the precense of the camera take away from the pictures a bitt, but i digg the grain though and the light looks good, the last shot are great btw, got that old feeling.

the last has real character
great stuff

I like the last one - it does have a "turn of the century" feel which I think the first three don't quite manage to capture. That's almost certainly down to the blurring which, as you say, is quite typical of using a tiny aperture. Good work!

thanks for your comments

The last one for me, too. Partly because of the effect you've achieved with blur/exposure, but also because your expression is less self-conscious than the previous ones. Really interesting idea!

I think the last ones pretty good too, but I'd have cloned out that irritating bit of white paint on the wall, theres also a bit of your shirt? showing in the bottom left. Nitpicking I know but stuff like this really catches my eye once I know its there.

As for the rest;

1) you look asleep
2) you look like a startled monkey
3) you look like your subject had just taken her top off

I liked #1
also#4
you know....if you have one of the old black plastic body caps for your camera...you could drill a hole in it, tape a peice of tinfoil over the hole, and peirce the tinfoil with a pin to make your dslr take real pinhole images!

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I'll do something about that paint...

I can't see any shirt hanging out but if there is sorry

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I wanted to show some kind of emotions
that a v. posh "high class" person would show

that's an interesting idea...

but to be honest I can't imagine standing still for more
than 30 seconds and I think it'd take a lot longer...

The bit I thought was your shirt is just a white mark of some sort, bottom left. Like I said, mentioning it was nitpicking but personally I would have got rid of it, even old photographs would have been "Spotted" to remove blemishes like this.

Dons idea is an excelent one, I did it many years ago with an Olympus OM30 using print film, I even relied on the cameras meter for the exposure, I keep saying I'll do it with one of my digital bodies but never get around to it
Dont worry about standing around for 30 seconds, just hike the cameras ISO up as far as it will go, you should get fairly short exposures in decent light.

hmm,
when I was taking the pics above the apreture I was
using was f/4, ISO was 3200 and sometimes 6400, shutter speeds were
something near 4 sec.

but I'll try it...

Where were you, in a cave?

I do really like these, even the ones with the 'faces', but the last one's my favourite too. Well done for creating something a bit different.

Dan