SelfPortrait - Multy exposure

© Damir Sencar

SelfPortrait - Multy exposure

Uploaded: January 26, 2006

Description

This is acting, like they are arguing.

Multy exposure, camera on tripod, myself with remote control in my hand and Canon EX 550 flash set to Manual mode, 1/128 power in other hand.
Almost complete dark, some light on left side where sun did set half hour ago (that is why you can see some clouds trough third person).
What I did here:
I did start long exposure, then fired flash with softbox on few times on my body, standing very still. moving only my hand. Then in complete darkness, I did move to central position, make this expression and fire flash around my body again. Same for third position.
It was very hard, in fact, I did start on sunset, and spent over one hour trying to achieve this. Lot's of unwanted movement, overexposed places, uninteresting acting ... I had to correct and try again so many times.
I can understand that some places are overexposed, but after over 1 hour of standing there, I was tired, so try to forgive me for burned parts (my leg).
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