Me and My Prose. Self Portrait.
Uploaded: February 10, 2007
a self-portrait I took for the cover of my book.
Jayne Martin February 10, 2007
OMG, I love this!!! How did you do this? Well done. #603304Sharmeka V. Hunter-Wilson February 11, 2007
Hello! thank you very much for your kind compliment. I took the photo with the lights off in the room and in the hall doorway beside me. I used only a light from my light stand, the light left and partially center. I put the camera setting on solarized which gives that red effect. but I wanted it even more red so I adjusted it with my adobe software, the red and contract and also added a grainy effect, not alot. I zoomed in close to me, estimating how close I would need to be to get this shot. I did not want my eyes in the photo. I model in my free-time so I had an idea of what kind of shot I wanted, so I set the camera on multi-burst (three shots) and I posed this way, starting with my head up and hand down and then placing my hand over my chest at the start of my towel on it and dropped my head, but doing this right before the flash so it is natural. I did it three times, keeping the emotion. I looked the three shots and this one jumped out at me right away.I'm glad you like it. It is to be the cover of my complete collection of poems, almost a 200 page book.
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Dr. Harmeet Singh January 25, 2008
Wow.Congrats for the SP and the book. #5390402Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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