Good-Bye

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Our theme for this week was "goodbye". I had a handful of ideas in mind for our final self portrait, but so many ideas so little props. I didn't want to go with the obvious idea of walking away or walking out the door, but in the end I'm kind of glad I did since it turned out to be my favorite self-portrait I've taken. I tried this picture from a few angles; I originally wanted full body but I really didn't have much room to achieve my vision. I had tried to even put the tripod on my bed but I was way to nervous about it falling. I broke out my mini tripod and set it on the floor and played with perspective, and this is what I achieved. With a little editing it came out to be a personal favorite of mine

[Self-Portrait #10]

[Self-Portrait #9]

In 5 years I will be... [Self-Portrait #8]

In five years, I will be....

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• Camera: Nikon D5100
• Lens: 18-55mm
• F-stop: f/3.5
• Exposure: 1 sec
• ISO speed: ISO3200
• shot in RAW

Who knows where I'll be in five years. nothing is guaranteed, nothing is promised. Will I even still be alive, or will I be dead? Will I have a career, or will I be that homeless person on the street asking for money? Married with or without kids, or still living the "single life"? All I can say for sure is that I will be 25 years old this time in five years, the rest is a mystery. Which is what I tried to convey in this image.

I attempted going for a silhouette, something I have never tried before in my photography career. Save to say, first time didn't work out very well. I realized later I should have had my room A LOT darker (and cleaner) for the shot to work. I tried many different shots, some with my back to the camera, some with my face to the camera. Ultimately, this was the shot I chose. I brought it into photoshop and did major editing to do the best I could to manipulate the shot to what I had in mind. Not my favorite self portrait, but not my least favorite either.

Childhood Memories [Self Portrait #7]

I had a hard time with this week. I had a better idea in mind, and was very excited for it, up until I realized the props I needed were not here, rather at my Grandmother's house in the Bronx. So I chose not so much one memory, but a place that holds a lot of memories for me, Santa Maria School. I used a year book from my very first year there, 1997-1998. Multiple memories are stored in that school, some great ones that make me smile and others that don't make me feel all that great. But overall, it's where I did more half of my growing up; spent 10 of my 20 years of life there.

[S-P 6]

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• Camera: Nikon D5100
• Lens: 18-55mm
• F-stop: f/5.6
• Exposure: 1/60sec
• ISO speed: ISO2800
• shot in RAW 

For this week's self portrait, we didn't have any guidelines, free range. I took this week to be very simple; I decided to go for a mirror picture. I know my camera has editing options build in, so I curiously took it for a test run and put it to use. Like I said, went very simple this week and I think it paid off! I missed playing with my picture in Photoshop, but still very proud of the results.

[S-P 5]

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[artist statement coming soon]