[Self-Portrait #9]

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

In five years, I will be....

Original Image
*Not Edited

• 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]

*Original,
Not Edited

• 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]

original Photo
*unedited

[artist statement coming soon]

[S-P #4]

There is no victory, there are only battles.
And in the end, the best you can hope for
is to find a place to make your stand.
And if you're very lucky, you find
someone willing to stand with you

 

 

• Camera: Nikon D5100
• Lens: 18-55mm
• F-stop: f/5.6
• Exposure: 1/60sec
• ISO speed: ISO 1250
• shot in RAW

Runner up image
*Not edited

This week for our self portrait, we had to theme it around points that our classmates learned about us. Things about me that my classmates learned that I chose to bring across in this photo were that I have small handwriting, dream of being left handed, and that I love the television show Castle.

I got across my small handwriting by showing my small handwriting, my dream of being left handed by putting the pen in my left hand, and my love for Castle by using a quote from Castle. I also used a point that was not mentioned; the fact that my favor color is blue (which can be found in the fact that I used blue ink.)

[S-P #3]

• Camera: Nikon D5100
• Lens: 18-55mm
• F-stop: f/4
• Exposure: 1/30sec
• ISO speed: ISO2800
• shot in RAW 

Original final image
before editing

For this shot, I originally had planned to attempt the face symmetry theory (example). But had a difficult time in editing to make it look right or believable. So I backed away from Photoshop for a moment, and thought. I came back with the idea to give my image a mirror effect by reversing the image on one layer, and having them both conjoin somewhere in the middle. Also, I enhanced the lighting in photoshop, since it was dark to begin with.
I liked the outcome, and it keeps the possible theme of not exposing my entire face in one image.