W/NW Self Portrait

[JoeV]

Yesterday I sat for a portrait with Ethan of Cameradactyl. This is a 20x24 inch print on RA4 paper, exposed in a massive 20x24 inch camera and processed using the RA4 reversal process (B/W dev, stop, rinse in white light, RA4 dev, blix) using Ethan’s 20x24 inch self-developing back. Lighting was via some massive strobes, this process requires colored filters over the camera lens to simulate the orange color cast of C41 negatives, this print was a bit too blue, we did a subsequent print with warmer filters on the lens.

Here’s a video of the process:

 

[Glenn2]

Wow, that's taking large format to another level.

Here's an old assisted selfie from days sailing in the Gulf Islands near Vancouver Island. Mid 1980s M4, 21mm SA.

 

[Harry the K]

I think I've posted this before but I couldn't find it in this thread. I tried cleaning it up a bit since it was a total crap scan from long ago.


From a little over 50 years ago with the "rat pack". That's me on the far left with a Gossen Super Pilot meter around my neck. Camera on a tripod, a Nikon F, using self timer. I haven't changed at all over the years. Except for the hair. And the waistline. And a few parts are now missing or have been replaced. 🙄


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Spontaneously I think of The Marshall Tucker Band. What a great image & memory!!!

 

[Richard G]

 

[Tuna]

 

[Brambling]

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A beautiful and lovely girl took a picture of herself, and I really like the composition.

 

[Arnold Layne]

 

[dourbalistar]

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Self portrait and a shelf portrait. 😂

 

[Dogman]

I found these rather conventional self portraits a couple of days ago while looking for something else in Lightroom. I immediately lost them again and finally relocated them today. The photo is from 2019. I'm much better looking today.🙄😳





I was fooling around with an X-Pro2 and a 35/2 Fujinon. Sadly I had nothing better to take pictures of that particular day.








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[Richard G]

This was a shot to explore f1.4 aperture again with the 1970s Summilux M 35. I was a willing subject. It is nearly always on the Monochrom and nearly never used wide open. I am pretty good at guessing 2 meters it seems. I have never quite come to terms with the major glow of this lens, and maybe my copy more glowy than some. But here it masks my left neck scar quite well, and while the lens makes me look a bit milky, friends, not all good liars, tell me I look well. I used the subject selection in the new LR mask function. I am not good enough in this new LR Classic to do some dodging and burning. Slowly learning.

The pose was partly to defeat the harsh overhead lighting, but since my hypermetrope lenses were glass and heavy as a kid I always had my nose in the air, which caused some character-building interactions at school for a time. In fights opponents were surprised that a kid with glasses is not much handicapped after all. And I have been obliged to maintain good posture ever since.

The lighting is harsher than usual in this room as the blinds are away for cleaning and the windows are black with the night, nothing reflected to the clever architect-designed bulkheads, from the white blinds, which usually provide a nice fill light, but especially with food on the table in this room in daylight. It took me years to realise why food looked so good on our table.

 

[ellisson]

Amy and I viewing the solar eclipse in April 2024. Only about 90% coverage of the sun at our location, but still dramatic.

 

[Jonathan R]

With son, some years ago.

 

[p.giannakis]

 

[Tuna]

 

[girdwoodINC]

 

[raphaellehnen]

 

[AlexMogens]

Here's a pinhole camera self-portrait that I took on World Pinhole Day this past Sunday. This was a 30mm pinhole camera that we'd made the day prior from cardboard that takes 120 film. Kentmere 400, 2 second exposure

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

 

[sratner]

 

[mrtoml]

I have been relearning Photoshop after years of not touching it. Trying to get to grips with layers and masking. Here is an example messing around with multiple masks and textures. Panasonic S5 II. Panasonic 50/1.8.