Reflections of Boredom

You guessed it...when I'm bored and have nothing else to do I take self portraits (well, who I am kidding...I have too much to do...but I needed a break for a bit!)

So, out came the new Nikon 50mm 1.4 lens for some test shots indoors with no flash at 400 ISO.

No clones needed for this shoot! LOL I just took them in my room with the full length mirror..and the only light in the room was my ceiling fan lights.

I'm not happy with the amount of hot pixles I'm getting at ISO 400 but I'm not about to start worrying about that right now.

Here are my favorite "in the mirror" shots of the night. The first one is my top favorite:






Peter from my forum had an idea to merge the 1st & the 4th photos together to see what it would look like if my reflection was looking at the me that is looking at the camera. I think it puts an interesting twist on it:



Then I did some against a painted wall in my room. As usual the hardest part was focusing the camera on nothing. The 50mm made it even tougher than the 18-200.

Tonight was the greenest I've seen my eyes yet in a self portrait. Usually they're a lot more blue but I guess it was the brown shirt and the wall color that changed them. I'm not sure why I mentioned all these details LOL!

Anyway...these are the colored versions:




Then I converted them to Black & White using Itty Bitty Actions and applied a texture and I LOVE how they came out!




So that's me for tonight. I hope this inspires you to do something...anything at all with your photography when you're bored. When all else fails I say take a self portrait! :)

Vintage Processing

I love how these photos of Amy came out with the Vintage processing.

I toned the opacity down quite a bit to get them to look like this:




I also love how this one turned out:

Previous posts of AMY can be seen HERE.
The entire gallery can be seen HERE.


More to come from this shoot!

Amy Amy Amy!

I'm usually the queen of actions and trying various effects and techniques but for this session I keep gravitating towards COLOR for most of them (and maybe a B&W here or there). I can't help it - the color just pops - and that's what I'm looking for!

All I can says is - didn't I luck out with such a great model?

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I love the color version above but I also like this "dark B&W" by Itty Bitty Actions:







Previous posts of AMY can be seen HERE.

The entire gallery can be seen HERE.

There will be lots and lots more to come...just doing a little at a time from each of my recent shoots...so much to process...so little time! I guess I'll sleep when I'm dead! LOL!

All I Had Time For Tonight

This is all I had time to edit tonight from the "Psychiatric Sunday" series...it's 3:40 am and I need to get to sleep.

My mom is coming over tomorrow and she promised to let me do some portraits of her. I'm looking forward to that.

Here a few of Jen & Brittany:

Oh Snap! and Warm It Up Chris actions applied to this one:

In Dark B&W by Itty Bitty Actions

How could you NOT love this one? This place was perfect for this shoot!

Lights on Action applied and then Dark B&W by Itty Bitty Actions applied:



With Texture over the one above: