Dec132009
Sunday Morning Self Portrait
Filed under Photos by Kim at 10:36 am on Dec 13 2009
This is how I spend my lazy morning – trying to take a self-portrait for the Digital Photography School weekend challenge. Things I wanted to capture: my bedhead Bon Jovi hair, the bathtub for no good reason, and my camera which was the actual point of the challenge. Why yes, I’m just sitting in the bathtub clothed, randomly gazing into a mirror. Sadly I’m ignorant of physics/optics so I couldn’t get me and the camera in focus. When the camera was in focus, the back wall was also in focus, so I probably just needed another 3 feet. Der. This is what I had to do to even be able to get the camera in the mirror – Nikon D90’s live view plus another mirror. Thanks to Genie for the remote – I couldn’t do these wackass things without it. Also, this is why I can’t ever do anything really well, I get bored within a half hour. I probably could have fooled with this setup for another 30 minutes and got the perfect shot but my attention span, she is tiny.
Oh my god, last night we played all through Beatles Rock Band thanks to Jen and Pam and Lars and it was the most fun. I want to do it again but I’d need a tub of Visine for the Rock Band dry eye and a gallon of tea for my throat.
1 jeannie/andthesparrows-sauce_boxon 13 Dec 2009 at 11:20 am
I love the Bon Jovi hair!
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Kim Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Thank you! I am so in love with it right now too!
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2 PMMJon 13 Dec 2009 at 12:39 pm
Lovely pic, there. And yay Bon Jovi hair!
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Kim Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Thank you.
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3 Ian Irelandon 13 Dec 2009 at 8:51 pm
Shorter lens and/or smaller aperture will result in greater depths of field. Getting the mirror closer to the camera will get image of the camera in the mirror closer to the focal plane you’re in… you want the lens-mirror-camera distance to be as close to the lens-Kim distance.
I like the shot a lot, even without the Nikon in focus in the image.
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Kim Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Aha! Yes, Jack was telling me that in that picture the camera was focusing on itself twice the distance to the mirror, and focusing on me at one time the distance. Or what you said.
Thank you! If I had all the skills I would have just photoshopped the one where I got the camera in focus into this one. Heh.
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4 Turtleblueson 14 Dec 2009 at 7:35 am
This is a really nice self portrait.
You holding the mirror reminds me of this painting that I was looking at over the weekend (except she’s holding a magnifying glass):
http://www.portraitcompetition.si.edu/exhibition2009/EntryDetails.aspx?RID=431335620
It’s awesome, but I find the narrative below kind of irritating.
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Kim Reply:
December 14th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Ha! I love that painting, but it would definitely be better without the explanation.
Thank you!
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5 Rickon 14 Dec 2009 at 12:39 pm
You should do a “Bon Jovi Bed Head 365” project! That hair is teh awesome!
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6 Cecilyon 14 Dec 2009 at 1:39 pm
That’s a great shot! We should plan an afternoon to go take pictures.
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Kim Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Yep – the problem with planning right now, of course, is that the danged sun goes down at 5pm! I don’t leave work until 5:30! So it’d have to be a weekend.
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Cecily Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Or we can get some flashlights and glow sticks and do a cool night shoot!
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7 Meganon 14 Dec 2009 at 9:05 pm
Great picture. I want to be your model one day.
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Kim Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Anytime. I really do want to try to do some portrait work and see how it goes. Email me!!
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8 Mariaon 14 Dec 2009 at 9:54 pm
I think the unfocused-ness of the camera lends it a bit of a goofy-creepy vibe. It’s all like “I’m stalking yoouuuuuu” and your expression looks sort of like “*sigh* See, it follows me around all the time like this and I am SO TIRED of it you guys.”
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Kim Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 10:13 am
HAHAHAHA this is awesome.
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