Tag Archives: self portrait

Long Exposure Self Portrait

I have a secret love for night photography. I guess it is no longer a secret, since I just told you. Shooting at night offers many possibilities that are not possible during the daylight. You can create interesting compositions with long exposure times and multiple strobe firings per frame or light painting. The background scene...

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Self Portraits in the French Quarter

The historic buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans are photographically inspiring. I would have loved to have had a model to do a photo shoot with. I didn’t, so I decided to undertake the challenge of shooting myself! I used a tripod, a remote shutter trigger, and an off camera speedlight to try...

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The Two Headed Mad Scientist

After yesterday’s philosophic, artistic, and thoughtful post, we return to our regularly scheduled randomness! I was hanging around the house, when I decided to play with the stroboscopic mode on my Nikon SB-900 flash. It’s always a function that I’ve been meaning to play with . . . you know, procrastinating, procrastinating, someday I will...

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Juggling Self Portrait

I finally got motivated to pull out the camera gear today, which is a big departure from my last couple posts taken with my phone! I bought some Alien Bee studio strobes and a Vagabond battery for use on location shoots. I brought the gear out in the backyard for some preliminary testing to familiarize...

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In My Face!

There is a really cool narrow alley in Telluride. I thought it would be cool to take someones picture in it. Here is that person. Self portraits at f/2.8 with a manual focus lens are really hard!

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Ring My Bell

Action self portrait cruising down the street on my 1952 Monark Cycle King on a gorgeous summer day.

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Speed Blur

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