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Weekly theme: Self-Portrait

Location: Bear, DE
Date taken: January 24, 2010
Film: N/A
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ50
Lens: Lumix 35 - 420mm
Focal Length: 35mm
Exposure Time: 6 seconds
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 100
Macro: No
Edited: Picasa 3 on MacBook

About the photo: I had been dreading and, therefore, avoiding even thinking about this week's theme. I've never taken a self portrait beyond holding the camera in front of me (and friends) and taking snapshots. Tonight, however, while we were making dinner I picked up the camera and starting playing around with some shots. I knew that I wanted to try an extended exposure shot for it, so I set the camera to shutter-speed priority and then set the ISO to 100. I walked around the house a bit taking some shots. Then I lit a small candelabra and grabbed the Argus from a display of other older camera. I stood against a white wall with the candelabra to my right, held the camera in front of me with the LCD swivelled so it was facing me. I set the shutter-speed to 6, and set the timer to 2 seconds. When the shutter snapped I slowly moved the Argus up toward my face and looked into it. I then moved it back down and looked up. When editing I added some fill-light and desaturated the color.

photo categories: Bill, Color, Self-Portrait
tags: argus, blur, bulb, camera, candle-light, desaturation, glasses, green

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