Post your creative strobist self portraits along with how you took them.

[bhursey]

Post your creative self portraits here and how you took them. This is my latest. It is a lightpainting/ strobist mix. The idea is that photography is about light and light comes into our camera and is recorded on a media. This is showing light flying into a 4x5 camera and me viewing that light comeining in through the ground glass. This was done with a canon 580 EX hand triggered with a grid through the opening in the 4x5 camera. That lit me then with a flash light I lit the camera by painting light on it then I drew the light flying tward the lens.




New self portrait by Brian Hursey, on Flickr

Strobist:

Canon 580EXII shot through the lense hole in a 4x5 camera at 1/2 power. To lite me through the ground glass. with Rosco 1/4 cto gell.

LightPainting:
Old flashlight to light the 4x5 camera and create the light flying into the camera.

Canon 20D
100 ISO
20 second exposure
f8

This was my last one I did before the one above..


Is it raining?!?! by Brian Hursey, on Flickr

Strobist:
LP160 1/1 Power in umbrella cactus v4
Camera Trigger by cactus v5 radio trigger...

Canon EOS 20D
1/250
f/6.3
ISO 100

[AdrenoJunkie]

Did this with a 580 exii and 430exii behind me to the left and right . I'm holding a cheap lil slave flash that i put a homemade velcro strap on it attached to my hand so it looks like I'm not holding it.

Exif
Camera Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Exposure 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture f/10.0
Focal Length 60 mm
ISO Speed 100
Flashes set to 1/8th power

[bhursey]

Originally Posted by AdrenoJunkie

Did this with a 580 exii and 430exii behind me to the left and right . I'm holding a cheap lil slave flash that i put a homemade velcro strap on it attached to my hand so it looks like I'm not holding it.

Exif
Camera Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Exposure 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture f/10.0
Focal Length 60 mm
ISO Speed 100
Flashes set to 1/8th power

Wow thats a neat idea definitly beats the heck out of mine.

[Frank Schmidt]

On my way to work. Lightpainting an old abandoned chapel in the woods. On camera flash and off camera cheapie strobe on me first. (Holding PowerBait camera bag). Then the rest of the exposure light painting the building and trees.

f/6.3 , 25 sec. ISO 125, 24mm , Canon 60D

[AdrenoJunkie]

Originally Posted by bhursey

Wow thats a neat idea definitly beats the heck out of mine.

Thanks a lot. This wasn't my original intention. I was actually just trying to dial them in as rim lights with my key light off. The way it lit my face caught my eye and, as tends to happen with alot of my shots, I forgot my original idea and ran with this one. Don't sell your shot short, I really dig it. Gives whole new meaning to the phrase 'seeing the light'.

[BigFuzzy]

Ok.. so here's mine. THis was from 2007 when I was first learning strobism.




And the "how":
This was taken at F/9 10 second exposure with the flash with a snoot (made from a rolled up manila folder!) camera left which fired at the beginning of the exposure. After the flash, I used two small flashlights to draw Mr. Light. The flash (my 430ex) was obviously off camera triggered by the canon infrared thingy on my camera. I triggered the camera with the cable shutter relase which was in myh left hand. That's it really.

Slightly xprocessed to add an otherworldly feel. And sharpened on the face.

I also did the below photo a la strobist. Granted the flash is barely off camera.. but since I only had one, I wanted it to light the subject (I did a lot this day) evenly. I had the flash on 1/2 power just off camera. The camera and flash were pretty much flat on the ground using a gorillapod. Next time i'll definitely use two lights.. still low to the ground, but from 45degree angles.


I, of course did my avatar photo in the spirit of strobist, but that image is more about the subject and colors than it is about the lighting.

[SGToliver]

my mind just exploded with ideas the other day while reading through this. I am going to try my hand at something different tonight and post it tomorrow.

[bhursey]

Originally Posted by SGToliver

my mind just exploded with ideas the other day while reading through this. I am going to try my hand at something different tonight and post it tomorrow.

LOL ya just sit down on your sofa close your eyes and start thinking about what type of cool portrait would you like to have. Took me like 4 hours to figure out what I wanted with that light painting one.

[Frank Schmidt]

Cletus: “Well…….now Uncles Sparkles, HowIntheHell you done that?”

Sparkles: “ ‘Twernt that easy, Cletus. Sit yourself down on that hay-bale and I’ll ‘splain it to ya.”

A double self portrait of ‘me’ on the right playing solitaire and surprised by the appearance of my ‘ghost’ playing poker. Who knows who he’s playing with: another ghost , I guess; the house is crawling with them. (I don’t smoke: looks like he does.)

Canon 60D, 21mm focal length, f/16 at ISO 100.

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Off camera flash on tripod left aimed at "me" and on-camera flash fired at shutter opening at “me”.

Flashlight in “his” right hand on camera left lighting “him” later during exposure.
All one image; no layering , no edit.

135 second exposure : (not 1/135 th sec. I’m fast but can’t change my shirt that fast !)

[Rentham]

Originally Posted by BigFuzzy

Al, awesome shot and looks like some serious air. Athlete!