2024 self-portrait challenge 41 of 52

Key = camera right above subject (~48” from the face): Flashpoint eVOLV200 Pro with bare bulb with ¼ CTO gel in 4.7" reflector with diffuser.

Fill = camera right, perpendicular to background: Flashpoint eVOLV200 Pro with bare bulb in 65" silver umbrella with diffuser. About 2.5 stops below the key.

Photographer : Myself

Model/Thing : SelfPotrait

Edited : Photoshop (. DL Action From dA.)

Spring 07

2024 self-portrait challenge 19 of 52

Key = camera right, above subject: Flashpoint Zoom II speedlight with 1/4 CTO and MOVO 1/8” grid

Fill = camera left, about shoulder level: Flashpoint eVOLV200 (bare bulb) with 1/4 CTB and 4.7” reflector, bounced on a roll of mylar film that was placed camera right at 45-degree angle and made to flop around with a fan placed below. 1 to 1-1/3 stops below key.

This is my favorite place with the computer. Usually Hannah is on the couch, close enough to pet, but she is in the desk chair again this morning.

taken for Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Floor'

Exposición Obra gráfica

Vanessa Gallardo

Espai 27

Sant Pere més Alt, 27

Barcelona

Del 11 de Diciembre de 2010

Al 15 de Enero de 2011

cause I don't think that they'd understand

"Somedays wont end ever and somedays pass on by,

I'll be working here forever, at least until I die...

Workin' for a livin', livin' and workin'

I'm taking what they giving cause Im working for a livin'"

~Huey Lewis & the News

I've been slacking lately with my pictures. I blame work and the fact that I was sick with a migraine today. But don't worry, I'll be caught up soon.

This was taken yesterday. I had completed a bike ride and run and it was a hot muggy day in Auckland. I know Karen I shouldn't wear my sunnys inside. But Im trying too look cool OK

this is a campaign...

stop-digging-your-nose while you eat...

or while you staring at a beautiful girl...

just stop it...

yet, another silly edition of self portraiture, using self-timer mode. I still got plenty of time to waste while i should be worrying about my assignment submission...*sigh*

(editing : some high-pass, color tool, stamp tool)

fish eye 2 + ring flash

experimenting with my ring flash

i love it!

tho' i look like a retard here

but whatever....hahaha

But you are not alone in this

And you are not alone in this

As brothers we will stand and we'll hold your hand

But I can't move the mountains for you,

~~ from "Timshel" by Mumford & Sons

View On Black

Ben suyumu kazandimda ictim

Ekmegimi boldum de yedim

Alkisi duydum, ihaneti gordum

Sesim de oldu, sessizligimde

Sevistigimde oldu benim..

Sen de basini alip gitme ne olur

Ne olur tut ellerimi

Hayatta hic birseyim az olmadi

Senin kadar ve hicbirsey istemedim

Seni istedigim kadar

Sen de basini alip gitme ne olur

Ne olur tut ellerimi, ne olur

Cem Karaca

Sarkiyi dinleyerek resme bakmanizi tavsiye ederim:)

Selfpotrait

2024 self-portrait challenge 42 of 52

Key = camera right, perpendicular to background: Flashpoint eVOLV200 Pro with bare bulb in 65" silver umbrella with diffuser.

Fill/Rim = camera right above subject (~48” from the face): Flashpoint eVOLV200 Pro with bare bulb with ¼ CTO gel in 4.7" reflector with diffuser. About 2 stops below the key.

Ok I need to honour a TAG. My dear Sweetie pie Rhythm tagged me a few days back and I cannot postpone this any further :D

so here goes :

1. The title aptly describes me . I am extremely dramatic. When I say dramatic I normally mean I quote B and C grade Hindi Film Dialogues and am so full of Ekta and her serials :D.

2. I am a huge fan of Mithun da and Jitender ( specially the Himmatwalla times movies). Amitabh is God and Rajesh Khanna totally hilarious ...

3. I love the smell of Ashtray ( ok i dnt smoke nor do i like people to smoke around me but i do love the smell of ash in the ashtray .. am i sane? )

4. I once failed in drawing when i was in Kindergarden. I drew a sun instead of an egg in a haystack. ...later I went on to win the district level painting competetion later on in school ..... thats me :D

5. I love Karela and can it eat morning , noon and night.

6. My fav color is black and red .. both strong colors

7. I am a true Taurean.. fiercely loyal and as lazy as an ass and well i am built like a bull too.. totally I love the finer things in life :D

8. I love dancing ( i know what my size its quiet difficult to imagine me dancing but I have been on stage since school and have even choreographed numbers.

9. I have a decent voice and I love singing and humming in office. There is also a wierd rumour doing the rounds of the dept that I participated in Indian Idol Auditions ( I didnt i swear .. else I wud have won ;))

10. I am a jack of most trades but master of none. I have a very short attention span when it comes to hobbies. I started making a sweater for Dad when I was in school but lost interest before I even completed the sleeves. I did try the chain stitch but didnt even complete one full handkerchief. I know sand painting, glass painting but never did make more than one wall hanging :D ....i can go on and on and on....

11. I use the "Bit**" word with almost everyone... male or female. Most often repeated words would be Maa Kasam , Wellll.,,hmmm.. hmmm.. hmmm.... nahinnnnnn.... :D

12. My best friend and i havent met for the past 2 yrs and rarely talk on the phone. but we r still the best of friends and the time nor distance doesnt matter to us . Thats me again.. i can love u across the seven seas and the deserts included :P

13. I love chocolates but i rarely buy my own .., i try to keep the guilt away by justifying that since it was given by someone I should eat it and honour the person ..hehe

14. I was very attached to my Father and was a pucca Daddy's Girl but I am more like my mother in looks, temperaments ...

15. I have written an autobiography when in B School and its titled " A quarter bottle of vodka and I "

16. The last one? Phew !! I love tulips ( so u know what to give me to woe me over )

I TAG :

Lucky, Vishh, Devansh, Greeneyes, Sharad, Silent observer, Nitin, Shashwat, Patrick, Tarun ,Mannu and whoever is kind enuf to take it up!

( this pic is taken by Sheeba on her Nokia phone )

montecarmelo, madrid

October 2, 2016

I had a good day. I went to the coffee shop and relaxed.

K.Terengganu

VOB

It's funny - this is how I see myself.

Jeans by Guess.

Shoes by Rocket Dog.

iPod by Apple ;)

(grana)

shot by Gi0

Self Portrait studies

me

Got a new softbox, Westcott Apollo 28x28, also bought the 40 degree Grid. Set it up tonight and took some hand held self portraits, to test things out. Most of these were shot with manual setting via YN-622C, at either 1/8th power or 1/4 power, focal length set to auto

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I haven't practiced my scorpion pose for awhile. It took a while to get there haha

Well this is one of the first shots to come out of my newly infra-red converted A100.

I have also written a tutorial on how to do it and it starts here:

www.flickr.com/photos/gigel/5559186499/

I really hope this will get other people to get their old cameras out of the closet and start doing some IR photography because it rocks.

October 3, 2016

I was greeted by the sun today! It was bright!

September 1, 2016

I had a good day. Work was good.

On English Bay beach.

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Self-portrait

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I got tagged by Jeniffer.... Thanks jen, really appreciate it!!! There you go:

I am an immigrant from Syria

I am a Muslim-Arab-American struggling to define identity in an increasingly polarized world

Husband to lovely Tamara for 17 years

We have three 15, 13, 10 years old jewels

We live on a farm

I love my daily job - a pathologist

Both my Dad and Tamara’s are Military Generals

I am addicted to flickr

I converted to Mac and will never go back to PC

My vice is gourmet coffee

My heroin is the Sunday New York Times and the New Yorker

I am a NPR junkie

I love to drive my stick-shift S2000 in the summer

I cannot wait to go back to Ngorongoro

I believe abuse is contagious: Europeans abused Jews, Jews abuse palestinians, palestinians abuse each other.

I almost gave up hope, but then we elected Obama for change

I always need a pedicure.

Lights go down, it’s dark

The jungle is your head

Can’t rule your heart

A feeling is so much stronger than

A thought

Your eyes are wide

And though your soul

It can’t be bought

Your mind can wander

Hello hello

I’m at a place called Vertigo

It’s everything I wish I didn’t know

Except you give me something I can feel, feel

The night is full of holes

As bullets rip the sky

Of ink with gold

They twinkle as the

Boys play rock and roll

They know they can’t dance

At least they know….

I can’t stand the beats

I’m asking for the cheque

The girl with crimson nails

Has Jesus round her neck

Swinging to the music

Swinging to the music

Oh oh oh oh

Hello hello

I’m at a place called Vertigo

It’s everything I wish I didn’t know

But you give me something I can feel, feel

Check mated

Oh yeah

Hours of fun…

All of this, all of this can be yours

All of this, all of this can be yours

All of this, all of this can be yours

Just give me what I want and no-one gets hurt….

Hello hello

We’re at a place called Vertigo

Lights go down and all I know

Is that you give me something

I can feel your love teaching me how

Your love is teaching me how, how to kneel…

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

U2

vertigo