I don't believe we had a thread for portraiture yet.

[Longgrain]

So I guess I'll start, and give you all a chance to see what I look like as well. Some people are shy about posting pictures of themselves, but I'm begining to overcome that shyness, and also give me chance to try on the Black and White feature on my digital camera.

I could probably use a make-over--chop my locks off and ditch the goofy looking Harry Potter glasses, but other wise I think I look okay...

I took it myself, so I hope this captures my personality...

[FloridaPat]

1. Nice photo. Very well done! Thanks for sharing.

[Rocinante]

2. Damn, now that's a great shot

I never knew one could make such a perfect looking b&w image using digital. The woods behind you look like something you'd see in one of those old horror movies of the 30's and early 40's.

I only do film, but I'm going to check digital out for sure. I thank you.

Oh yeah. What happened to the broken saplings behind you? :)

[Longgrain]

8. It was a very misty day

and those saplings are because it's almost winter. It was actually very cold and wet that day, and I was freezing with my jacket off but I did for a lady ;) so I was trying to show off some of my manly physic.

Me personally I resisted digital for years, I loved the more hands on approach you get working in the dark room. So I'm still a bit of a novice at it...I guess your compliment means I'm doing pretty good.

[auntAgonist]

3. Excellent capture!

the woods look mystical almost. Great focus too. What kind of camera did you use?

[Longgrain]

9. The focus was tough to get....

Since it was a self portrait. It's all too obvious to me that I had just quickly hidden the plunger behind my leg.

My Camera is an Olympus c-5000 with 5 mega-pixel's. Incidentally no photoshoping was done here, only a little croping...

[auntAgonist]

12. You did a fine job, I'll have to play some more

with my Olympus C50 it's the 5 mega-pixel also. I'm really new to digital photography and hope to have more time to learn what it is that I'm doing with this great piece of equipment. I'm spoiled.

[SiouxJ]

4. Very nice. the background is awesome!

Don't know about the personality thing as I don't know you ;-) but it's a very cool photo. I love the ragged-edged, brick wall on the left, in contrast with the stone wall next to it. Something very interesting about the juxtaposition there. It draws the eye. The over-all photo has a very New England feel(I was born there though I live out west now). Is that where you are? Nice contrast too. Oh, and I'd leave the locks alone :-) .

[Longgrain]

7. I glad you like the locks.

My hair is sort of auburn/ brown by the way.

Interesting you noted the stone wall. I'm primarily an artist, not a photographer...I did a painting of that same patio corner over the summer...


My Photograph doesn't do the colors justice tho. I was interested in the very same contrasts of jagged and even lines, natural shapes against man-made shapes, and in a painting, contrast of colors as well...

Of course if anybody has any tips for taking pictures of paintings, I sure could use them...

[SiouxJ]

14. Oh! Very cool!

Yeah, the natural stone and man-made brick coming together like that is what caught my attention.

Interesting, I was imagining the larger bricks as being painted black or a dark gray or something.

I love your use of color in the stone! There's a lot of interesting hues there.

I was an art major in college (emphasis in graphic design) but I've always had a love of photography ever since I made my first darkroom print. That was a magic moment.

Taking photos of paintings is always a challenge. Not having seen the actual painting, it's hard to tell but I think you did well on this one.

[fluffernutter]

5. i like the way the dark background is in contrast

to you, and how the little branches all seem to reach for you as well. it makes you the focus of the picture, but the backgroud really gives it mood and fills it out.

great work!

p.s. you do look kind of serious, what are you thinking about here?

[Longgrain]

10. I'm seeing a lot of new faces around here today

thanks for joining us, all of you. :hi:

I liked your "reaching out" observation, since in essence that was my intent of taking this photo. I made it for a friend who had requested a picture of me. I usually just fool around with her, and I have been known to tease her to the point of embarrassment. I was trying to show her that I also had a thoughtful, introspective side to me as well.

But she already knew that, I'm sure. ;)

Later on that same day, I did a more humorous one for her to see, of me kidding around, so she could see both sides of my character.

I'm glad you liked them.

:)(It looks like I'm going to have some catching up to do with her.)

[electricmonk]

6. No photo of me but a couple portraits by me.

This was a hard one to do she could could only hold that position for a second or 2 and the light coming in from the huge windows really tried to throw the exposure out of whack. The original I have on my wall looks way better than this though, only took about 12 sheets of paper in the darkroom to get right then a little bit of photoshopping to bring her out from the background a bit more.




Trying to go for a Siouxsie and the Banshees old school punk look on this one.

[NV Whino]

11. The over the shoulder glamour shot of my cat

Late afternoon with warm light and Nikon D100.
(How can I get rid of the photodump logo? Is there a better site to use?)

[Philostopher]

13. Many of us here use www.photobucket.com

They had a stop on new, free memberships for a while, but I think we're getting close to the date they said they'd start accepting new freebie accounts again.

I decided to go ahead and pay for the service -- I use it a lot on here -- it was $20 a year for more server space and throughput than I'd ever need. The free accounts worked just as well, though, if you don't want to pay for server space over there, you just have a limit on space and the number of times the image can be 'called up' -- I've seen some DUers who had images hosted there for their signature lines, and who post a hundred times a day, who overused their bandwidth. I've never had any problem with it just posting a picture here and there in a thread, though.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

15. Here's one of my favourites that I've done

It's a double exposure, and not technically a traditional portrait, but I really love it and wish I had the same image in a non-double exposure.