I did it!! Self pic

well, i always wondered how people did it, and i finally was able to do 2 thing.

Take a complete color image, me taking my pic below, and then use all the manual setting's in adobe to get the over exposure and the saturation down on it completly changing the pic Instead of using the 'switch to gray scale..lol)

Then do the some color and other B&W thing and it look decent for once

So yeah, i am just happy it turned out good, and finally a pic of me i like (ugly side profile)

thats funny...i see you have a start on the santa beard lol.

fun pic! way to figure things out and make a pic you like! thats why i stay on the shooting end. i end up lookin like a total goof....pretty acurate.

kp

thanks for the kind words, i dont know if i have the confidence yet to try and ask someone else to model for me yet, so myself shall do, and the stuble is getting real itchy already!

Fun self portrait!

kathy.patterson wrote in post #2232756
thats funny...i see you have a start on the santa beard lol.

fun pic! way to figure things out and make a pic you like! thats why i stay on the shooting end. i end up lookin like a total goof....pretty acurate.

kp

Not from the shots that I have seen.

Hello,

Nice one. I'd say that it works.

I have come back and looked 3 times now. What I find disconcerting is the Canon being out of focus. Can you do some of your camera and add a sharp version to this image ? Otherwise it works very well. An unwritten rule is that backgrounds being out of focus are a good thing but foregrounds being fuzzy are not.

Nice work. I like how this one turned out!!!

D. Craig Flory wrote in post #2235004
I have come back and looked 3 times now. What I find disconcerting is the Canon being out of focus. Can you do some of your camera and add a sharp version to this image ? Otherwise it works very well. An unwritten rule is that backgrounds being out of focus are a good thing but foregrounds being fuzzy are not.

To have fixed that in the picture, would a large DOF would have solved that when the images was taken?

as for sharpening it up, can try it out , you mean the end of the lense? make it look focused..

Thanks everyone else, i am justloving this one more and more because is the "look" i have always wanted to be able to do do an image and it turned out. (is not cause i am in it, just got no models )

i like it!

getting me in the xmas spirit!

I like it very much. I think we're going to have to start that "holiday greetings" thread sometime in December. I think CDS or Pekka will start one.

Ok, till you try it ... I'm posting an example. The only straight on lens I have an image of is another brand. So don't tell your camera it wasn't a Canon. This took me about 5 minutes.

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Byte size: ZERO | PHOTOBUCKET ERROR IMAGE

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, i get it ahh okay it does look nicer that way, shall remeber that one

pretty cool self portrait. In this case overprocessing really makes the image pop and special! Well done. Craigs edit makes sense

Very nice...processing works great.