Self Portrait Thread - Post pics!

yugenm wrote in post #8557087
I'll play too

30D and 70-200 2.8L

Thankyou for your service.

Home alone and playing with OCF.

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BWhahahahaahahahah love the shirt! Do they make mens sizes? I want!

Thanks I knew u guys would understand! LOL, when I saw that shirt I had to have it!! Sorry no men sizes!

Here's me playing around with an "experimental" light source... since I didn't have any willing volunteers, I had to do it myself.

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I hope this isn't too disturbing. Note, this is not supposed to be hell related in any way...it just turned out that way.

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^^^ Pretty cool Dan. Nice work with the flames, and reflections...

Grumpy me!

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One of the cool things about this thread, apart from some of the awesomely creative shots I've seen, is the variety of people here -- other photographers who in this thread put a face to your selves and to your work. Good stuff!

^^^ Do you have one in here Tony? I've not read the whole thread yet..

EDIT - nevermind, found you

newb2pro_1day_or_so wrote in post #8569412
I hope this isn't too disturbing. Note, this is not supposed to be hell related in any way...it just turned out that way.

I really like the detail in the eyes. What trick did you use to get the reflections like that?

rbakeratl wrote in post #8576016
I really like the detail in the eyes. What trick did you use to get the reflections like that?

A couple years ago I decided I was going to torch a bunch of hotwheels cars with rubbing alcohol...so I have a bunch of different fire pictures. The reason I say that is the fire reflections in the eyes are two different pictures to give it a more realistic feel. There's really only one trick. I overlayed each image over the eyes, then channel masked the flames out since the background in my pictures were stark black. Once I overlayed the fire on the eyes, I stretched them so the flames fit the contour of my eyes. Then I used a layer mask and brushed away the fire at the edges of the eyes with a 10% opacity brush. Then I lowered the overall opacity of each layer. The reason I made the center of my eye brighter compared to the outside is my guess perception of how a reflection might really look in someone's eye. I guessed that the center of the eye would reflect more clearly than the edges.