30 Day Self Portrait Challenge.... AGAIN??

09/05/2006 04:07:54 PM · #176

Hey Look again!

Message edited by author 2006-09-05 16:12:23.

09/05/2006 04:08:43 PM · #177

ok, really edited this time.

Message edited by author 2006-09-05 16:16:04.

09/05/2006 04:08:50 PM · #178

lol. funny timing. i was removing my post at the same time you replied. guess i cant escape my whineyness.

thegrandwazoo

Nikon D750

09/05/2006 04:09:44 PM · #179

I will edit mine if you can get the dragon to edit his LOL

09/05/2006 04:11:56 PM · #180

Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:

I will edit mine if you can get the dragon to edit his LOL

done

09/05/2006 04:12:23 PM · #181

Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:

I will edit mine if you can get the dragon to edit his LOL

LOL. it'll be a cover up operation. j/k it's ok. i gotta SPWW, stop posting while whiney.

thegrandwazoo

Nikon D750

09/05/2006 04:13:08 PM · #182

We got your back!

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

09/05/2006 04:13:32 PM · #183

awwww. now i feel the love. but a bunch of people are going to read this and be so annoyed that they missed the semi-drama. SUCKA'S!. ;)

wavelength

Nikon D300

09/05/2006 04:16:01 PM · #184

I uploaded mine.

Whomever is keeping track, I'm discarding the offsite thing. I'll juste keep em here.

Elvis_L

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

09/05/2006 04:46:41 PM · #185

Originally posted by jaded_youth:

awwww. now i feel the love. but a bunch of people are going to read this and be so annoyed that they missed the semi-drama. SUCKA'S!. ;)

What drama? Do I need to take care of somebody baby?

09/05/2006 04:50:39 PM · #186

LOL. yeah....ME. ;) i'll explain through yahoo.

Elvis_L

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon

09/05/2006 05:00:20 PM · #187

Originally posted by jaded_youth:

LOL. yeah....ME. ;) i'll explain through yahoo.

Ok I'll take care of you when I get home. Guess it is a good thing since my out of shape short ass hasn't actually "taken care" of someone in almost a decade.

Jutilda

Canon EOS-7D

09/05/2006 05:30:47 PM · #188

I'm baaaaaaaaack!!!!!!

I had a ball last time. I hope we get more people to do it. Write all of your buddies. I sent out a few PMs.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

09/05/2006 05:31:22 PM · #189

OK, I'm offically searching for the word I had in my head just a moment ago...

initimated. That's the word.

I need some advice - does everyone doing this have flashes and reflectors and studio lights and stuff? I have none of the above except the dreaded on-board flash... no studio, no lights, no backdrops. I do have one small piece of white posterboard. I'm open to suggestions, other than to go buy lights and reflectors and such. Can't see doing that since a) I don't plan on doing any portrait photography, and b) I'm moving in the not-to-distant future and am trying to downsize in the personal belongings department.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

09/05/2006 05:34:07 PM · #190

Here's mine...

Aren't I just soooooo sexy?

Sunniee

Canon EOS-40D

09/05/2006 05:34:32 PM · #191

Originally posted by Melethia:

Natural light is your best friend!

Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Nikon

09/05/2006 05:36:03 PM · #192

Originally posted by Melethia:

I need some advice - does everyone doing this have flashes and reflectors and studio lights and stuff?

Just use what you have. For a lot of my shots I use my wife's $300 sunlamp for her depression. It's the most expensive light we have but it gives a nice good even light. Good thing insurance paid for it, or my wife would be a raving lunatic right now (oh wait, she's married to me she HAS to be at least a lunatic, just not raving yet).

jdannels

Nikon D300s

09/05/2006 05:41:55 PM · #193

Originally posted by Melethia:

I have the same stuff as you! I use 500 watt halogen lights, the one's used for painting(maybe you will have to paint when you move so it woudn't really be adding to your belongings :)). If you want o get a cheap soft box buy a white shower curtain and put the light behind it, you will get nice soft diffused light. Then put your posterboard to bounce the light back across the subject. Another suggestion is to get one of those silver reflectors for your car as a reflector, or cover one side of your whiteboard with aluminum foil and use llight from a window. Thats all I got right now.
Good Luck all! I don't think I could make everyday, or else I would try it to.

Message edited by author 2006-09-05 17:43:43.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

09/05/2006 05:53:34 PM · #194

Not sure I have a light fixture that would take a 500W halogen... and I don't have a sunlamp. :-)

As for natural light - most of that occurs while I'm here at my pesky day job - not much chance of stepping out for a photo shoot while I'm here. I'll see what I can come up with, or just politely bow out.

alfresco

Nikon D700

09/05/2006 05:55:07 PM · #195

Originally posted by Melethia:

yadda yadda yadda or just politely bow out.

You will *not* bow out.

09/05/2006 06:13:24 PM · #196

Here I am keeping the US safe and sound...

09/05/2006 06:26:03 PM · #197

Originally posted by cryingdragon:

Here I am keeping the US safe and sound...

From the angle of the photo it looks like you're keeping something else safe and sound. *grin*

09/05/2006 06:26:29 PM · #198

Be nice....

Elvis_L

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

09/05/2006 06:26:33 PM · #199

Originally posted by Melethia:

don't bow out. you can get a flod light fixture at lowes for like 5 bucks that is what we used till we got strobes.