Self Portrait

• greenlight

• Nov 6, 2004

someone said ilfosol is good to slow flim,but my friend said is more suitable on fast film.can you give me some advicement on using ilfosol?thanks a lot!

 

• oriecat

• Nov 6, 2004

I wish I could, but I am really bad at seeing and understanding the differences in developers. I tend to just pick one and use it for a while...

 

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  dschneller

• Nov 7, 2004

Interesting affect, what made you think to print through tissue paper?

 

• oriecat

• Nov 8, 2004

The Pan F 50 showed every pore and imperfection of my skin, I was appalled at myself. But I liked the general feel of the pic, so just wanted to try something to soften the details. So I just looked around for what I had that I could use... I also printed another one (diff neg on same roll) through a thin white t-shirt type of fabric. That gave an interesting weave look.

 

• Joe Symchyshyn

• Nov 8, 2004

Along these lines you may want to try printing a portion of the time with different textures... (ie: 50% normal, 50% through cheescloth) You could just print a small portion of the time (20%) get the effect, but not have it be so dominant. Lot's of room for experimenting here.

joe

 

• TPPhotog

• Nov 8, 2004

Don't feel upset even many models have far from perfect skin. We make them look good by using soft / diffused lighting. So if you screen the light with tissue or something similar between it's source and yourself you will be amazed at the results

 

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  modafoto

• Nov 8, 2004

VERY nice! Great face!

The look of the tissue-paper is very interesting. I'll try that, too.

 

• MikeK

• Nov 8, 2004

Last time I thought about a self portrait I was thinking of covering the lens with a horse blanket

I like the effect and the portrait

- Mike

 

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  mikepry

• Nov 19, 2004

I love this photograph. I'm seeing a somberness that I don't see too much and that is my attraction to it. I bore easily of smiley faces on photos and this is very refreshing. Keep up the wonderful work!

 

• oriecat

• Nov 19, 2004

Thanks Mike. This is from an entire roll of self-p's I did, which I entitled "The film that made me cry". You can't really see it, but around my neck is a length of clear film. Well it wasn't supposed to be clear, but my developer died and I didn't know, and it happened to be a roll from a vacation, so nothing I could go back to reshoot. I can still see some of them in my head, they were gonna be gorgeous. Anyway, I used the ruined film as a prop for the shoot, (I think I even bit it once, to show it my ire. ) thus the somberness... plus the fact that I hate my smile!