dani photography : weekly photo challenge

By: dani photography

Dec 28 2010

Tags: 2010, bathroom, batman, Challenge, composite, glasses, hoodie, iphone, mirror, Portrait, Reflection, Self Portrait, weekly

Category: Photography

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Well, here we are. The last week.

My inspiration for this week’s picture has been a long time in the works, but, like many weeks prior, was changed at the last minute.

For a few months now, I’ve been thinking about how to end the year. How on earth do I come up with an idea to top them all? Simple. I do the opposite. Stay with me here: how about I take my final week.. the culmination of the whole year’s project.. and take a “MySpace” style cell phone picture in the mirror? Haha! That’ll show ‘em.

You see, when I first started this project 52 weeks ago, I got a lot of funny looks. “So… you’re going to take a picture of yourself every week? Oh, cool.” Now, I know my project wasn’t the greatest project ever in the world, but I do know it was a lot more creative than most people thought it would be. And I had a whole lot of fun along the way!

At the last minute I decided, like so many other week’s concepts, it just needed some fine-tuning.

I set up my camera on a tripod in the shower. I went with all natural bathroom lighting on this one, to keep it true to its initial concept roots. I took about thirty different shots of different poses around the room, with a vague idea of how I’d like the image composed. Took it into Lightroom and Photoshop for the post-processing and layering of the images.

As a note, my white balance was set to compensate for the yellow light in my bathroom. It’s the only room in the house without the blue light of compact flourescent bulbs. Hence the crazy blue light in the bedroom. But I thought it worked well to create depth, contrasting colors, and balance with the blue screen of my iPhone.

So.. that’s a wrap!

Next week, at the usual time, I’ll be creating my final post. A gallery of the whole project, along with my thoughts about what I’ve learned during my 52-week challenge.

*Edit* Can you believe I wrote the sign, shot the photos, edited, uploaded… and THEN it was pointed out to me that I had omitted two letters in the word “portrait”. Of course. I managed to correct it in the larger photo above, but couldn’t do a convincing job on the smaller photo. See the spelling error in all it’s glory. Great way to end the year, with the lesson learned, you can’t spell check sharpie

Thanks for looking,
dani