For this week’sShooting Challenge , 168 of you were gay enough to not only partake your photography , but to share a little piece of yourself with it . The final result are sometimes funny , sometimes ghost and sometimes beautiful .
https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-self-portrait-5548426
Lead Shot
calamitous backdrop behind my head
2 Costco Arabian tea food containers on either side of my drumhead
2 Nikon SB-800 ’s with a 1/2 cut of profane gel on top of those containers , sitting flush against the lip of the containers so the spark does not spill down , just direct out
I put a clean-cut cooking dish on those flash , resting the handgrip of the cup of tea on the chief of the twinkling so they fire directly into the smasher
I put 2 black material go betweens on top of the dish ’s handles to address the light into the mantrap and not up , pee-pee the dish and the water the lighter for the face
Shot with a Nikon D700 with a Nikon 17 - 35 mm lens at F8 , 1/250sec at ISO 200 , shutter and flashes were wireless
-Ryan Holloway
Sketchy Character
i used a 10 MP Sanyo photographic camera , Photoshop CS3 , claudication 2.6 , and graphite pencil on paper .
The reason i did nt use a real pic of myself is because i detest having my painting taken . I think my art and were i make it demonstrate more of my personality than my own appearence , that s also why i disembowel it in pencil , gives it kinda a wispy look but also to be an impermanent culture medium .
[ erectile dysfunction note : I did n’t make much clear regarding Photoshops for this challenge — my fracture . But I love these sketch - establish photo compositions , and this has a in particular wonderful mise - nut - scène . ]
-Nick Strait
Shot on a Cellphone
Self - Portrait snapshot with iPhone 3GS , using the Hipstamatic Camera app with ambient visible light from my MacBook Pro .
-Justin Berger
My Little Angel
Shot with a Canon 30d
Sigma 17 - 70 lens
Handheld shot of myself , gain of a gloriole with some billet editing . convert to Black and White .
[ male erecticle dysfunction note : Is the annulus sincere ? I think so … but the slightest touch of ambiguity in the reflexion leaves me wondering . fuck that . ]
-Andy Graber
Photoshop-free
This photo was taken with a Canon Digital Rebel XS . I used a 50/1.8 lens system reversed onto a 100 - 300 zoom lens to enamour it . Other mise en scene : ISO-400 , f/4.5 , 1/100th of a sec .
[ erectile dysfunction bill : A fantastical take on the classic photographic camera - forward reflexion ego - portrayal . ]
-Andy Cribb
Ginger Jokes Will Ensue
photographic camera : canyon 50D
Lens : Canon 50 mm f/1.8
ISO 200
f/1.8
1/50 second exposure
Taken by holding my camera at arm ’s length in between reading a few magazines at Borders .
[ Ed note of hand : Perfect harvest ]
-Donny Warbritton
Nothing Subtle
I scud this motion-picture show using my canyon EOS 7D with the outfit lens , 28 - 135 , jump on on a tripod . The circumstance for the final shot were F/7.1 , ISO 100 , 1/250
-Branden Kerr
Wake Up
television camera : Nikon D5000
Lens : Nikon 18 - 105 mm
ISO 1600
f/3.5
1/8 sec exposure
Nobody is more themselves than when they first rouse up in the morning time , so I set up my tv camera on my bedside table the night before . The first affair I did when I woke up was to grab the remote control and dawn off a few .
[ Ed banker’s bill : Clever and efficient . ]
-Sean Edward
Revenge of the Nerd
“ Giant Rampant Nerd ” The background knowledge picture was study on my commute base . Picture of myself , heater , and eggbeater were added later in PS
-Phil Gullett
Photoshop-free Part II
Camera : Sony a700
Lens(es ): Minolta 50 mm 1.7 / Sigma 24 mm 2.8
ISO : 400
Shutter Speed : 1/80
Aperture : 1.7 / 2.8
Lighting : Alien Bees ab800 ( camera flop high up through octabox )
For this guesswork , I first used my 50 mm at 1.7 for the portrayal of my typeface ( the photograph on the iPad ) , the bottom one-half of my body ( photo on the Macbook ) and used the iphone ’s tv camera to take a mental picture of the sofa behind it . I then put the photos on the machine an spent about an eternity line up all the devices with my eubstance , shooting almost 100 takes with the 24 mm lens at 2.8 .
-Jonathan Vazquez
WTF?
canyon EOS 5D MARK II , F/4.0 , ISO 250 , Alien bee B800 flash unit with rectangular giant softbox , unvarnished black paper background
After watching Hellraiser , I was reminded of the infamous chain of mountains pull a poor man apart death aspect
[ male erecticle dysfunction note : I say “ WTF ” with passion . ]
-Severine Arend
The Impressionist
The image was charm using a Canon G9 placed inside a shoe - boxful - camera - obscura . Tech eyeglasses : Canon Powershot G9 , 15 sec exposure , f/2,8 , ISO400
-Tommy Poulsen
Floating
Canon G11
I used ISO 80 , f/4 at 1/640
[ erectile dysfunction note : The execution crossed with the grain make this hit wonderfully eery . ]
-Loui Nydelius
Beers on the Front Porch
Nikon D80 , Homebuilt Budweiser pinhole lens mounted on a drilled lens of the eye chapiter , ASA 3200 , 4 second photo .
[ male erecticle dysfunction note : Something about a guy drinking a Bud on his porch , lighting a fag , potential nursing bottle of moonshine at his back , captured with a Bud - based camera … it ’s bursting with charm , top off with the lightest trace of ego - deprication . ]
-Jay Sir Henry Joseph Wood
WINNER
Camera : Canon 20D
Lens : 24 mm
atomic number 9 : 2.2
speeding : 1/40
ISO : 100
the flame is veridical as well , i.e. not photoshopped in . i put up my television camera on a tripod , rig up the spark and had to take the picture very apace
[ erectile dysfunction annotation : lie with the subject , the penning , and the ( possibly unintentional ) literal but playful take on the onetime idiom , “ out of the frying pan , into the fire . ” ]
-Josh Romine
Thanks to everyone who participated for elevating what could have been a bunch of lame Facebook portraits to real art . Enjoy all the entrants in the three galleries below or onflickr . Just observe , there are periodic reasonable but possibly NSFW photos mixed in — depending on the primness of your work .
Gallery 1 ( individual page view )
https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-self-portrait-gallery-part-1-5551930
Gallery 2 ( single page vista )
https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-self-portrait-gallery-part-2-5552103
art gallery 3 ( single page survey )
https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-self-portrait-gallery-part-3-5552127
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