The other day I looked in the mirror after I had been driving. I was still wearing my hat and shades, and I had to laugh. With my too-long-untrimmed beard I looked like, well, not me.
Yeah, not so much a mild-mannered geek as a stereotype from from central casting to be in the background for a scene in a “rough” bar. (Which, in fact, I was once paid to be.)
There are other shots in the batch that don’t make it obvious I was using shoot-through umbrellas (you can see them pretty clearly in the glasses), but I chose these based on different treatments of the light, and for my expressions. It’s a slow process when you have to stop and go behind the camera to see how a shot worked, then getting back in front and duplicating your head angle but altered just a smidge. So getting the reflections under control never really happened.
By the way, the background for those shots is a sneak peek at the shoot I’ll be doing with Harlean (who is a fiction) this afternoon. A shaky phone-camera look behind the scenes:
The set for today’s shoot.
To me, you will always be a “Badass”!! Great pics.
Where’s your leather jacket and bike parked?
That backdrop makes a great bokeh!
Yeah, it does. Which added a challenge to the self-shoot: I wanted the lens open pretty wide, but I couldn’t be sure exactly what the auto-focus would choose. So I put it on manual and used marks to get my head at just the right distance. Some good shots were lost because I was a couple of inches too far back. The second shot of the three above is probably over the line.
I’ve run into that problem too. I will usually enable the focus point indicator in playback mode and do a bunch of trial shots to get it on the mark, while making sure I stand and pose consistently between test shots. A pain in the ass. I got an X20 recently as a carry-around-everywhere camera, and it has this always-on, facial recognition mode that gets around the problem nicely. Just turn it on, and it locks onto the closest face it detects and tracks it.
Are you aiming for a walk-on on “Duck Dynasty’?