Hand-held portraits n' stuff

Last night I was at a friends house playing cards when it dawned on me that I need to start taking more pictures of people. So I started snapping away. Half in color and half in B&W. Here are a few of the color ones. I'll try to post up the B&W ones soon. The lighting conditions were very low lit, we only had one lamp and one rather large TV in the back ground. I had my camera set to f1.4, auto shutter and I believe "incandescent" white balance, and the ISO was at 200 to avoid as much grain as possible. This, besides the fact that I like them, makes them very blurry, out of focus... if you will...


I love hand-held Portraits of myself. As long as the camera is up high.


I believe someone made me laugh.... either that or the last shot made me laugh at myself :-D


Ahhh Jen, my favorite model.



I played with the color on this one a bit, I believe the original had the wrong white balance set, so it had a blue tint to begin with.


B&W My favorite.

Turtle-Neck

Self Portrait

This is actually my most favorite picture of myself. My only problem with it is... my make shift flash reflector rubber banded to the flash :-) Maybe this can be removed with out to much distortion in PS?

SEE yourself

In order to really "see" someone... and to photograph them well, one must "SEE" them SELF... wrinkles and all. Self study of the eyes.