I’ve recently been wanting a super cool, awesomely epic and badass self portrait. Tonight I tried my hand at it. This, from the start, was obvious that it wasn’t going to be my prize and glory, but I thought fuck it; I’ll give it a go.
Of course, with no natural or studio lights, I could only hope to learn technique rather than be left with a kick-ass final image. I had a tripod, a chair, a blank wall, a standard lamp (which you can see in my glasses) and the room’s ordinary ceiling light. I also had my trusty Olympus PEN.
This is the image I captured with manual focus and the 2 second timer:
This is what using some basic and intermediate photoshopping techniques achieved:
But then I got bored of being on the computer so I went and hung out with some girls. I was excluded.
4 replies on “Self Portrait: Who Needs Lights?!”
[…] lark quite a bit so I may take try to make some pieces like this. It doesn’t compare, but my Self Portrait attempt, it seems (due to the cutting out of elements and heavy post processing photo manipulation) […]
Nice job.
– The Doc
hi, just wondered what processing you did on the face ?
For this image, if I remember correctly it was the use of a large, soft brushed dodge tool for the highlights and a smaller soft brush for the burn tool – then to sharpen it all up I used highpass on a duplicate overlay layer.