*** Mini-Challenge #544: Self-Portraits ***

This Mini-Challenge begins now, 5-12-19, and ends next Sunday, 5-19-19 at 18:00 GMT/12:00 pm EDT. Host posts/announces the end of the challenge.

Self-Portraits

As a logical follow-up to showing your Passions/Hobbies in the previous challenge, please post some of your self-portraits to show us yourself this time. Photos must show you and must be taken by yourself using the self-timer or a remote-trigger. I trust you to be honest and not to ask your mom to take the shot

To encourage/inspire you to post images you took in the past or to grab your camera right now and get creative, I show some examples below.

It can be a classic portrait like the following taken with remote-trigger and external flash with small, round softbox:



You may also post a joke/something funny like I did with the following combination of two images. I tried to fool some friends with it by telling them that my twin-brother showed up after more than twenty years... This one/these were again taken with the remote-trigger and indirect external flash. You can actually see the remote-trigger in my hand(s) if you look closely:



Or you can post yourself in action like in the following example. It is a crop from a freeze frame of footage I took when testing the automatic follow-mode of my drone:





So please don't be shy and bring them on!

Exhibit


Me (guy standing) in Florence, Italy after victory



Entry #1:




Me again in Florence, Italy after victory

snappyden said:

Exhibit


Me (guy standing) in Florence, Italy after victory

Entry #1:


Me again in Florence, Italy after victory

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Ha, ha, good joke! I just wonder how all your muscles vanished so fast :-D

Good portrait and friendly smile by the way. Hope it was not the waitress or your sweatheart who took it ;-)

Reto B said:

snappyden said:

Exhibit


Me (guy standing) in Florence, Italy after victory

Entry #1:


Me again in Florence, Italy after victory

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Ha, ha, good joke! I just wonder how all your muscles vanished so fast :-D

Good portrait and friendly smile by the way. Hope it was not the waitress or your sweatheart who took it ;-)

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Thanks, wife was out shopping and waitress couldn't speak a word of English, it was an empty restaurant at the time so the waitress enjoyed helping me set up the small tripod and camera for the shots.

And how dare you call my wife a sweatheart, specially on Mother's Day, lol;-)

Den

Reto:

You inspired me to try a composite shot. That is me on the couch triggering the camera with my phone using the Smart memories App.

This my first attempt, so it is a little rough.




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--
Jerry

15 years old - my first serious camera a 120 film reflex camera

A very interesting challenge topic!

Happy to have my Sony rx100MVA back!

Guess which is which.

This is actually pretty impressive when pixel-peeping.

I don't like torturing my cameras by taking images of me. This is as close as I would want to get.



But then there are these two:

X-Mas eve and trying to meet my deadline. One pencil in each hand and plans marked up for me to CADD in later.





Photobombing my poor long suffering partner.



Do my hands thumb wrestling count?



That's all I have.

aloha,

Val

They light up (Now you know why they call me MADMAN)

--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

--
Busch
Take the scenic route! Life is too short to do otherwise.
My Photos

Trafford2 said:

15 years old - my first serious camera a 120 film reflex camera

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This is a valuable documentation of times long gone. Did you shoot this in front of a mirror?

yetishot said:

Happy to have my Sony rx100MVA back!

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Happy that you posted your selfie! Well done. It's good to finally see the faces behind the names.

Dak on cam said:

Guess which is which.

This is actually pretty impressive when pixel-peeping.

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This is a very interesting approach. Thanks for posting.

Val Bueno said:

I don't like torturing my cameras by taking images of me. This is as close as I would want to get.



But then there are these two:



Do my hands thumb wrestling count?



That's all I have.

aloha,

Val

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Thanks for posting. I really love the first one. The second one is not exactly on topic but never the less very nice indeed.

Jerry045 said:

Reto:

You inspired me to try a composite shot. That is me on the couch triggering the camera with my phone using the Smart memories App.

This my first attempt, so it is a little rough.


Entry #1

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Jerry, for a firs attempt this is very good. Thanks for posting.

Bill Borne said:

They light up (Now you know why they call me MADMAN)

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Yeah... but a creative madman at least :-D I also like how you combined BW and colour. Thank you.

66GTO said:

A very interesting challenge topic!

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Thanks. Yes, I think so too. It's nice to finally see some faces. Makes everything a little more personal. I hope you will also come up with at least one ;-)

busch said:

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Very nice! Good idea and well done. Thank you.