TimmyA

Arroyo_Infinity

Canon EOS 40D

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 100 Shutter 1/125

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Jan, 2013

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Top Shot Award 21

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Editor's Choice

Outstanding Creativity

+15

Top Choice

+13

Peer Award

Absolute Masterpiece

Superb Composition

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nice, a bit creepy, but i like it:)
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Wow! What a really brilliant shot, so creative! I love it! Congrats!

Congrats. Very cool

Creatively done. Congratulations on your Editor's Choice Award.

Great work. Congratulations on the Editor's Choice award.

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beautiful image, congrats

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Brilliant!

Brilliant ! Nicely done wow! congrats on your fully deserved award :) ..Btw if you have time, take a look at my pictures :)

Very artistic and creative....well done and congrats!

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This is a photo created for a self-portrait exhibition. It represents an emotional faction on my life of privacy and seclusion.

A composite of various photos of the forest of Giant City in Illinois, and a church door. The photo is intended to question the viewers concept of dr

This is a composite of two photos of Tank, a circus performer.

Part of the "Portals" series. Composites intended to challenge the viewers sense of reality.

This is self-portrait regarding dreams. This uses symbolism to represent the plane between the conscious and sub-conscious mind during sleep.

This is a photo created for a self-portrait exhibition. It represents a transitional period of awareness and creativity.

This is an experimental image based in surrealism. It was an idea, which had more to do with the door as a means of moving about in the dream state.

This is one of a series of masks I created inspired by the porcelain masks I grew fond of in the 80s. :)
This is a composite of two photos.

An image created for Dia de los Muertos.

An abstract created from an interior photo of the Madison, WI capitol building.

This is a photo from my "Strange Beauties" series of portraits combined with other photographs. This photo is of the model and the petals of

Behind The Lens

Location

This series of photos was taken in my studio, which is located in Chicago, Illinois.

Time

Since this photo was taken in my studio, and lit with artificial lighting I have the flexibility to shoot whenever I am inspired to.

Lighting

I use Elinchrom strobes in my studio, and for this particular photo I used two lights, one as the main light with a 27" round softbox, and one for the background, which was placed about waist high and pointed up behind my head.

Equipment

I shot this with a modified Canon 40D with a 70-200mm lens. Due to the fact that it is a self-portrait, I set the camera up on a tripod, and used PocketWizard wireless triggers to fire the camera, and Elinchrom lights from my seated position.

Inspiration

For the past 6 or 7 years I have submitted an image into an International Self-Portait Exhibiton. For some of my previous works I have experimented with materials on the human form, so for this particular submission I chose to incorporate them into the image to create an appearance of elasticity of the skin, which allowed me to seemingly join two heads together.

Editing

I created the composite of this image in Photoshop using various photos from the shoot. I had used a minimum of four photos of myself, plus additional ones for the textures. The photos are taken in black & white, so I do not have a need to remove color from the photos. If anything when I shoot this way, I add color into the photo, as done with the eyes. I planned this shoot ahead of time, so I knew how I wanted the materials to move, which made the compositing of all of the elements easy. I believe in working smart, not hard.

In my camera bag

This would depend on the bag that I have on my shoot, and the shoot itself. For my portrait work I favor the 70-200 lens, but also have two 85mm primes, 185mm macro, 24-105mm, and a 16-35mm at my disposal. I have an awesome Minolta light meter, various filters, lens cleaning cloths, extra batteries, Canon Speedlight, Elinchrom and Pocket Wizard wireless triggers. I also have 2-Canon 40D [back-up], and a Canon 6D.

Feedback

If you are a photographer, shoot your own photos, and don't use stock imagers. This allows you to better plan your shoots, and work more efficiently. You should also the learn to use your equipment, regardless of the type of equipment it is, and keep shooting. If you want to learn your equipment, you must practice using it.

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