Self portrait
used a strobelight and flour
used a strobelight and flour
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newanglephotography
May 23, 2015
Thanks guys! I'm hoping to be more active in the community now. Its been a crazy year or so. Thanks for the support!
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Location
Alright so this is a fun one. This was in the basement of my old roommate's house. The ceiling hardly above my head in a room full of clutter. We got flour on EVERYTHING and I mean everything. we tried our best to clean everything up, eventually had enough flour in our trashbag to make bread, but sure enough as soon as my roommate came home I got chewed out for making a huge mess in the basement (turns out, flour takes awhile to settle on the ground from the air folks)Time
Roughly 2 am after a night of drinking and complaining about my recent relationship I decided to play with some photography and an idea I had for awhile involving expression in black and white.I was exhausted from a long day of work and hanging out with a few friends after but I kept wanting to put the emotions I've been feeling on digital film rather than have them just in my head, so we went to the basement with a bag of flour.Lighting
The lighting was a fun one with this. So I'm a broke college student with hardly any money for equipment. This photo took roughly 30 shots or so to get due to the flash being created by a $6 dollar strobe light from a thrift shop with theme worse than meg white's. Beyond that I kept the ISO low enough to only expose my face and the flour while keeping the back ground pitch black.Equipment
My 5200 with a 50mm prime on a tripod with a remote trigger. the flash was a cheap Halloween strobe light from a thrift shop.Inspiration
So I had been dumped recently and decided to play with my camera rather than drink myself to death, with a few friends over we decided to delve into the basement and experiment with flour and other high contrast black and white shots that simulated emotion. I really just wanted to get what I felt in my heart and in my mind into some physical artistic from. Seeing an artistic representation to what I felt helped me say "see, this is how it feels. This is the kind of hurt"Editing
Alright, so my post processing was mostly upping the sharpness and contrast in lightroom to bring out the detail it the flour, other than that I didn't do too much to this photo.In my camera bag
my pack usually involves my d5200, my prime 50, my prime 28, my 18-200 3.5-4.5, and my 8mm fish eye with a ton of extra batteries and SD cards. as well as a couple pieces of aluminum foil to bounce flashes off of and a small notebook for ideas and notes.Feedback
Flour and high contrast black and white work is messy work. I suggest you use a space you won't mind getting powder everywhere, outside if possible. and as for the emotion of the shot, make it real.
