Photography
Self Portrait » Tue, Mar 6th 2007 6:29 pm
I took this for use as a profile picture on Facebook and MSN. I never really intended to post it here, but it turned out pretty well and I think I’d like it archived.
The shot is a composition of three exposures into one HDR photo, which explains the sort of glowing look and seemingly-flawless exposure. I touched up some wonky shadows in Photoshop, but left everything else as-is, including the zit on the right side of my face. I did dodge my eyes (one quick stroke over each) and then had to fix the colours a little afterwards. Other than that, this is me.
The photo is horizontally backwards, too; a side-effect of pointing your lens at a mirror. I was going to correct it, but didn’t for two reasons. Firstly, I liked that it was sort of “flawed” in that way. Way back when, I figure they wouldn’t be able to correct that sort of thing either. The photo looks old, and having it flipped adds to the realism of my phoney effect. Secondly, I like the lean the left more than the right.
I’m starting to wonder if maybe I’d be happier doing this photography thing than web design. I think I can go either way when I’m done with my Graphic Design program, but I’m going to talk to people and see. I’ll always be doing both, I think, but photography feels more rewarding. At least it does right now, anyway.
1 becca on Wed, Apr 18th 2007 11:33 pm
I really really really heart this picture…. i like it flipped the other way to Aaron….
2 Emma on Sat, Jun 30th 2007 7:04 am
Oh, Aaron.
How you know your the ‘hawtest’ piece off ass out there!
Anyway, this photo is absolutely brilliant. Love everything about it.
Well, when you putting new photographs up? Take more self portraits!
3 Mark Ballard on Fri, Jul 27th 2007 3:55 pm
Holy shit is this really you? What happened to the tubby kid from high school?…haha!…Take care!
4 Aaron on Fri, Jul 27th 2007 5:23 pm
Haha. I reckon you’ve the wrong “Aaron Wright”. I was a bit heavier than I am now, but I wasn’t “tubby”!