day 17 - 22SEP2009

[dakegra]

day 17 - 22SEP2009, originally uploaded by dakegra.

project 365 day 17, 22nd September 2009

the proto-beard finally having driven me half-insane with the itching, I set to it with a razor to tame it to a more manageable and piratical style.

Comments

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

ARRRRRRR, Matey!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

avast!

[jmanna.livejournal.com]

Heh, looks like you're peering through a portal on a ship.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

hey, I don't just point & click for these babies, y'know!


ok, so I hadn't noticed the porthole thing. But I'm totally stealing the idea. :-)

[sirenity.livejournal.com]

I thought you had done it for effect too! hee!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

my inner artist subconscious is clearly working overtime. :-)

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Best self-portrait so far. :-)

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

intrigued - what is it about this one that stands out?

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Well, for one thing you're not looking as deadly serious as usual. :-) I like the touch of whimsy. And, for another thing, it's artistic in a very natural way. Some of your photos have an air of "art for art's sake"; I'm not saying that's a bad thing, and it can be extremely effective, but there are times when I feel the special effects have taken over the photograph. But here, everything just seems to work together, and it's an unusual view without feeling in any way forced.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

'deadly serious' seems to be my default state when taking a self-portrait, it seems. I think I'm just concentrating on trying to get the framing/exposure and stuff right to remember to relax and enjoy the moment.

The smile here was that I'd worked out a way of taking the shot without the camera being caught in the reflection - blindingly obvious as soon as I realised what the answer was!

A lot of the shots so far have relied on tweaking, partly due to *me* being bored with seeing just another headshot of myself and wanting to see how I can push and pull the image into something more visually striking.

I rather like this one though. :-)

photo

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

I like this selfportrait
which seems to capture something
a little different than the others...
something we have not seen.

Re: photo

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

a smile, perhaps? :-)

Re: photo

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

a bit of one perhaps...
a beginning of one and
also an asymmetry

[chiller.livejournal.com]

You look very dashing! You have very good eyebrows, too.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

that's my Buzz Lightyear raised eyebrow look.

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

That suits you :-)

[paula-abroad.livejournal.com]

arrrr

looking fine!

[mazzie.livejournal.com]

this shot makes you look like eddie izzard in a way that I had to physically restrain myself from licking the screen.


::dizzy::

[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

Hummina!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's really good!