Post Your Best Shots of... YOU!

Here's a chance for all forum members to share the best pictures of themselves. Whether it's you playing you favorite sport, spending time with your family, an interesting self-portrait or even a picture of you visiting your favorite place - take this oppurtunity to share it with the rest of the forum in this just-for-fun thread. Besides, we forum members get to know very little about each other - We get a name, a number of posts...A biography if we're lucky. Share a picture that you believe represents YOU the best. Here's mine.


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Canon Rebel XS with Canon EF 100mm f/2.0 @ 2.0, 1/160 sec, ISO 200


Strobist: Canon 430EXII at 1/64 power bare left behind subject triggered by yong nuo CTR-301p

Great photos. I love the expressions on both of yours, I think it communicates something about your personality.


Here is my self portrait:


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By the way, Alexniedra, right now your post has the full 10 MP resolution file (3888 x 2592), which slows down page rendering for some users. I suggest creating a smaller version of the photo (say, 528x351 or so), then editing your post to replace it with a smaller version and a link to the full size image. Then everyone can see the post well.

Here's mine, of two minds...


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One more. I was in a different frame of mind!


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Ok I play


I actually like this thread because I've always wondered what all of us really look like. Thanks Alex for starting it!These two images were taken by friends that I shoot along with. The second one was taken a while back and it has always been my profile images since I joined the TDP Forums in January 2009. BTW, as you can see I don't have a Wimberly lensplate on my 500, I do indeed handhold it 100% of the time, heck I don't even own a tripod that can support this lens [:D][:D][:D]


20D + 100 f/2.8L IS, f/5.6, 1/400, ISO 200


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This one is taken with a D40 and 70-300 VR


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I've already shared most of my better self-portraits, but I don't see any harm in putting them in one place. ;-)



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Sean, the way you control lighting has alway fascinated me. These are very nice my friend, the last one is a killer

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thats for sure, great shot!

Sean, your pictures basically blow my mind every single time. Great job - Keep it up!

I typically don't photograph myself, I never know what to do! However, I'm also not a fan of people who don't know how to handle a DSLR shooting me either, so there aren't a lot of pictures of me.


In the midst of No-Shave November with my new Tamron 10-24 @ 11mm


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Not the greatest pic here (didn't realize the girl on the left had keys in her hand until I got home!) but I like it because its different :)


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Sean, your pictures basically blow my mind every single time. Great job - Keep it up!

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Thanks all. But keep in mind, I picked the best of what I had...it only goes downhill from there. :-)

HEre's mine


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From our recent trip to Australia


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Sean, you sure make amazing photos! I'm curious, how are you focusing and releasing the shutter? I'm going to try to make a self portrait today, but the only way I can think to do it is to pre-focus on a spot in MF, set the 10sec timer, and hope I run into the right spot.


Lewis

Here is a shot of me about a year and a half ago. I don't get very many pictures with me in them but I set my camera up and had a friend take a picture for me. This was back before I sold my 5D.

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Sean, you sure make amazing photos! I'm curious, how are you focusing and releasing the shutter? I'm going to try to make a self portrait today, but the only way I can think to do it is to pre-focus on a spot in MF, set the 10sec timer, and hope I run into the right spot.


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That's basically the method I use. The only difference is that I sometimes use a wireless shutter release instead of the timer to trigger the shutter.

Hihi I don't know why but I didn't see the name Fred and I saw Sean Setters underneath it and I assumed it was you SEAN for about a year and a half ago...


I was thinking you gained some age in this small period of time [:P]


My mistake!

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Photo of my girl and other stuff on below site.


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Post at least one so you are an even 100 posts

Well, I shot this one today. I used my new Paul C. Buff 42" PLM. I had 3 flashes firing full power into it camera left. I was able to really knock down the ambient while still exposing the subject (me). It was a fun little experiment...


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Oh gosh...best...NOT, but I'll play, we're all curious to put faces with signatures together.


I prefer to be behind the camera...and still suck at it, frankly[:'(]





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Love the catchlights in your eyes, BES...

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Sean, thanks, this is achieved from my eyes tearing up from staring into the lens and rather uncomfortable position (no tripod), LOL. But thanks. I hope one day i can be 1/16 as good as you are, but I am more of a weekend (or rather quarterly) photographer. I just caught myself yesterday questioning: how the hell do I adjust exposure compensation on my camera? Have not had it in my paws for ages....work.

This is a photo my wife took of me and my son, I think in early November.


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Was this shot taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York?


That chrome background looks familiar!

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Whose image are you refering to? I looked back over them all, andmattsartin posted one with mirrors in the background, but other than that, I didn't see any with a chrome background. I'm pretty sure that his photo was taken in front of the Louisville Science Center.

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Whose image are you refering to? I looked back over them all, andmattsartin posted one with mirrors in the background, but other than that, I didn't see any with a chrome background. I'm pretty sure that his photo was taken in front of the Louisville Science Center.

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That was indeed in front of the Louisville Science Center, I'm pretty much surprised anybody knew what that was :)

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Me about a year ago. 1D mk II, 24-105L @24mm, 1/250, ISO 100 and f10.

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That was indeed in front of the Louisville Science Center, I'm pretty much surprised anybody knew what that was :)

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My wife worked there in the early 2000's. You didn't think you're the only person in the area taking photos, did you? [:P]


Lewis

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Me about a year ago. 1D mk II, 24-105L, 1/250 and f10.

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That sure is an impressive peak you're sitting on, especially without a rope and harness! 14000ft+? Very nice.


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I thought I had the Louisville market cornered, or at least for this forum [H]

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That sure is an impressive peak you're sitting on, especially without a rope and harness! 14000ft+? Very nice.


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Actually, it's on the crater rim of St. Helens, so only around 8360 feet (it is a thousand foot drop to the crater floor from where I'm sitting though... painful at best). Funny thing about the volcanoes around the Columbia river: frequent low clouds makes altitude difficult to judge by eye.





I have a couple fourteeners on the list for this year (Shasta and Rainier), time permitting. However, I have a trip to the Big Island coming up in May and then I'm taking a small group up Hood a few weeks later (if the weather gods see fit to be nice to me this year) so all other plans are on hold until after that.

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very nice! by the looks of you and the place you're in you seem to be an experienced climber! 8400 feet, though, that's still pretty far up! OH *phews* 1,000 foot drop?!!![:|]that might hurt [:P]


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Thanks. I do enjoy this one as far as "me" shots go.





As for me, yes I'm a fairly experienced climber, but St. Helens isn't really too rough in good weather (blizzards in August are a story for another time). You should have an ice axe with you as long as the snow fields haven't all melted (some years they never do) just in case you slip and fall on a steep bit, but other than that it's more of a strenuous day hike than anything... murder on the knees when coming down.





And I suppose "pretty far up" is all relative to the terrain where you live. One of the Nepalese students working in my lab would probably laugh at me for calling any U.S. mountains "tall". [;)]

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As for me, yes I'm a fairly experienced climber, but St. Helens isn't really too rough in good weather (blizzards in August are a story for another time). You should have an ice axe with you as long as the snow fields haven't all melted (some years they never do) just in case you slip and fall on a steep bit, but other than that it's more of a strenuous day hike than anything... murder on the knees when coming down.

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Have you climbed the "South Sister" in Oregon? It's great. Lakes and glaciers everywhere.

Alright guys, I took this one tonight. Gotta love having a bit of free time on your hands. ;-)



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I'm on a kick with these self portraits now! Lack of another model means I have to practice on myself. This is the whole picture, not cut off


Exif: Canon XTi &amp; 50mm f/1.8 II


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Great to see the faces behind the names. Here's mine.





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Always hard to capture shots, those self portraits. Nailing the focus will always be hard when you're not behind the camera ;-)