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Self portrait
How do I take one of these with my new 7D? I set the camera on a tripod and use pocketwizards to fire one flash into an umbrella. One flash gives me that severe look, but to slightly lessen that, I...
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Studio Settings
A few words to get you started on studio portrait setups. When you are shooting in a “studio” (i.e. controlled) setting, your camera settings might be, as I recently pointed: Camera on Manual 100 ISO...
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Portrait tip
As I said before, you can use just about any lens for portraiture. But there are certain guidelines to obey. Like: when using a wide lens, put the subject small in the centre. Then optionally crop. To...
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Grain
I recently, while preparing for a commercial shoot, took a few self-portraits. Including this one: Michael Willems, Photographer (self portrait) As always, click to see it large. (You really do need to...
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More self-portrait, and notes
Here, another self portrait: “self with shadow”. I want to point out a few compositional things about this image: Black and white allows me to concentrate on the subject (that would be me), not the...
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Selfie…
From Hopper to Leibovitz, hotel rooms have always been a fascinating setting for art portraits. I portrayed myself in a hotel in Timmins, Ontario, Wednesday morning, evoking feelings of these prior...
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Oh vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.
An ancient Latin saying. Obviously ancient if it’s Latin. And a self portrait, obviously not ancient, unless perhaps my age puts me into that category. Michael Willems Oh vanity of vanities, all is...
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Day 13
The rest of my self portraits are posted elsewhere, but here’s day 13. At some stage I will re-post all of them here. Day 13 is “making do”. Sleep, shower, shave, etc, TV, sleep, repeat. What else is...
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More self portraits…
In this days of social isolation, what do you do? Me, I get creative. With flash, of course. And apart from cropping and, in some cases, adjustment to vibrance and presence, it’s straight out of camera...
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