Self Portraits

[cjbroadbent]

On a monday morning, nothing to smile about.

[Nikola Dulgiarov]

This winter, I spent a great deal of time at home, so I had little chance of taking portraits of anyone but my family and me. So this one I think I haven't shown:

[Jim Jones]

Double exposure with improvised mat box mounted on a B&J monorail.

[Colin Graham]

Ha, that made my day. The reciprocal birdie is a nice touch.

[Sandeha]

5x7 Wephota NP22 a couple months ago ...



Just testing.

[chassis]

Mr. Broadbent,

A masterful photograph, as usual, and a handsome looking young man!

[Scott Walker]

Double exposure with improvised mat box mounted on a B&J monorail.

Excellent Jim

[Wes Stewart]

2nd image from my 'new' Sinar F


332 365 by Wes-cpmg, on Flickr

[polyglot]

Double exposure with improvised mat box mounted on a B&J monorail.

Hi Jim,

How did you get the seam (I assume there is a seam) invisible? I'm assuming you exposed half the picture at a time because I can't see through your heads to the curtain, so how did you make sure there was no gap or overlap in exposure?

[Jim Jones]

I improvised a mat box several inches in front of the lens with two hinged flaps that met perfectly over the backdrop between my two selves. While there would have been some fade-out in the center of the image of either half, the superimposed fade-out areas combined to make a smooth and inconspicuous transition. Care must be taken with such a set-up to not move the camera or backdrop between shots, and to make the hinged flaps meet perfectly at the right spot in the image.