Self Portraits…

Aug 31

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So, I completed the second Graphic design assignment this morning…

It was a duality piece, called face to face.

The jig was, take two shots of yourself, no assistance. One of yourself, portraying how you think you look to others, and one that is how you think you look like to yourself… Bit of a self absorbed piece, it was pretty fun picking up my prints from the shop this morning let me tell you.

I used some computer assistance, in the form of canon’s EOS utility software, this enabled me to ‘liveveiw’ the camera, and monitor my shot, set my focus from the remote while in pose, set the timer and punch a few shots out.

I was happy with the indoor one, where I am playing guitar, not so happy with the outdoor one, my eyes are a touch out of focus, and It printed too dark. For my major pieces from now, i will make the effort to print at school, on the colour matched monitors.

EOS Utility with LiveView enabled
EOS Utility with LiveView enabled

While the camera is connected, you can use this mode to frame your shot, set your focus etc.

Unfortunately, I was using the EOS utility on an old PC laptop, Which prevented me from having the shutterspeed/iso/aperture settings open at the same time as the LiveView preview.
LiveView Zoomed
LiveView Zoomed

When in liveview mode, you can zoom in on a point to set focus manually.

Over the next month, I will be attempting to take a long exposure of the night sky, to get the trails, and make the most arty of arts.
Jim out.

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