About the Image(s)

Another Kelby Year 2 assignment--a self-portrait. Going for something original-- I used a 20x22 picture frame buried in sand about 10' from camera upside down on tripod at sand level. Marked spot 20' past frame, and used 10 sec timer to run & pose. My original idea is that a mirror would give me a different sky and be really cool, but it cropped my reflection off too small, regardless of how I moved the mirror or frame (see example I posted). I think I would need a bigger frame and longer mirror to make the reflection idea work. Real sunset Monday night heavily saturated, then I duplicated & flipped reflection. Photographed 2 nights, about 4 hours each for figuring out setup on Redington Beach near Tampa, Florida.

Post processing: I had to rotate all images, as they are all upside down with the camera upside down. cropped vertical, some changes in Lightroom got me to one of my images you see here. Then into Photoshop to use ON1 post processing to heavily saturate, then select top image and flip with Transform. Then used Liquify in Photoshop to trim up my thighs and waist. Happily, arms overhead thins a lot of issues.

I placed 2nd out of 80 students. Onto Year 3 starting December 2025!

Canon R5, Canon RF 24-105, Sirui tripod with camera upside down. ISO 250 35mm. f/14. 1/200sec