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Shooting Challenge: Self-Portrait Gallery Part 2

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I took this shot with my Sony a200. Settings 1/40 F5.6 and ISO 1600

-Ashley Young

Camera: Canon 20D

Lens: 24mm

F: 2.2

Speed: 1/40

ISO: 100

the flame is real as well, ie not photoshopped in. i set up my camera on a tripod, set up the lights and had to take the picture very quickly

-Josh Romine

Nikon D50

1/500 sec

11.2 mm

f/3.5

ISO 200

self timed shutter

-Mike Ewing

Canon Eos 400D Digital

Aperture f/4.5

ISO 1600

Focal Length 17.0 mm

Shutter speed 1/40

-Abel de Hoogh

This self portrait was taken with a Nikon D90, using a Nikon 18-55 VR lens. I used two flashes (at different angles) remotely triggered — a Nikon SB-600 and a Nikon SB-28, both bounced off a wall to soften the flash. Exposure information: f6.3, 1/200, ISO 250, 18mm focal length.

-Mac Mirabile

The Plight of the Working Man

Canon XSi with kit lens(18-55mm)

1/2 sec shutter

f/3.5

ISO-800

-Ryan Medlen

Camera: Canon

Model: Canon EOS 7D

Lens: EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

ISO: 3200

Exposure: 1/4 sec

Aperture: 16.0

Focal Length: 100mm

-Abhiram Bandaru

Taken on a Nikon D90 with my girlfriend pressing the shutter as I couldn’t get batteries for my remote. The idea was to take a load of photos of me doing things I loved doing

-Michael Allen

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

F2.8

1/125

ISO 1600

10 second timer

-Peter Glitsch

-Marian Machado

Canon 7D

Tokina 11-16

ISO 200, f2.8, 1/60

Lightroom 2

-Joseph Gjura

Shooting out of: Providence, RI

Camera: Canon Rebel XSI, 18-55mm

-Becca Alves

Fuji F31fd set on Automatic, override Auto Flash.

I was visting Seattle on a mini-vacation. While Pike Place market in Seattle, and was taking pictures in the rain.

-Paul Freedman

Shot with a 5D Mark ii, 70-200mm F2.8L with speedlight 580EX on camera. Shot during twilight.

-Kyle Ford

Canon Xsi

18-55mm

ISO 400

F/4

1/60

-Randy Thompson

Nikon D90, 50mm f1.8 lens and both on camera flash and an SB600 off camera hand-held with a soft box to soothen things up a bit. Auto white balance and aperture priority exposure at f1.8 to reduce the depth of field.

-John Murray

Canon EOS 5D MARK II, F/4.0, ISO 250, Alien bee B800 flash unit with rectangular giant softbox, plain black paper background

-Severine Arend

After watching Hellraiser, I was reminded of the infamous chains pulling a poor man apart death scene

-Severine Arend

The image was captured using a Canon G9 placed inside a shoe-box-camera-obscura. Tech specs: Canon Powershot G9, 15 sec exposure, f/2,8, ISO400

-Tommy Poulsen

Olympus E-500

40mm lens

ISO-100

F/22

Shutter 60 sec.

I decided to take a picture sitting around the poker table in 3 different positions, with one continuous shot.

-Alejandro Torres

A quick self portrait whilst sitting in the sun with friends.

GF1 with 20mm lens at f4.0

-Richard Lane

Nikon D700

F 22

1/8s

ISO 200

28mm prime

-zensflare

Camera: Canon 50D

Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8

ISO 200

f/1.8

1/50 second exposure

Taken by holding my camera at arm’s length in between reading a few magazines at Borders.

-Donny Warbritton

Camera: Nikon D300

Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)

Aperture: f/11.0

Focal Length: 50 mm

ISO Speed: 200

Exposure Bias: +5/3 EV

Flash: On, Return detected

-Patrick Tully

Camera: Canon EOS REBEL XS

Lens: Kit Lens 18-55 mm on manual focus at 18 mm

ISO 100

Timer at 10 s

Tripod

Aperture F5.6

Aperture Time 1/10 s

4 clothes, 4 hair styles, 4 shoots with timer, Photoshop to join this 4 pictures, Lightroom to correct the colors and white balance

-Thiago Lopes Pereira

taken with 50D, just with a kit lens, f/s was 7.1 shutter speed was 1/400, also used a flash. no one was home so i had the house to myself, and this is what i came up with.

-Jordan Mudrack

I took this in my attic and played around with it and added a texture in Photoshop CS

Nikon D80, Aperture Priority Mode, SB600 flash at 1/4 camera left

10-24mm lens

-Morgan Shevett

Nikon D90, 18-105 mm lens, iso —— i forgot

-Dylan Bennett

I laid the camera on the ground and just kept jumping over it and landing straddling the camera.

Had to leap until i was exhausted to get this shot.

Nikon D80, manual mode, on camera flash TTL

10-24mm lens

-Morgan Shevett

taken with the nikon s220

used black and white filter

no flash

-James Maha

Nikon D300s

AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

-Andon Espeseth

Samsung GX-1S + Shneider dxeon 18-55mm @ f/3.5, 1/2sec shutter @ ISO 100.

You can see the reflections of my 4 screens in my eyes if you look hard enough.

-Florian Stravock

Shot with a Nikon D5000, using the 12-24mm lens, at 17mm. I used a bare SB-24 speed light behind me, using 1/160s shutter speed and f7.1. ISO was left at 200.

-Tony Lanza

I used a Canon T1i and set it in Manual Mode. Used the kit 18-55mm lens. I call this image ‘Delusional after half a bottle of Jose’.

-Neel Kelkar

Camera: 1D Mark III

Lens: Canon 16-35mm II

Shutter Speed: 1/250th

Aperture: f/6.3

ISO Speed: 400

-Krists Auders

Eye of the Holder:

Shot with a Nikon D200 and a 50mm lens. Using a wired trigger, I first took a close up shot of my eye, then another one of my face with my hand in front; then used photoshop to transfer my eye to the hand.

-Pablo N. Piedra

Canon Rebel XSi, 15-55mm lens

Aperture: f / 22

Shutter Speed: 30.0s

ISO: ISO 400

-Eric-John Bigelow

1 Nikon D300s

1 Nikon 60mm f/2.8 macro lens

2 Nikon SB-600

Exposure 1/320s

Aperature F4

ISO 100

-Chau Tu

-Shannon Roberts

Camera: Canon EOS 450D

Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)

Aperture: f/4.0

Focal Length: 25 mm

ISO Speed: 200

Exposure Bias: +1 EV

Flash: Off, Did not fire

-Annie Groeneveld

Camera: Canon 450D EOS; Canon 0.25m/0.8f lens (EFS 18-55mm); auto focus;ISO 1600;44mm;f /5,0;1/13sec;without flash

-Neacsu Claudia

Canon Eos 500D with 18-55mm lens @ 35mm on a tripod with remote.

I shot 3 photos in monochromatic mode for HDR merging but decided to eliminate the darkest image.

-Roland Renne

camera: BENQ DC C640 Digital Camera

ISO: 50

Exposition time: 1/60 s

Digital zoom: 1.00

flash: yes

settings: automatic

-Tomáš Olšan

Camera: Panasonic DMC-LX3

f/2.5

Shutter 2.5s

ISO:80

Edited with Lightroom and Picassa

Mounted on a stool and some books.

I used an old desk lamp for the lighting.

-Charles Ty

Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3 (Lumix brand)

Lens: Standard

Settings: Normal exposure, Intelligent ISO

-Joe Dil

-Victoria Cadisch

For the picture, I used a Canon Digital Rebel XT and a Canon 420 EX flash, direct and on camera. Settings were ISO 200, f/8, 1/200 sec, and -0.7 ev. Post processing was done in photoshop.

-Joe Russo

Shot with a Cannon SX-210. Manual mode, with 0.6sec exposure, ISO 80.

I used a low ISO with the longer exposure to get the motion blur as well as make everything in the lab whiter.

-Stephen Cooke

Canon Rebel XT, 27mm, 1/500, f/16, ISO 400.

I jumped from a nearby playground to get this shot

-Adam Mosier

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSI

F-Stop – f/5.6

Exposure Time – 1/60

ISO Speed – 100

Exposure Bias – 0 step

Focal Length – 50mm

-Gideon Montoya

Eyes Wide Shut

Nikon D90, 50mm 1.8f lense.

0.8s exposure time, f1.8

ISO 100.

read Curtain Sync flash,

Opened my eye for start of image, closed it for rest of the exposre.

-Nils Rohwer

This picture was shot with my Sony alpha A300 camera using my standard focus 3.5-5.6/18-70 mm lens. My camera was set to F3.5 and my ISO was set to 400.

-Kaydee Cox

Taken using a Canon s90, exposure time 1/60 second, aperture f/2.2.

-Brian C Hall

Shot in Studio, with Cannon 50D,EF-S 28-135 f/3.5-5.6 lens, ISO 100, 1/125 @ 6.3. Lighting: 1 strobe w/ Beauty dish, and gold reflector below shot.

-Erin Erwin

Taken with MacBook webcam, with Hologit effect.

-Stephanie Heurterre

You will need a pair of red/blue glasses to see the 3D effect. The photo was taken in Eunpa Park, Gunsan, South Korea.

Canon 50D, Loreo 3D Lens in Cap.

Manual mode:

f-11

4 second exposure with flash

ISO-400

10 second delay shutter release.

-John Hart

Camera: Pentax K-x

Lens: 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6

ISO: 400

f-stop: 3.5

Shutter speed: 1/15

Focal Length:18mm

Nikon D700 and Tamron 17-35mm wide angle lens at 17mm all sitting in a tripod. Exposure was 1/2 second at f22 using iso 200 and a Sing-Ray Vari-ND filter set to 7 stops.

-Rob Nourse

Canon EOS Rebel XT

Lens: Kit lens (18-55mm)

f/4.5

ISO: 100

Exposure time/Shutter Speed: 1.3 seconds

-Joe Huber

-John McNamara

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