Selca...

...stands for self camera. Which was kind of the assignment this week---self portrait. Can I say I fail? I fail. This one was tough for two reasons: 1)the technicalities of it and 2) the posing [which I suck at]. Anyway, here they are.

In a way this picture kind of really represents me. Plain background = the boring me. The mexi shirt and braids = my ethnicity. Glasses = my nerdy self. Not looking at the camera = shyness or my "I don't care about you" attitude, just kidding. Yeah, maybe you can get some other interpetations from it? I don't know.

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This one was a contender. Also, it may look like I used a flash for these pictures, but I did not. They were taken in my bedroom with the blinds up and a blue bedsheet as my background...another reason why I fail.

It's an adventure!

Well, not really. This week's assignment was subject exploration. I kinda failed on this one. Too much procrastination and not enough exploration. So these pictures are somewhat similar in their set-up but different as you'll see why. So, with no further ado, I present....SoMo.

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So that's him looking at the camera and here he is looking in the mirror.

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Kermy was going to be my first model, but he kind of was too tiny. So I threw this one in here for your viewing pleasure.

When the lights go down in the city...

...you have no light. Which almost happened to me today...which wouldn't have been good. Anyway, let's back track to last week's assignment, which was Light as the Subject. This one was kinda difficult cause I procrastinate too much and sunny days are random and sparce during Rexburg winters, but I made it work. Anyway, here are my light as subject photos:

I decided to try to do the salt and pepper shakers again...but, well, that didn't come out nearly as sweet as my last salt and pepper shaker picture...oh well.

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This one is pretty sweet. I really like glass bottles (mostly because my poppa finds these sweet old school bottles on the sites he works at and he brings them home; one day I'll take a picture of the ones he has collected thus far) and so I took a picture of my coca-cola bottle. It was around 11:30 or noon, so the sun was kinda high and I didn't want to leave my apt. I just placed the bottle in the light (which happened to be showing on the floor, hence the table and chair legs in the background) and give kinda give a little starburst effect. [This is the only one that doesn't have a colored photo because this one was the original. I took with the the Monocrome option on my camera and didn't think about taking a colored photo until waaaaay after. So this one is special :)]




These next two gentlemen are my home teachers. This first one is Darrik. It was sunny yesterday and so we had some good light. The only thing I don't like about this picture is the bright highlight on the side of his face. I'm still trying to figure out how to adjust brightness and contrast when I'm editing and I was too afraid I'd mess it up, so I didn't do much to it. But yeah! Here's Darrik. [We tried going with the mood of remembrance; like when you're walking somewhere or sitting by yourself and you remember something funny or something that just brings your happiness and joy and you get that little smile. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.]

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This funny guy here is Danny. At first we tried going with a serious feel since he's always smiling and joking around, but he couldn't do it (and I totally understood it, since I'm the same way.) I got quite a few good pictures of Danny, but this one was my favorite.

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