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cut-off face self portrait: hackneyed or just pretentious?
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>> Anonymous
It would have been good if the face wasn't cut off.
>> Anonymous
wut
>> Anonymous
it would have been better if the background was more interesting.

it's both hackneyed and pretentious but you're being unabashed about it your expression so, i guess, points for that.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>193957
i'm learning. i don't have time to devote to this hobby so i just realize that i'm producing crap. i guess that's one way to get points.
>> Anonymous
You should buy better glasses and grow a beard.
>> Anonymous
Good attempt, but it doesn't work for several reasons. The background doesn't really work is the main one; it's just a brick wall. Cut-offs are fine if the background is more than just a brick wall.

A few technical things:

1. F/8 why? If you had dropped down to f/4 you'd be shooting at 1/40th, not 1/10th. Or you could've gone to a lower ISO. Let me guess, this is ISO 200, right? (I used to have an S3IS.)
2. Why did you focus on the wall?
>> Anonymous
Are you Private Joker?
>> Anonymous
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Take off the glasses and grin you look like a pedo

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>> Anonymous
>>194542
1a. It's a 1/2.5" sensor, how much DoF do you need for something like this?
1b. Do some tests on the lens to get a feel for it. Camera fixed on tripod, controlled lighting, stationary subject with lots of fine detail and a distant background. Figure out which aperture is sharpest, which has the most pleasing bokeh, etc. With the amount of depth of field you have, your primary consideration should be how it renders the image overall, not insignificant differences in depth of field.

I'd share my conclusions, but my S3IS got stolen before I knew to do this sort of thing.
1c. Regardless, opening up a stop for a lower ISO would've been a better call.


2a. Screens are great to focus with, are you kidding me? Hugely magnified focusing spot. Granted, the way the S3IS makes you use that button on the side would make it hard to use while holding it in front of oneself, but...
2b. Doing self portraits? Hold it to your eye, focus on your hand, nudge it a little to compensate for the lens being slightly forward of your eye. On a tripod? Stand where you'll be standing, focus on the tripod head.
2c. Don't worry about hitting the eye exactly so much. Hitting your forehead is better than hitting a wall, and these small sensors have enough depth of field even at f/2.8 to cover focusing slop in these situations.
>> Anonymous
>>193972
YEAH
>> Anonymous
"iz u in need of maddie?"