self portrait

Self portrait one:

The idea of this portrait is me trying to convey “who I think I am”. People say I’m a bit out there with wild actions and ideas and at the same time make people laugh or be equally shocked and offended. I chose to have a smile in this because people generally consider me to be a very happy person and I also believe this. I chose to have my other half of my body in the shadow because people don’t know a lot about me and there is so much more to me then there appears. I was also trying to convey the idea that I consider everyone the same and we are all equal underneath it all and nothing can change it, at the end of the day we are all naked. The inspiration came from a girl in a magazine lying on a sheep skin rug posing naked. Originally I thought a sheep skin rug would be a good idea but I had a hard time locating one so instead I stuck with the naked idea with a seamless background.

Self portrait two:

The idea of “who I want to be” is me trying to portray the idea of someone smart, punctual, with a formal sort of look. I’m trying to go for this aspect because it’s something I have never been and it’s something I want to be. I’m also purposefully going for a cheesy look.

Assignment 2 - Lens Aberration Test

Barrel Distortion
The barrel distortion is evident in the far edges of the image. As you can see the gutter is slightly distorted and the wall on the left is also bent. When we first looked through the images, it was difficult to spot any distortion. But when uploaded into lightroom and looked at closely, we could see it predominately. Also by enabeling the profile corrections in lightroom, the barrel distortion was evident even more so. The photo was taken using a Nikon 18-55mm zoom lens with an f-number of 7.1 and shutter speed at 1800.


18mm f/7.1 1/1800





(This is the jpeg version which did not display the correct distortions. We will show the raw files in class).





Pincushion Distortion
It was extreamly hard to catputre the desired effects of the pincushion distortion, even when corrected in lightroom it was hardly evident. Trying to capture the effect of this distoration in the same frame as the barrel was hard because when zoomed in, the main point of focus completely changes.

55mm f/7.1 1/1800













Chromatic Aberration

R/C - 0, B/Y - 0 before













R/C - +86, B/Y - +89 after











We found it quite hard to find a good example of chromatic aberration, so we decided to use this example that we experimented with on lightroom. As you can see it does not change the over all colour but it changes the outlines significantly.