Improved self-portraits

Shooting people is one of my weaknesses as a photographer. I think I take acceptable landscape shots and animal/wildlife shots but when it comes to shooting subjects that are something so dynamic and interactive such as a human, I can’t seem to be confident enough in pressing the shutter due to self doubts whether it will result in a good shot.

So I convinced my friends to let me take portrait shots of them until I get better and I did. I’ll post some pictures of my friends if they will agree. My newly enhanced skill has also helped me take self-portrait shots, so in the meantime, I’ll just post some pictures of myself:

Got lost in Your Eyes
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EMO
EMO

Tomorrow is a New Day
Tomorrow is a New Day

Lurking behind the Shadows
Lurking behind the Shadows

Melancholic Suicide
Melancholic Suicide

Transported to another Reality
Transported to another Reality

The Days of our Lives
The Days of our Lives

There’s always the Sunshine
There's always the Sunshine

Right Here Waiting
Right Here Waiting

I just recently noticed that one of my eyes is bigger and has a different shape than the other, it sounds freaky, but someone told me it’s just normal. I want to know how to get around that, should I squint the bigger eye it even them out? … do all models taking shots straight on have to squint one eye to produce perfectly symmetrical eyes in photographs?


8 Comments to “Improved self-portraits”

  1. janpretty
    10 January 2008 at 12:20 am #

    marcuus!! how do you that??.. changing your eye color?? its cool!! :)

    yeah..it has to be normal!! coz ive got that too… i have assymetrical eyes.. one is more singkit.. & the eyebag in the other is bigger.. haha!!.. so you shudnt have to worry over that…
    & damn those models!!! im sure their pictures are edited too….

  2. chymera00
    10 January 2008 at 4:41 am #

    Hello Jan,

    Practice and Good Lighting, and a whole lot of Photoshop, hehe. Good to know that it’s just normal makes me feel a whole lot better ^_^

    Thanks for commenting

  3. Earvin
    24 January 2008 at 1:13 pm #

    Hala. Pano mo nagawa yan sa mata mo? Ang galing. Turo mo naman. Hehehe.

  4. chymera00
    25 January 2008 at 2:00 am #

    Salamat … basta na edit sa Photoshop using dodge tool

  5. Earvin
    25 January 2008 at 3:55 pm #

    Ganun ba? Sige try ko nga next time. Hehehehe.

  6. Lee
    4 March 2008 at 11:56 am #

    Marc, hi! Such assymetry of the eyes are normal and quite common. Dont’ worry, I have the same, as well. I was a bit bothered when I was your age as it was more obvoius then than what it is now.
    Great shots you’ve got! I’m quite sure that you enhanced your shots with Adobe Photoshop (version 7?). You have the potential to be a good photographer, Marc….just keep on shooting! Who knows, someday, you’ll be one of the best… Your website looks great, as well! Iba talaga pag Ilongo, ano?

  7. chymera00
    7 March 2008 at 9:33 pm #

    That’s a relief, I guess I’ll just have to stick it out with my asymmetrical eyes. Yes, I edit the photos in photoshop. My camera is only a point and shoot so I have to do some editing to achieve the photos that I want.
    Thanks for your words of encouragement lee :D

  8. Lee
    9 March 2008 at 1:18 pm #

    Marc, Lee here again! After checking out Explore Iloilo and Flickr websites, my oh my! You’re a great photographer, Marc! At your tender age you’re already pro, bud…I mean it! Sorry for under-estimating your capability. It’s good that you copyrighted all your photos in your gallery as there are some opportunistic people out there.
    By the way, Marc, I am an Ilonggo, too, and am proud to be one! Keep up the good work, man!


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