I have started reading the Strobist blog and it got me playing. Its all about everything photography lighting. Lots of relay great stuff. It inspired me for a couple of days. Trying different things, in the last 3 days I have taken about more than 200 pictures of my self. I decided to keep two of them. This one is one that really strikes me.

This makes me look downright scary. Nothing special here. I just have my smirk of a smile, ( Apparently I can't smile properly ) and a look in my eyes that is just a little unsettling. Now the really scary part is that I wasn't trying to make a scary face. That is just me, waiting for the blinking light of my camera's timer.

Has anyone else seen themselves in a picture or video and been surprised at how they look? Ether scary like me here or even Why the hell was I so excited!

Today my sister and I worked on a Christmas gift for our father. In this case the camera was high enough on the tripod that I couldn't see through the view finder, so the framing was a best guess sort of thing. She really liked this one, for some reason. It is kind of cool looking but I'm not that big on it as a portrait. I'm all OOF and cropped out even more than she is... Actually now that I think about it... that might be why she liked this one :)