Hi all! I thought I would do a double post since I was late in writing up my first recipe.
A few seemed interested in this image. I think this was one of those instances where I got lucky noticing how animated the sky looked against a mundane backdrop. I uploaded this image as is and did not do much cropping in photoshop - but I use the Adjustments < Black & White settings with this entire set. I like my darks to be really dark so I simply played with the levels until I was happy with them!
With my self portraits I'm actually attempting to not show my face in any of them so there's some mystery. Here I thought of to only show my silhouette. I waited until I knew the sun would be the brightest at this window and clipped my iphone to my tripod. There's a few camera apps that feature a camera timer. I use this one: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timercam-self-timer-camera/id494952699?mt=8
After quite a few tries I was able to get the figure dark enough. I uploaded it in Photoshop and toyed with the levels to get a better contrast and that was it! Oh and there was a lot of cropping here to get the furniture and things out of the way. I guess that's cheating huh? :)
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