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Self-portrait faux Platinum

I shot this image of myself and a model in a 150 year old private mansion called Casa Dracula in a small town in Baja California... complete with period furnishings and faded paintings/frescoes on the walls. Finding a portraits of the owners on the dresser, I posed the model in front of the mirror, sat down on a chair and manoevred so I could catch just enough of my own reflection in the mirror, positioned my camera on a tripod behind me and tripped the shutter. The image was desaturated and toned and, in keeping with the period look, I copied a border from one of my platinum prints from a few years agi and pasted it onto this image. Hence the title.

Image added: Jan. 2012

COMMENTS:
 
Dan Costello I like this image Sukumar. I like the b/w, the border and the way it is posed. It gets me thinking. I'm not sure you need the owners and the bright light is annoying.
Alastair Cochrane Nice idea and it works well. I'm not sure that it would have been so successful without the border you have used -- good choice.
Mark Southard Very clever technique…………..like your frame concept.
Snehendu Kar -
Gary Davi You have a nack for the nudes, and this one - without exposing too much, it tells a story. The scene tells a story, and I bet every viewer has a different view of what that is. Nicely done.
Allan Fleischer -

Member Bio

N. Sukumar

I am a scientist, photographer, conservationist, wilderness enthusiast and educator. I was born in Calcutta, India, obtained my Ph.D. in chemistry from Stony Brook, New York, and have worked in the US, India and Germany, having spent about half my life in the US and half in India. I now reside in the outskirts of New Delhi with Sunanda, my wife of 30 years, also a chemist and educator.

I am past-president, ex-webmaster and currently chair of the Fine Arts group at the Schenectady Photographic Society, as well as Editor of its monthly Newsletter, the FOCUS. I am presently 2nd Vice-Chair of CPID in PSA. I have exhibited at several local and national galleries, presented programs at PSA and other international conventions, and been published in art magazines and the PSA Journal. My main photographic subjects are nature, landscape, travel and figure. I am fascinated with abstracts and the indirectly perceived. I also paint in pastels and oils. I enjoy both wet and digital darkroom work. I use a Canon Digital Rebel EOS XTi, with Canon EFS 17-85mm USM IS and Canon EF 75-300mm f/1:4-5.6 USM lenses. Accessories include tripod, portable reflector, extension tubes, Lensbaby and filters.

I use Adobe Photoshop CS3, Elements 2.0, Lightroom 3, Zoom Browser, JASC Paint Shop Pro, Genuine Fractals, Irfan View, Andrea Mosaic, Auto Pano Pro, Photomatix HDRsoft and Proshow Gold on a 17.3" quad core Acer Aspire laptop running Windows 7.

 

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