Someone asked me in another thread if I would post this new project here while I'm doing it, and I said I would, but instead of posting each day, I figured I'd do a week's worth at a time. That way once you get tired of looking at all these pictures of me, it'll be easier to ignore one thread a week instead of seven
A little background: I chose to do a self-portrait project about 2 months after getting my first DSLR, a K100D, to help me improve my camera and post-processing skills and to force myself to use my camera every day. I'm sure there are subconscious reasons in there as well, but basically at the time I lived alone and had no children or pets or anything else to practice on, and a couple of my friends had joined a group on flickr that was just for this project.
So for two years now, I've taken a self-portrait every day. I just finished year two on June 30th. I decided to do a third year, but this time I'm trying to do a "matching" shot for each day. Ideally either the subject matter or the mood or the processing or the place or the contours of the composition match the self-portrait. I'm also playing around with my lenses to try to either take two radically different photos with the same lens or to take similar photos with vastly different lenses.
Tech notes: All were taken with the K200D, and the following lenses were used this week: FA 77 (with and without extension tubes), FA 43, FA 31, and the D-FA 100 Macro. All photos were processed in Lightroom, and then turned into a diptych with a program called "Dipstych."
So, on to the pictures!
Day One: Beyond the Window
Day Two: Waiting
Day Three: Nightmares
Day Four: Close to Death
Day Five: Welcome to the Neighborhood
Day Six: It's a Tough Job
Day Seven: Worry Beads
Originally posted by K McCall 
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