Self Portrait

Hello, my name is Daxton Dubach. This blog will be a portfolio of my work taken throughout the course of a semester in my Digital Photojournalism class. My original concept for my self portrait was going to be an outdoor shot but due to weather conditions and lighting I was unable to get a shot set up so I used the studio. One of my main focuses on my self portrait was to have a very shallow depth of field and to display that in the studio I needed a background. Upon arrival in the studio I found a large chalkboard covered in math equations and thought it would make for an interesting backdrop. Initially it started as just a backdrop that I was probably going to not use and end up reshooting with better weather but after shooting it and thinking about it more I began to really love the concept. It makes my college experience look like "Good Will Hunting" and I think you can't really ask for much more then that when trying to take a photo to describe your college experience unless of course I took a photo in a College sweatshirt chugging a bottle of Jack to recreate the classic still from "Animal House" but that wouldn't be as representative of me. The single light for my face that allows for a slight rembrandt on my cheek and shades out my back eye is one of my favorite lighting styles. Having the house lights on to light the background was something introduced to me that day that I never would have considered doing but the results in still photography are much different then the results through motion picture. Typically for pictures of myself I frame  myself with my right eye forward because my eyes are disproportional and a camera exaggerates it more then I like. I don't like to center my subjects in the frame and so I knew i had to have my back nearly to the edge of the frame and all I really desired was a bust shot so this framing turned out to be exactly what I had pictured and the lighting turned out better then I had expected or pictured in my mind.

The camera I have is a Canon Rebel T5i. The only lens I own is an 18-55 mm but I have access to a few others through friends and family including a telephoto that shoots 24-105 mm. Accessory wise I have a couple extra batteries, a tripod, an attachable flash, a macro lens attachment and a telephoto lens attachment.