Water 03/15 - 03/21 (Josh)

Ok, so I failed last week posting for Self-Portrait. I'm not a big fan of portraits (yawn), I was hungover, and uninspired.

Therefore, this week, I figured, why not try to mix myself into the Water theme. And here's what I got:

My point and shoot camera is waterproof, so I filled up my bathroom sink with water, and then decided to play around with putting my face right above the waterline, and with my hands, I was making different ripples each time to make my face get distorted in different ways. Going from left to right above, the first one was using a vertical splash that went perpendicular with my face. As you can see it always make a nice flash line in the water each time. This was one of the few where that light was not centered right over my face. I like how it makes my eyes go crazy. The middle picture was from making waves towards the center of my face from both sides. You can see here that this didn't make too many flash marks which was good, but really distorted my face. Lastly, the right-most picture is when making swirls in the water. It seems to not really distort but stretch all of my features.

I'm sure I could have gotten better quality pics if my nice camera was waterproof, but it was fun to play around with different tides and see how it came out. Also something to take note of is how the flash was affected with different color tones depending on the ripples and how they scattered the light. Next time I'll get Siva to analyze this for me and tell me why. :-D