SUPA-F Photography » Photography Studio in Edmonton, Alberta

One of my favorite classes at the NAIT Photographic Technology programme is Fine Art photography. Our first assignment was to remove ourselves as the photographer from a portrait. You could ask people to take a picture of themselves while they felt comfortable, tell them something silly and snap their shot when they didn’t expect it, etc. My “thing” is self portraits, so I decided to do an experimental self portrait in which I had a natural smile. Something that is extremely rare when reviewing my 200-something self portraits.

To do the experiment I simply set up a black background and a simple two-light set up on my couch, in front of the tv. I set my camera to take a picture ever 25 seconds, and watched SNL reruns until I got a natural cracking up, smiling like an idiot capture. I think I got about 600 photos from the couple-of-hours long session, of which about 30 were interesting looking expressions – not the bored t.v. stare.

Here are two of my favorite/most idiotic/infectious looking smiles