Day 295 - Tired!

This was my second attempt at doing self portraits - the last time was over 2 years ago when I wanted to take a profile picture of myself for posting to Flickr and Facebook.  I had absolutely no idea how to do it back then and I didn't have adequate lighting gear either.  This time was fortunately a much better set-up.

I put my camera on the tripod, and since I'm mostly un-photogenic, I wanted to blur myself out of the shot. The dining area was very, very dark today as it was completely grey and gloomy outside, and therefore I had to use a bit of fill flash, both on and off camera.  The off camera flash was placed to camera right, about 60 deg in front of the tea cup, powered down to 1/32, and zoomed to 85 mm (if I remember correctly).  The on-camera flash was powered down - 2 stops (I used the pop up flash).

I put the camera on the 10 sec. timer and quickly went and took up my position.  I took about 15 shots, this one was the best.