57/365 Disagreement

Todd Douglas Photography has added a photo to the pool:

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Strobist:
Ambient was a ceiling light above.

Two light setup:
430EX ii at 1/8 power fired into 24" softbox from 3' away and about 4' high. 2nd flash for hair light was set at 1/4 power and shot into bounce umbrella. It was turned perpendicular to my body so that the light didn't hit my face but only my hair to give me a separation from the black background.
Triggered using PW Flex TT5s.

Blog Post:
My motivation for this shot was the cover of this month's Professional Photographer magazine. I didn't crop in as much or use as shallow a depth of field as they did but I'm still happy with the shot. I like how the focus stops at my chin and it starts to get blurry from there back. Pretty amazed that worked as I planned. And it also shows I'm learning! I remember stating a while back that I didn't see the point in self portraits and how blah, blah, blah about them. Well, I can now say I was clearly wrong. These are really helping me to study light and learn about depth of field. So bravo to me.

Named disagreement because to me, my expression looks like there is more going on inside than on the surface. So call it that or constipation. Either works for me...

I originally wanted this to be a black and white and that is why I used this as my main shot, but I am always drawn to color over the black and white so I put the color in as my alternate.