Blog Post #9600

Old Self Portrait

 

I was going to post something else when I remembered that my blog has reached 9600 posts, so I should celebrate that. It’s an old blog now, and I’m an old person, and this is an old photo! 

I was taking a photography class when I set up this shot. I used a timer because we didn’t have a selfie feature in cameras back then. We didn’t have digital photography either. This was taken on film with a 35 mm camera. I used window light.

I decided to resurrect this old picture because I needed a profile picture for Facebook. I had been using a cartoon-type picture, and Lynn complained that it was ugly, which it was, and it wasn’t amusing me anymore. I found this shot, but I wanted it to look antique to suggest that it’s not a current photo. After all, it’s from the last century!

So I tried to make it look sepia-toned but it came out too dark. I used AI to add a Victorian frame. Then I brought it back into the Photos app and lightened it. I also made another version that’s even lighter, but I prefer the richness of this one, so I’m using it for now.