I was just looking at some Canon camera review done by the guys from DPReview, and although that nice camera (Canon R5C) is slightly outside of our price range, it at least gave me the idea to use my own one for another “selfie”, remote-controlled with my phone, and even with its “kit zoom” lens – I have better ones, but it’s still a nice one.
So I set the camera onto my table tripod, and without using any light except that from my monitor in front of me (and behind the camera), I took this:
I cropped the photo into a 5:4 format using the OM Workspace raw editor, and then in Silver Efex I used preset 002 (which means 1 stop overexposure), together with simulating Kodak Tri-X black & white film, and placed a border of type 11 around the whole thing. Then, back in RawTherapee on Linux I tamed the highlights above my head a bit, and that was it.
It was pretty dark, so even with the camera at ISO 1600 and aperture 4.3 I had about 1/2 a second (0.6 according to Flickr) exposure time. so I had to hold still.
Anyway, like always thanks for viewing.