Picture of the Day: Crazy Hair Self Portrait

Photo by: ayeyister.

I stuck with yesterday’s theme and kept sifting through the “Portrait” tag for something interesting. There’s a color version of the same picture in ayeyister’s photostream, but I initially saw this black and white one and I thought it was nifty. It’s a self portrait, and the hair and facial expression are priceless. I’ve seen a couple of my students when their hair was like this, and no way in hell were they gonna let me take their picture. So kudos for that bit of bravery.

It looks like the picture is lit from camera right. You can see the shadow falling across her nose on the upper left part of her face, and there’s also a catch light in the bottom right part of her eye. I’d guess a window, as the light wraps around kind of softly. But it could also be a lamp I suppose. Curious now…