Myspace style Self Portrait

Meet Josh; he designs t-shirts and wanted some interesting photographs of models wearing his t-shirts. Yesterday I spent most of the day in the studio doing a photo shoot of a photo shoot. In other words I got Josh and his friends to pose (wearing Josh’s hand made t-shirts) with old cameras. The above image shows the man himself holding my Zenit-E 35mm SLR film camera built in 1971 back in Soviet Russia (we were going for something a little different). The lens on this camera is a 400mm f/6.3 fixed focal length lens which would obviously be useless for taking an “arms stretched out self portrait”. Again, to emphasize the point of the t-shirts but spontaneous, unique and humorous.

You can’t really see the design on the t-shirt Josh is wearing on this photograph, so it probably won’t get used (if you’re interested that shirt has four iconic Nintendo controllers on it in felt). Lastly, before you comment that the index finger of his right hand is on the wrong side of the camera to press the shutter and take a self portrait, I am aware of this, but if he had his left hand on the camera body it would mask even more of the t-shirt, possibly even his face and ruin the balance of the portrait.