April 30, 2025| Time - 15:56

I am actually not really fond of taking photos myself, honestly, or anything that features me in the frame. I would rather take photos of what I see than of myself. Despite that, I wanted to do something different for the final activity of this course, but doing this made me come out of my comfort zone. While making this, it made me reflect that in life, there are times that we have to face the unfamiliarity, the unknown, to truly quench our curiosity.

Doing this shoot took me two days to make, because of my overthinking brain going haywire with the little details in the frames, and myself included. The time I chose was during the afternoon, it was still hot despite having a fan directly aimed at me while I was photographing myself. I took breaks to not overheat the camera.

I used ISO 250 since on the right side of the image, there is a window that has bright lighting. I added some post-processing as well, changing the exposure, color temperature, color balance and curves, and cropping. I wanted to lessen the brightness of the original image and add a tint of orange. The original image wasn't centered, so I zoomed in.