Let’s talk about this photo. First, somehow, it is another photo that required I put on makeup at 9pm in the evening. (I’m thinking of starting a self-portrait gallery.) Second, I needed hair, so I gave the hair rats a go. Hair is now precariously piled on my head. Any movement and it shifts. Third, I thought that it would be good to have a yellow background so I chose our bedroom wall.

I took a few shots in natural lighting using Scott’s Bee (so glad I got him that for Christmas). Yuck. Needed a flash. Back to the drawing board. Finally I got a composition I liked. (This did not include my fabulous hairdo, by the way.) Alas, the picture was grainy just like all my other pictures. Scott sort of shows me how to run it through the optimizer in PhotoShop. (Meaning he did it, I watched, and said if I liked it.) It looked a little better. But after all that, I really didn’t like the yellow background. And, so, lastly, I cheated because it is late and I was too lazy to retake the picture with a black background. I colored over the yellow with black in Paint Shop Pro. I feel so guilty.

But, hey, the fan did come out of the Orient!

Others finding their way out of the Orient can be found here: Thursday Challenges