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Superb, great light and tones and love the use of negative space.

I think doing self portraits is a great learning curve Lee. Not only do you get more familiar with your settings in a quiet time but you also learn a lot of what it is you expect from someone else on the other side. I did quite a few also in the early stages mainly because I am a cheap and always available model lol….........plus I tend to get excited by a concept and sometimes want to run with it straight away and cant wait to tee someone up at short notice. Yay for you, this is lovely:)

its like your looking right trough me Lee.Very Cool !

Thank you Flamejob, David and Cliff!!! Much appreciated!

Kim ~ You got it girl! EVERYTHING you said is right on! Sometimes you just get so excited by ideas!! Haha fun fun!

Excellent focus on the eyes! Quite striking they are too! Well done Lee!!

Your eyes and eyebrows are to-die-for!
It’s like you’re not trying to look seductive but you can’t help it because you were born with the eyes for it! So perfect it’s like someone has painted this. I’ll happily model for you if you make me look this good! :)

Hehe Lee, thats awesome. In saying all that, if you ever get to Adelaide, you can come model for me anytime. I prefer to shoot others but some of the things I want people to do is crazy and not the most comfortable, so I jump on in. Why oh why would YOU need models when you look like that, you keep doing them self portraits, I adore them. You project a lot of emotion with them and sometimes another person cant capture that as well. Put on your favourite music and get that timer going Lee:):)

Also one more thing on the self portraits…sometimes I also do them because, as you can see from my gallery, I tend to cut off a lot of valued body parts ie: heads etc and I dont want to offend my models by saying, hey, I only want to shoot your bottom half LOL:)

Thanks Paul!! :-)

Hey Leia You can come model for me ANY time!! :-D And thank you for your kind words!

Kim Hahaha SO true about the faceless images! I don’t think they’d take too kindly to that! lol
It is fun putting some tunes on and setting the timer but, as you’d know, can be frustrating and restricting! However when you get good results.. it’s so worth it! =)
And thank you for the massive compliment..

You’re gorgeous!!! And so is the photo. :P You have such striking eyes!!!! Would be nice to look this good in a photo…..

amazing eyes! Love it…..
i never can do dem liquid eyeliners ;)

When you have a model as gorgeous as this why not use her all the time.

Awesome photo

provocative, sultry, sensual, stirring… few words that came to mind when I saw this :)

Wow, that’s great! You look like you’re plotting something devious LOL!

this is truly beautiful…

Striking portrait Lee, and all these comments above really hit the nail on the head already.

There’s something about working in black and white that makes an image leap off the page.
Doesn’t always come off, but in this case it works a treat!

Say cheese!
Leith.

The gaze is piercing and almost feline. A beautifully balanced composition.

I’m the same way Sue, 7 yrs here, but it helps with poses and lighting to practice on ourselves, I have been doing portraits for some time now and couldn’t even begin to guess how much farther along I am by using myself as a model, This is top rate, I love the pose, lighting, and your eyes are amazing!!

LOL OMG I’m so sorry, I just realized I called you Sue color me red I’m sorry sigh Still a gorgeous self portrait though, hehe

You guys and gals are brilliant!!! Thank you so much!

LOL Rain I did a double take!!! Sue?? Who’s Sue? Hahahaha you dag!

Stunning Lee!!! Wow, I really love your eyes Girl!! You have such beautiful eyes … no wonder your self Portraits always do so well!!! Well, you have a wonderful personality too … you know what I mean!!! :P VBS

Magnificent lighting and cropping!

This is just gorgeous. Terrific lighting, composition, framing, everything! The perfect portrait.

When all the world is wrapped up in a face, we continue to look at, look for and look within it time and time again. As in this portrait. Great work Lee…PWR

Hehe Sorry Lee, must have been those eyes, totally made me lose my train of thought.

love the eyes

Oooff ! What can I say that hasn’t already been said! Sultry, sexy, stunning, seductive, saucy, a show-stopper ! (....pardon my alliteration)

love it! good to see that self portraits can be done so successfully – I hope to play with this idea soon too!

Gogeous self portrait Lee! So expressive & emotive.

YOUR REALLY GORGEOUS…thats helping your shots BUT THE SHOTS in your portfolio are ALL GREAT, one after the other…good friggin job!

so beautiful

Talented AND beautiful.
Maybe you can use me to keep your feet warm lol!

Stunning Lee! Great eye contact and use of negative space :)