Lume Cube lights + iPhone 14 Pro Max = Epic self-portrait photography

It's honestly crazy how big a difference your equipment can make when capturing photos. Even if you aren't using expensive professional gear, you can still make a lot of great things happen if you know what you are doing.

I tend to keep things pretty simple when taking photos of myself. I find a spot in my small apartment and try to create some sort of unique mood with the use of multiple external light sources. I prefer to do this at night so that I don't have to worry about natural light altering my scene. However, as you will see in the photos today, I can for sure figure out how to make daylight hours work too.

My main goal was to capture the natural color of my eyes. Some photos did a better job of doing that than others. A few of them nailed that goal to perfection. Some of the best shots out of this bunch were taken while I was holding the two lights in my hands, which you probably wouldn't have guessed due to the way that I framed them. I always use a timer and tripod for my iPhone to make sure a quality image is captured. All of this together enables the potential to turn a boring selfie into an expressive photograph.

I certainly never had highly detailed photos like this of myself when I was younger. Affordable cameras were just so underpowered back when I was a child. Even the DSLR that I have pales in comparison to my iPhone 14 Pro Max. We are so lucky to have such amazing technology in our pockets. Some like to say technology is bad for humanity, but I like to focus on all of the positive things it has added to our lives.

I first discovered that I enjoyed photography in one of my final years of high school. I had an art class that felt like a joke to start, but then realized how passionate the teacher was. She always encouraged me and truly made me think that I had some potential to be creative. I had never thought of myself that way until that class. I can't even recall the teacher's name, but I can see her face in my mind still.

Clearly, I've gotten used to having a bald head. I mean damn it looks pretty normal to me now that I've had it that way for several months. All focus is on my eyes and beard now. Well unless you are an eyebrow aficionado, then there is plenty to enjoy there too.

That's enough talk about me and my hobby of photography. As often as I do posts like this, you can expect more photos of my smug mug in the near future.

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