Photography

Don't usually do this. This is a picture of my son, who has already clearly demonstrated that he ain't afraid of no Internet, so I don't mind posting it. He took the picture.  It's a selfie, albeit a slightly sophisticated one, as it was taken with a Sony mirrorless camera instead of a cellphone. Then I altered it somewhat, just for fun, to make it look sort of like a painting.

Typical haunted expression on his face,
no doubt as he ponders his childhood.

He inadvertently (I think) used what is called "Rembrandt Lighting" for this picture. Rembrandt lit his subjects a certain way and the method is recognizable by the way the shadows fall across the face. This happens to be an almost perfect example of Rembrandt lighting, as a matter of fact.

The Internet does have some sources for this but generally, instructions for artistic methods in photography as found on the Internet usually begin and end with "the rule of thirds." This picture violates that rule, by the way, as did Rembrandt most of the time.

I could get into a bunch of technical crap--actually I would enjoy that--but that's OK. Photographers nowadays (maybe always) really think too much about the gear they use, which is almost to be considered as ridiculous as writers obsessing about what kind of keyboard or monitor they use when they write. In photography, ideally, the picture is the thing, just as in writing, the story is.