Guess who fails at photography?

[Thunder Doom]

What am I doing wrong? The values I spent hours on have gone to hell, and there's these annoying patches of white in the teeth and eye sockets

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1518/blarg8tl.jpg

Is it me? or the camera? I'm at wit's end

[Bad Brownie]

good photography is very hard b/c you need tight control over the lighting of the surrounding environment to get something decent. Plus your equipment might be crappy. ; )

You may want to play with the levels in photoshop and see if that helps.

[nafa]

In the absence of information, I'll have to suspect that its "you". Modern cameras are too developed to easily accept the blame that they blotch up a photo.

[dogfood]

I'm willing to blame the camera for the date and time, but I think the fact that it's not square in the frame is all you. I generally have to punch up the contrast in PS because the camera doesn't have quite the range of value capture that your eyes do (believe it or not!)