Which timer, dear reader?

Ambiguity leads to creative vagary, and I have decided that the timer to be set shall be the exposure timer.




Here's what I needed to complete my escape to the camera:

Camera
Tripod
Cape
Portable Flash
Very, Very Dark Room.

I didn't have any assistance, and I'm prone to migraines, hence the almost always with the sunglasses, and right now I have a bastard behind the eyes. Here's why:

A picture is made from how long and strong the light hits the camera (collective "duh" from most), so in a dark room, it takes a very long time for a camera to gather enough for an image. This gives a subject plenty of time to move about the frame, and he/she/it will only be registered on the image if they are stationary long enough for the necessary light to fall - or - the subject may be captured in several different places with a few small, separate bursts of light.

So, I walk casually into the frame, and capture each pose with a burst of light right in my own god*amn face. Hence the headache, also, crotchety and pedantic style. Forgiveness please, oh my masters and peers, etc., etc.

I'll throw in some shots I didn't like as much as the main one, mostly because my favorite makes me look like a Wwwyzzerdd. (three w's, y, two z's and two d's.)

In the below, I shall include me setting the project up, from the metering shots, to the money ones.

So, yeah, please judge.