The instructor's notes give a tiny bit of guidance: "Sometimes you get more intimate and thoughtful self-portraits if you're alone when you make them; Think carefully about how you want to portray yourself, and try different things... TRY DIFFERENT THINGS! I want you to do at least three to five different set-ups. Sometime you have to fish around a bit for the best idea."
OK. so now it is crunch time for me - will it be a whole body shot or just a head shot? What lens will I use? Where will the image be captured? Will there be enough light there - in the right places?
This image is titled "A View From Inside". I really do feel like I see the world from inside a bubble. Sometimes it feels like I can see and hear everyone, but they can't hear me - no matter how hard I yell from inside my bubble. I can't remember a time that I did not live inside this bubble. I always thought it was related to a "shy" personality type but when I recently
had my hearing checked and learned I have a hearing loss, the Audiometrist said this was a common report from people with hearing loss - "who wudda thunk it?"
My next series is titled "It's Not a Bad Hair Day". It takes the viewer from how I look when I get up in the morning (if I don't roll my hair before I go to bed - which is a lot of nights) to how I look when I walk out the door - too funny.
Box 2 - contained under a headband - if I'm just staying home - this is a great no work solution-
Box 3 - on with the product to give the frizz some shape-
Box 4 - brushed flat-easy as pie-
Box 5 - sunglasses as a substitute for a head band-
Box 6 - one of those HUGE visors I wear when I walk "the better to protect your skin my dear"-
Box 7 - the ethnic look-
Box 8- the warm suede and fur look (o.k, o.k. it's just faux fur )
Box 9- the wig-
