I keep trying to create a self portrait with some level of focus - making progress:
I should redo it and see if I can get the color corrected.
Showing posts with label Self Portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self Portrait. Show all posts
Monday, October 10, 2011
Self Portrait October 2011
I should redo it and see if I can get the color corrected.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Self Portrait
Taking your own portrait can take an incredible amount of time. First is deciding why you are taking this portrait - is it for the public, to practice your technical skills or because you want to share something about your self with the viewer - in my case it is a Photo School Assignment.
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 1 - frizzy hair - too frizzy to be called straight, too straight to be called curly or kinky-
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-
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-
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