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Psychologist Phil Zimbardo reflects on his shift from studying evil to studying heroism, with his old TED Talk on the screen of Vintage TED last night.
I love these kinds of shots. The ones you take of yourself in the mirror of your car, or maybe in the window of an airplane or bus! You might be documenting a road trip, or a journey, or just going to visit some friends like I was here. It's not as easy as it looks. This must have been one of thirty or forty tries, maybe even more, to get just the right feeling for this week's BAM.
You see, driving on the highway at 70 mph, with your head half hanging out the window, aiming and focusing your lens, then posing yourself without letting go of the shutter button so you don't focus on the "Objects in Mirror" text or moving the angle where you only get the upper corner of the mirror...well. It's not as simple as it seems. And when you do manage to get the framing right...you probably forgot to look directly into the lens of the camera in the mirror's reflection, so you're looking off into spaceville. And what about expressions? were you smiling? do you have psycho eyes? Is it natural? It's a lot to think about.
But maybe it doesn't have to be this tough. Maybe, if you're on a good vibe, magic happens, and it all just clicks into place. No internal drama, no demands of perfection. But just me, myself, and my canon. Happy to be here. Happy to have the wind in my hair, a smile on my face, my husband at the wheel, heading out on a journey. And now, 30 or 40 clicks and a lot of laughs later, I also have an image to remind me of how care-free and simple life can really be. No perfection needed!
Olympus Mju-II | Ilford Delta 100 | Singapore
Man I love this shot. I vaguely remember shooting it, I was mostly bus and train hopping in Singapore and I guess one of those times I just looked up and snapped this.
I'm trying to make a change, I think it's my current lifestyle that's got me like this, my bedroom is a mess, I used to be able to get work done in there but now I usually just go there to sleep, I even moved my scanner downstairs cause I couldn't stand scanning in there.
I really wanna get active here again too, but I can't find make the time to do it right, i'm just posting for the sake of posting, my contacts don't even know me anymore.. Maybe i'll have to do a huge clean up and just follow a small amount of close contacts... Would that help? Maybe get active in group discussions for once.. I'm looking at my list and holy crap I have more than 500 contacts... I tend to just add people who have a style or camera I like.. Lol I think thats a pretty bad practice. Its like... Trying to confirm my feelings that having this camera will let me do what they're doing which is completely not the case..
Hell, I gotta get my act together.. I'm tired of the one dimensional posts too... I used to get critiqued really well by some people, and they really did help during my first year or two.. What am I saying i'm only 17 and I started maybe 3 years ago.. What the hell is wrong with me, haha I should be glad i'm shooting film among a sea of ignorant digital teenagers... I'm trying to get an old enlarger my uncle had going, i've shot a tonne of images i'm really really proud of..
I think i'll spend some time.. Doing some self reflection, printing and framing some of my old and most favourite work and just lay it all out there, see everything i've done, and ask myself what and where I wanna go from there. What do I want out of all of this..? Have I found my purpose? I've no syle... at least that I know of.. I think i'm subconciously copying my 500 contacts, every image has some trace of western and asian styles which I love so much...
The print thing sounds like a good idea... Anyone can send me a Flickrmail anytime to chat.. I'd love to discuss photography any time of day =)
Yeah sounds good. Sorry, I don't like talking to people I know about things like this, somehow just typing all this out makes me feel better. I think I'm ready to set things straight.
Sometime around Gabriel's birth we gifted Andrew with our old S100 PowerShot point and shoot. Today I got a hold of it and looking through it was like watching a 365 of Andrew. He loves to take pics of himself. He has figured out how to turn on the self timer and set up the camera and set it on a surface so he can look into it. About every 5th shot is all red because he's stuck the front of it into his mouth. I guess it's his journey of self-discovery. If he was on flickr he'd totally be in a 365 self portrait group hehe.
Self reflection is a humbling process. It's essential to find out why you think, say, and do certain things...then better yourself.
I went swimming in the pool at my apartments and the water was sooo chlorinated it stripped almost all the blue and green from the front of my hair...
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1/5 images that were submitted in portfolio, but weren't posted before
This one has been re-edited slightly since Guy saw it on Saturday.
My sister-in-law asked that I take pictures of her cat. I have taken many pictures of her tabby (Ollie) as he is friendly and curious, but Hopper (pictured here) is fairly shy and gets nervous when something is pointed in his direction. So getting shots of him, can be a challenge! However, of the two cats, Hopper is more affectionate, smart, athletic, yet moody and temperamental!
Self Reflection
Julia Margerat Cameron (Cameron) was a skilled portrait photographer. Cameron knew how to make use of ambient light which in her portraits which resulted in wonderful contrast in her photographs. Cameron's portraits have various degrees of chiaroscuro which I love. Portraits are tight shot and Cameron knew how work with her sitter within a tight frame in order to produce the best composition for the viewer. Most of her portraits appear to have a vertical composition. Cameron used what she had available which I have been forced to do at times when taking portraits.
Cameron inspired my self-portrait. I used ambient lighting, similar to Cameron's technic, in my environmental portrait with transitional shades of chiaroscuro/contrast in my self-portrait. Like Cameron, I used what I had available. I took this shot in a room at a certain time of day to ensure I would have the most dramatic lighting. I did a vertical composition in my portrait in a Stereograph style. This portrait was chosen out of several due since I looked pensive and due to the dramatic lighting. Thus, the portraits title Self Reflection. Both the black and white and color version of the portrait were included since most people seemed to prefer the color and I liked the black and white version. Cameron's portraits are done beautifully and I attempted to produce a similar self-portrait.
Digital image taken with a Lumix GX1 fronted with a manual focus 50mm Sears lens.
Captured at Busch Wildlife Conservation Area in St. Charles Co. Missouri.
A self portrait of myself using natural light on a dark cloudy day, I felt the natural light really sets up the mood in this capture.
I shot this with my reflection in fun whilst testing my new (to me) lens - the Voigtländer 50mm f1.2 Nokton Aspherical. I’m really enjoying this lens a great deal, not only in terms of image quality but also from a user experience perspective. I love the tactile feel of this lens, the mechanically coupled focus and aperture rings, the build quality and the benefits of electronic contacts. Getting to know this lens is proving very enjoyable.
Don't tell me we're friends and then disregard me. Don't try to drag me into your world that turns everything upside down. Stop trying to lure me in then let me go.
This photo is unedited except for being cropped.
For the FGR theme
I wanted to take underwater pictures of my Ariel hair one more time before I dyed it RAINBOW so I went swimming in my pool.
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