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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!
Got stuck into the whole digital music / Piracy debate tonight with some friends after a small poker tournament (I just met them there - I wasn't playing)
(I'm kinda amazed someone didn't beat me to this?)
For FGR - Warped Self Reflections
Explored :D
Photo of the Cascade Range captured near the town of Burney alongside California Highway 299. Shasta County. Late March 2013.
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.
Photo of the Rocky Creek Bridge and Highway 1, the Cabrillo Highway, captured in Big Sur. Monterey County. Late January 2013.
I'm not very keen on doing self portraits but during a recent environmental portrait session I had I took this pic of my reflection, my shadow and the shadow of my reflection. I thought it was quite unusual and for once I liked a kind of self portrait.
Nunca me han gustado demasiado los autoretratos pero durante una sesión de retratos ambientales que hice recientemente tomé una foto de mi reflejo, mi sombra y la sombra de mi reflejo. Me pareció poco habitual y en parte por eso creo que me gustó este tipo de autoretrato.
Threatening skies loom large over one of the few remaining grain elevators in the district, Andrew, Alberta, Canada
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.
Tomorrow is my birthday and I turn 39. So this is the last self portrait of me as a 38 year old. I am looking forward to another year of my life. Glad to see this one end as I have experienced the losing of a close friend by his own hand. So I thought this image seemed to fit how my 38th year on earth has been. Here is to another better year to come! Cheers to the my memories of my friend Dan. Miss you Dan.
self-reflection, damaged film
AKA 'Paranormal Selfie'
Yashica Penta J / Tominon C 50mm f/2 / Kodacolor 200
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
an unusually yellow picture of mine, i'm trying to not get set in specific color patterns and edit less uniformly. i made a blue version that maybe i'll upload someday
My uncle took this photo of me on the outskirts of Bayou LaBranch, where the Bonne Carre spillway meets Lake Pontchartrain.
A self portrait taken of my reflection in the window of a building society / bank / "Savings and Loans" on London Road, Brighton, East Sussex. Note my tasteful attire, which I made myself. Bright coloured felt polkadot T-shirt and hand painted purple Takashi Murakami "Mr Dob" jeans.