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self portrait artists.. where are you?
I have been focused on self portrait work lately due to being overwhelmed with client edits... the thought of organizing a model shoot to keep my portfolio fresh is exhausting at this point in my career.. but I am always available to myself during those short lived moments of conceptual inspiration. I would love to see more photographers using themselves as their own subjects... not only do you learn so much about self when doing so, but it helps when working with others. Anyone else going through this now or ever? Apr 23 12 11:09 pm Link I tried self portrait once, it was really hard fitting myself into the frame though  Apr 23 12 11:22 pm Link you mean something like this  Apr 23 12 11:26 pm Link A little something I did for a contest recently... http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/jnd_photog … 059600229/ Apr 24 12 12:05 am Link I would rather take photos of nice models than myself. I guess I'm just not that into myself. Apr 24 12 12:22 am Link i don't like being in front of the camera. can you tell?  Apr 24 12 01:01 am Link Jacob delaRosa wrote: haha awesome Apr 24 12 06:13 am Link 365 Digitals Exposed wrote: can't see the image Apr 24 12 06:13 am Link I tend to test lighting on myself quite a bit. There are a few on my profile page plus one in my portfolio. Apr 24 12 07:26 am Link I've got some interesting lighting conditions in my bathroom and everytime i'm in there and it's pretty sunny outside i'm thinking of making a self portrait...but, really, i've never made one i liked. i think my place is behind my camera and not in front... last self portraits of me: http://netzbeat.de/wp-content/uploads/2 … in_068.jpg http://netzbeat.de/wp-content/uploads/2 … in_062.jpg http://netzbeat.de/wp-content/uploads/2 … in_046.jpg they remind me of not being too lazy... so maybe that's another reason. if i'm on my picture i'm actually not working. Apr 24 12 07:36 am Link See, if I was into self-portraits I'd hang out on selfportraitmayhem.com Apr 24 12 07:53 am Link Eyestorm is one of my favorite self-portrait artists on MM https://www.modelmayhem.com/517787 https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/517787/viewall Apr 24 12 08:00 am Link Apr 24 12 10:39 am Link I have shot myself many times, in fact I have out sold any of my llama shoots hence prooving that old grey men are more popular the pretty young women! http://www.flickr.com/photos/timlarge/4458595652/ Apr 24 12 11:32 am Link OK, this is mine:  Apr 24 12 04:45 pm Link TA Craft Photography wrote: lol, nice! Apr 24 12 04:46 pm Link Skydancer Photos wrote: i know her work well! she's a friend of a friend. are you familiar with ashley lebedev's (bottle bell photography) work ? she has some incredible self portraits as well Apr 24 12 07:00 pm Link Here's some of my self portraiture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitepaint … 625692077/ I take pictures of myself in my room when the lighting is nice and I have my camera closeby. Apr 24 12 07:11 pm Link Greg Easton Photography wrote: Oh my gosh. Why can this not be real? Apr 24 12 08:41 pm Link Me:    Apr 24 12 08:51 pm Link I mostly shoot self portraits. I actually joined MM so I could find people to work with. I'm not tired of self portraits, I just want to progress more. I've worked with several friends with senior portraits and with another friend on a more cohesive shoot, a few photos are in my portfolio. Not much unfortunately. Self portraits are much tougher since it's almost like blindly shooting if you're on location. Well, not quite, it can be tough to imagine what you're doing and how it will look when you're not behind the camera. It's a long process. When I shoot other people, it's kind of a relief just to see what I'm doing, haha. Apr 24 12 09:53 pm Link Apr 24 12 10:04 pm Link I take self-portraits when I start drinking. Does that count? A.  B.  C.  Apr 24 12 10:22 pm Link Just a small sampling of my work  Apr 24 12 10:32 pm Link  Apr 24 12 11:35 pm Link On Self-portrait ... She is my one and only favorite ...  https://www.modelmayhem.com/574535 All of the most beautiful work in her port are her self-portraits ... IMHO Apr 25 12 12:44 am Link I do a lot of self-portraits my avi is of me, but not for the same reasons as you. I mostly do them because it's fun and as well as I am vain ahahahaha Here is a link to my self-portrait work http://erlinda.ca/personal/#6 Apr 25 12 02:44 am Link Erlinda wrote: Swoon. Apr 25 12 02:49 am Link  Apr 25 12 03:13 am Link Simmagination wrote: +1 even wide angle can't capture the entirety of my ego, why bother Apr 25 12 06:36 am Link  Lighting seems to be the biggest thing with my self portraits. It's so much easier to have some modeling lamps on and work with a llama then try to figure out the lighting in my head sometimes. Apr 25 12 06:48 am Link I notice some photographers choose models that look like themselves, I find this interesting. Being a guy, it interests me to make a self-portrait but using a female "version" of myself. Also posing with a model is interesting, if not fraught with danger. Sometimes the model is a painter or an artist and I will pose for them after a shoot, which I love doing because a piece of art is a fantastic gift and it's unique. Myself creating images of myself though, is not so appealing. Apr 25 12 06:55 am Link I think self portraits are very important. Even though your work speaks volumes, the next potential client or persons in general you are looking to work with get a visual of the person behind the the shoot. I take self portraits all the time I just don't post them.  Apr 25 12 06:56 am Link Michael A Broughton wrote: I have the same problem: Apr 25 12 07:09 am Link There is one in my profile. It annoys me to no end that it's the most viewed picture in my profile, considering I'm not nearly as attractive as the pretty girls there. Meh. Apr 25 12 07:25 am Link tina dolin wrote: Hope it works now Apr 25 12 07:32 am Link I'm not nearly as pretty as my models, but here I am: http://ashleyholloway.daportfolio.com/gallery/112199#18 A self-portrait series focusing on creating a character from black and white studio films from the 40's/50's. It's a few years old though... Apr 25 12 09:07 am Link I think its safe to say that most of us prefer to photograph OTHER people/things rather than photographing ourselves, but i was amazed how many people like to see an image of the actual photographer, so i cringed and did such a shot. It's not my favorite image in my port', but it made the "curious" people happy ~ m' Apr 25 12 09:18 am Link Sarah Evers wrote: GORGEOUS s/p work Apr 25 12 10:04 am Link Farenell Photography wrote: haha love it!! totally counts Apr 25 12 10:08 am Link |
