Self Portrait Attempt
Self portraits are HARD. And yet I feel compelled to try and do some. I think this is really more about body image for me than photography. I feel like I've started taking good pictures of other people, and yet I always feel like pictures of me are terrible. But I know that's not really true... I know it's that when I look at my image I choose to focus on the (too many) imperfections. So in a way I think that taking self portraits may help me get over that. I'm not so convinced that will happen, but I'm willing to give it a try. So here we go.
I decided to start with the hardest and my least favorite aspect of my body......... my skin-- so these are close up portraits. I still have high school-ish oily skin. Nothing really helps it. I've heard that the benefit of oily skin is that you don't winkle as much, but for some reason I don't think I'm seeing that benefit either as I already have some decent forehead and eye wrinkles. Wow, it's really easy to talk about my imperfections... Anyway. I took these using some (not much) evening light from our big breakfast nook window. A lot of the pictures are really close up. Because I like taking close up pictures of my kids... or Matt... and I think they look great. But not me... the further away, the better. I'm not wearing any make-up (I hope that's obvious) and I didn't really like any of the pictures. I actually think the problem is that it's not candid. I know I'm posing and I just didn't feel comfortable, and it shows. Not quite sure how I can do a candid extreme close up though. But maybe that would have turned out better. I'll have to think about solving that problem. Anyway, here we go....
I decided to start with the hardest and my least favorite aspect of my body......... my skin-- so these are close up portraits. I still have high school-ish oily skin. Nothing really helps it. I've heard that the benefit of oily skin is that you don't winkle as much, but for some reason I don't think I'm seeing that benefit either as I already have some decent forehead and eye wrinkles. Wow, it's really easy to talk about my imperfections... Anyway. I took these using some (not much) evening light from our big breakfast nook window. A lot of the pictures are really close up. Because I like taking close up pictures of my kids... or Matt... and I think they look great. But not me... the further away, the better. I'm not wearing any make-up (I hope that's obvious) and I didn't really like any of the pictures. I actually think the problem is that it's not candid. I know I'm posing and I just didn't feel comfortable, and it shows. Not quite sure how I can do a candid extreme close up though. But maybe that would have turned out better. I'll have to think about solving that problem. Anyway, here we go....
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