Self Portraits (not mirror) how and why!

[Bluesman]

Helen, both pics deserve a second look, and the second one has a lovely snapshot feeling to it - chopped-off head and all. Very ... 60:s/70:s style..love it. Keep it up!

Cheers /Richard

 

[helen.HH]

Helen, both pics deserve a second look, and the second one has a lovely snapshot feeling to it - chopped-off head and all. Very ... 60:s/70:s style..love it. Keep it up!

Cheers /Richard

How Sweet of YOU ,Richard. & Thank You ....
You were Spot On in your Perception
Both shots done this past Summer & Fall
The 'chopped off head' version
was with a 1960's Canon Lens 35/1.8 on RD1
and YES I Quite Agree
Its got that Retro Feel Going

the other shot a 1958 DR Cron on M2

All the Best to You- H 🙂

 

[Keith]

Helen, both pics deserve a second look, and the second one has a lovely snapshot feeling to it - chopped-off head and all. Very ... 60:s/70:s style..love it. Keep it up!

Cheers /Richard

I also thought that Helen's second shot has something special about it ... there's a quality that makes you keep looking.

 

[JoeV]

4 second exposure on preflashed grade 2 paper negative in 5" x 7" format foamcore nested box camera, plastic credit card sized fresnel magnifier as a taking lens, stopped down to F/5.

Afternoon sun through the window for illumination.

~Joe

 

[Schlapp]

5x7 using shutterless FKD on film. Used darkcloth as shutter. Cyanotype on watercolour paper

 

[Chris101]

 

[rbsinto]

This self-portrait was taken to include in my open-ended Self-Assignment of photos of photographers taking photographs.

 

[Steve Karr]

Hmmmm....

Hmmmm....

Bob,
I always thought you were a handsome black man ... Geez, the internet. I want to be a sexy blonde...

Poof!

Bambi Holiday

I have only done one and it was a class assignment. It has been on my website for years but it is not identified as a self portrait. I will have to do some more some day.

 

[Steve Karr]

In My Next Life ...

 

[Al Kaplan]

Hmmmm....

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"Bob,
I always thought you were a handsome black man ... Geez, the internet. I want to be a sexy blonde...

Poof!

Steve Karr
Film tank shaker"

No, poor Bob. I met him for lunch one day and he's an ugly white dude just like the majority of the rest of us.

Of course there's Helen Hill to consider. Could those sexy self portraits of hers be Bob Michaels in drag?

 

[mac_wt]

From time to time I make a selfportrait at work. It's a place I spend a lot of time at and wouldn't otherwise have pictures from.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I'm always behind the camera, never in front of. So a mirror is a necessary evil if I want to be seen.

then there's this, Rolleiflex propped on a rock from the ground.

Todd

 

[craygc]

Was playing with the Mamiya 7II + flash - but as I had the flash and umbrella mounted on my solid tripod. Unfortunately over the roll I shot using the self-timer the tridpod head slowing began tilting down. After this they just got worse 🙁

 

[selloutboy]

excellent insights and photos!

This made me want to do my own self portrait project 😀
I'm thinking of using my Minolta SLR with my 28mm rather than my FED 5V and I-61 so I could utilize hyperfocal distance and it will be wide enough so I could fit 🙂

 

[Martini]

Self-timer in the desert

Self-timer in the desert

I had to do one for the bio page in a recent show.
One suggested caption: "Would you like fries with that?".

 

[Vince Lupo]

I had to do this one for a magazine article a few years back -- the story was about 'guys and their cars'. They had a guy who was 'Hybrid Guy', another who was 'Hummer Guy', there was a 'Sports Car Guy' (interestingly, it was the fellow who wrote 'Black Hawk Down'), and I was 'Vintage Car Guy'.

Nice thing was that I shot all the other portraits too -- so I was in the article, and got paid for it too!

 

[Burlap Jacket]

This is a selfy taken with a Busch Pressman D on Polaroid Type 54. I used one of those mechanical timers to trip the shutter. Exposure was f11 @ 1/2 second.