Self shot with camera in mirror?

Self shot with camera in mirror?

  • It is a sign that you are a serious photographer

    Votes: 21 12.5%

  • It is a sign that you are a complete nerd

    Votes: 60 35.7%

  • Its something that beginners do to feel like they belong to some elite club (of nerds)

    Votes: 41 24.4%

  • you couldn´t decide on which of your truly great photos you would use as avatar

    Votes: 46 27.4%
  • Total voters
    168
Heldur

Heldur

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I have noticed quite of a few of these in Avatars, as a progressing beginner will it mean I have really advanced in my photography or morphed into a hopeless nerd?
 
I never liked pix of myself shot into a mirror. Going back to about 1962 I played around with just pointing the camera at myself. My first efforts were with an Olympus Pen with a 28mm f/3.5 lens on Kodachrome II. I then went through several years of using the little Leitz Tabletop tripod sitting on a shelf or piece of furniture together with the camera's self timer, mostly with a 19/3.5 Canon on a Leica M. Finally I boiught a 15/4.5 Heliar on a lightweight Bessa L and learned to operate it one handed, either my right or left, while pointing it back towards myself. I try to incorporate myself into the composition of the background location and other people. I call them "environmental self-portraits" and there are some portfolios of them on line linked from my blog, and the blog itself is largely made up of them. http://thepriceofsilver.blogspot.com About the only "mirror shots" I've done of late have been shot using the outside rear view mirror on my truck, and l don't shoot them while actually driving through traffic.

A lot of the pictures of me on the blog were shot by others. They're not all self portraits.
 
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Congratulations ... you've just given anyone with their own image in their avatar a choice of sarcasm or an insult.

Richard Jenkinson, who was Pitxu in a previous life, has some of the best self portrait avatars I've seen ... constantly changing and always fascinating!
 
Keith said:
Congratulations ... you've just given anyone with their own image in their avatar a choice of sarcasm or an insult.

Richard Jenkinson, who was Pitxu in a previous life, has some of the best self portrait avatars I've seen ... constantly changing and always fascinating!
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But, as far as I recall, none in a mirror with camera in hand, which excludes his avatars from this discussion. :)

It's the 'in the mirror, with camera in shot' bit that pushes things over the edge into sheer nerdery.
 
Heldur said:
I have noticed quite of a few of these in Avatars, as a progressing beginner will it mean I have really advanced in my photography or morphed into a hopeless nerd?
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Or maybe it doesn't mean anything at all.

Keith's early avatar with camera and outdoors-man's hat is one of my favourites.
 
self - as a subject - is wonderful, isn't it ,-)

personally i don't appreciate the camera hiding half of the face, but that's a personal pref
 
FrankS said:
Or maybe it doesn't mean anything at all.

Keith's early avatar with camera and outdoors-man's hat is one of my favourites.
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THAT was a mirror shot Frank. The current avatar was done with my Iskra on a tripod using the self timer. Sadly my faithful hat has died! :p

Gee Nh3 ... you should become a psychologist! You seem to have such intuition when it comes to evaluating people! :rolleyes:
 
Keith said:
Congratulations ... you've just given anyone with their own image in their avatar a choice of sarcasm or an insult.

Richard Jenkinson, who was Pitxu in a previous life, has some of the best self portrait avatars I've seen ... constantly changing and always fascinating!
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No insult, but I personally feel it a thoroughly nerdy thing to do. Each to their own I guess. Thanks for providing an example anyway lol
 
I think the internet is a dangerous place to make asumptions ... some of these avatars may be no connection to the actual people behind the keyboards. I'm actually a thirty two year old pole dancer ... mine's just a pic I found with a google search! :p

What the hell is that thing hiding your face? :)
 
Shooting yourself in a mirror is neither cool nor uncool. It is merely inevitable. Deciding whether or not you should do it is like deciding whether or not to have sex on your wedding night.

Sometimes it can even be kind of semi-interesting

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BTW, what on earth has happened to the embedded images?!!?
 
I went with a nerdy thing to do. I think at one point or another in life it has to be done. It is our way of seing what we look like thru anothers eyes. The mirror keeps os from asking our friends to take said photo, thus cofirming our nerdiness.
 
Rprice said:
I went with a nerdy thing to do. I think at one point or another in life it has to be done. It is our way of seing what we look like thru anothers eyes. The mirror keeps os from asking our friends to take said photo, thus cofirming our nerdiness.
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So why do all these cameras have self timers ... obviously for people who don't have any friends! :D
 
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