Santtu Määttänen
Visual Poet
I bet we've all done them, for me this is a pretty new project development 🙂 And a challenge, being in charge and in total control while being the subject.
W/NW Selfies (Self-Portraits)
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Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Probably the best selfie I've done ... with the nicest camera I own! (Rolleiflex 2.8D)
malcD
Well-known
nearest pic to self-portrait
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
Nice work, all! But I have to turn on the rant mode for a moment -- when the heck did "selfie" enter the lexicon? "Self portrait" is too hard to say? I suspect the hipsters....
Santtu Määttänen
Visual Poet
http://qz.com/119200/oxford-dictionary-adds-twerk-derp-selfie-phablet-and-more-voguish-vocabulary/
And yeah, I suspect them too 🙂
daveleo
what?
alienmeatsack
Well-known
hac
Established
one of mine ...
Murchu
Well-known
+1. While I'm all for the amusing cutification of words, a la the Germans particularly, 'selfie' is just something that grates whenever I hear it. I had actually thought it was a tabloid invention, but I am sure there are others I should be cursing, as I bang my knobbly cane..
EDIT: Some great and imaginative self-portraits here, I can see this shall be a thread worth checking in on from time to time.. 🙂
sevres_babylone
Veteran
This is me on the right. And it is a selfie, so there🙂
Strangers When We Meet por sevres-babylone, en Flickr
Strangers When We Meet por sevres-babylone, en Flickr
stompyq
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Probably the best selfie I've done ... with the nicest camera I own! (Rolleiflex 2.8D)
Hmm.. I imagined you with more hair keith. Great shot regardless
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I wish! 😀
Oh ... and I suspect the ultimate crime would be a selfie taken with a 'Cron. 😛
malcD
Well-known
one from 1968 with leica 1D and some highspeed film i was given never knew what it was called
filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
Ala Kubrick
jsrockit
Moderator
Melancholy
To grain, or not to grain
alienmeatsack
Well-known
If I am not mistaken, "Selfie" is actually meant to sound like "Cellfie" aka short for "Cell phone self-portrait". Which, in a generation who shortcuts every word on their phone, is too much to type. So "Selfie" was born. 😀
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I love taking pics of myself. I cooperate, I am willing to move to the right light, I hold still when I am asked. I am my best subject. And nothing beats those photos to see you as a person as you change, age, your style shifts, your cameras come and go, etc. IMHO.
Greyscale
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alienmeatsack
Well-known
I shoot a lot of selfies. I guess I like them because it allows me to play with light and shadow and I don't complain. This was part of a set at the tail end of a cold and I wanted to play with some harsh lighting and shadows against a new backdrop cloth.
Self-Portrait by alienmeatsack, on Flickr
Self-Portrait by alienmeatsack, on Flickr
Swift1
Veteran
Here's one of my favorite selfies.
