Self Portraits are Hard

taking a self portrait at F1.4, it’s quite hard to focus on your own eyes, and hard to sit still long enough for the timer to go off.

Maybe I should get a wireless remote trigger? Anyways, I was just playing with the new lights I scored from Home Depot.

Learned a little about a German photographer named Loretta Lux the other day in class. Creepy photos of little kids with little or no emotion or facial expressions.

www.lorettalux.de

She takes photos of these kids, and inserts them into strange backgrounds. I thought the photos were great, but were kind of hard to look at after a while.


February 23, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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2 Responses to “Self Portraits are Hard”

  1. lisa on February 24th, 2007 1:15 am

    wow- those look like paintings almost! cool.

    nice work on your self portraits- that is tough. i did a self portrait project in my college photog. class- i think it took about 3 rolls for me to get a few good shots.

  2. lisa on February 25th, 2007 9:40 pm

    I just saw yesterday that this photographer is part of an exhibit at the Fort Worth Modern. Ill have to check it out.

    Also came across this photographer today and thoguht you would like:

    http://www.janvonholleben.com/index/

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