Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Ed Blagden on October 08, 2013, 02:20:55 am
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Not at all sure about this one. Comments and criticism sincerely welcomed.
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I like it.
I see it as an abstract, though,not a selfie. Perhaps with a few more exposures and a little bit of luck with the water, you might have revealed a touch more "portrait" info. ie, your face. : )
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That has to be the most interesting selfie I have seen.
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Looks more like a whozie than a selfie.
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I like it.
I see it as an abstract, though,not a selfie. Perhaps with a few more exposures and a little bit of luck with the water, you might have revealed a touch more "portrait" info. ie, your face. : )
You are quite right. The title is a bit of a private joke. The selfie thing came about when I made a print and showed it to my family. My teenage daughter asked me what it was and I told her, and she said "So Dad, that's a selfie". Showing my age, I had to ask her what a selfie was. Ever since they have referred to the picture as Dad's Selfie! When I took the shot my intention was to make an abstract, period.
I have been going through my catalogue recently and I'm really getting in to photos with interesting textures, and this is one of them. Looks good on baryt paper.
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Ah yes, the selfie...perhaps the most common type of photograph ever taken and at the same time the most authentic too. I am actually pretty fond of selfies because they actually present to you what the photographer wants to portray with less of a filter--a truly willing subject. This one is a bit too abstract to be recognizable but the fact that you identify it as self-portrait is interesting and telling. Nice work.
Here is an interesting selfie my grandfather took in the early 1960s.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trailpixie/5949974397/in/set-72157627098604321
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6012/5949974397_64f8fe22d2_b.jpg)