In 2008 I started a slightly-too-ambitious project of shooting a creative self portrait every day of 2008. I got through 31 days… then sorta failed. The problem was I hadn’t left any room whatsoever to even miss a single day… or a single minute. The photo HAD to be taken between midnight and 11:59:59pm. That was… dumb. Once I had missed a day… the project was immediately a failure… and I just stopped.
So… I’ve decided to bring back my self portraits… but this time without the necessity of them being daily… or really any restrictions. I just want to start shooting and posting them again… and this time I’ll bring it to my blog instead of just flickr… especially because this new blog does such a good job with categories. New category… Self Portraits.
Here are some of my favorites from back in the day:
these are so good. i wished you hadn’t stopped, but i happy you’re going to do more self portraits.
Thanks, berry! Yeah I was totally bummed when I stopped… it really did force me to be super creative all the time. I’ll probably be starting back up next week and I’ll try to do them as often as possible… but now I have uber-model Tracie to shoot as well… so given the choice I may do more of her than myself. :)
Yay :) I loved your self portraits – I’m excited you’re gonna be getting back into them!
Sweet! Good that someone liked them… which motivates me more to do it.
Unfortunately my camera is dead. I am a photographer with no camera. :( Gonna have to buy one really really soon.
Have to agree, these are pretty good! I tried doing some self portraits for my own website but found that it’s quite hard to take a decent shot of myself. Shooting tethered helps, so that at least I get some feedback on what I’m doing, but still…
Anyway, looking forward to more of these.
Thanks Armand!
It really is tough to shoot yourself, everything from exposure to focusing is a little more difficult, not to mention framing and composition. And when you think you’re going to look a certain way from a certain angle, you’re wrong.
It’s a terrific way to push your creativity though!
I was supposed to be shooting them for the past week, but totally forgot!
I’ll get to it though!