PB&B sandwich; Inward pointed lens
He Who is Now Here enjoyed a major Western (Canadian, at least) treat sensation this morning -- he ate his first peanut butter and banana on toast sandwich. (Was also the first I'd had in years.)
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One of the main points of advice the photographer who led the photography course I took at the AGO gave repeatedly was that we should do self-portraits often, turn the camera toward ourself. If I wasn't so lazy I'd get the tripod out and do some serious self-portrait work, but unfolding the tripod is so much work that I used a mirror to do a few self-portraits last night. Here's one I love because of how the changing wall textures and colours turned out. (Hope that is evident at the size I'll need to publish the photo). Also, interesting how I've wound up in the periphery of the shot.
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One of the main points of advice the photographer who led the photography course I took at the AGO gave repeatedly was that we should do self-portraits often, turn the camera toward ourself. If I wasn't so lazy I'd get the tripod out and do some serious self-portrait work, but unfolding the tripod is so much work that I used a mirror to do a few self-portraits last night. Here's one I love because of how the changing wall textures and colours turned out. (Hope that is evident at the size I'll need to publish the photo). Also, interesting how I've wound up in the periphery of the shot.
posted by Heipel at
1:52 PM
4 Comments:
Oh wow, how nice. I like the lighting very much. Not too bright. Not too dark but it gets the audience's attention to your face still.
And you are 46? Really? I'd love to look gorgeous like that when I turn that age.
woo hoo!
You could title it "Crispin Glover Sneaks Up on The Invisible Man During a Moment of Vanity".
iggy pop!
lovely photo.
hate bananas.
I like it not only for the textures and colours, but also for the volumes and lines.
I like the radiating curves of the sun-like light at the top abutting on the strict rectangles of the mirror-frame and the photo-frame iself.
I like the way the light's radiating circular presence -- echoed in the oval shape of your head -- is cut off, just as you are.
I like the "overlying yet receding" aspect of the mirror-world-plane as against the wall-world-plane.
I love the irregular carved line of the dark upright totem-like central volume -- aligning with the frame, yet gnawing away at the oneness of the wall-reflection, and somehow standing in for you as well -- because it is a dark identity with your hair, but also because we don't know what to make of it.
And I like the way the growing (or shrinking, depending on how you look at it) circles of lamplight are mirrored by the growing (or shrinking) ovals of yourself: from haircap, to face, to formed fingers.
It's an intriguing, simple yet complex photo. I like it a lot.
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