Photography Friday: Taking Self Portraits
Friday, February 27th, 2009Hi everyone, Monique (monsu) here with this week’s Photography Friday!
Most scrappers love taking photos! We consider ourselves to be the family historians and want to make sure we always have plenty of material to scrap with! But most of us also love the safety and anonymity of being behind the camera! I must confess I do too, although on most trips I will ask my husband to take at least one photo of me, if only to proof that I was actually there too! As he is not the most talented or motivated photographer (and I am not too confident about any image of me, LOL), I seldom like the pictures he takes of me enough to scrap with them!
But, as Cyndi wrote a few weeks ago in this What Matters Monday Post, you ARE part of you family and your family history and you SHOULD include yourself in your layouts!
You could of course choose to have your portrait professionally done, but my solution is: TAKE SELF PORTRAITS! The good thing is, you can take as many as you like, until you have one you can be happy with! I do have a tripod and a self timer on my camera myself, but I’ve mainly used mirrors and windows to do these self portraits! You can even hide behind the camera if you feel you need to! Or you can focus on part of you, and leave the rest slightly blurry!
So this week my challenge for you is: Be brave, find a well lit mirror in your house, make sure you’re on your own and try to take some photos of yourself! You will not receive any points from me, but your family will love seeing pages about YOU in the family album!
Here are a few examples of self portraits I’ve taken in the past: (How brave am I, showing these to the world!)
Hope you’ll have some fun! Can’t wait to see your images in the Gallery!
