Self Portrait
It was going to be a stack of teacups in front of a window. I don't experience personal conflict very often, so when it happens--like it did for my week 6 image--it's hard to know what to do. I designed an image, worked on it for a couple of hours and ended with a viable product. The only problem was...it didn't reflect what I want my style to be. It's a technically good image, creative a bit, and actually looks like I imagined it to look in the end. But as it came together and I saw the final image, I felt...nothing. No emotion, no satisfaction. I felt empty about it but I published it anyway. I wrote a blurb about the concept and the series to which it was going to belong and set it loose into cyberspace. Thirty minutes later I couldn't take the weight off my mind and took it down.
When I started taking photography seriously eight years ago I took images like everyone else around me because that's all I knew how to do. I designed and posted images that were aesthetically beautiful and yet meant nothing personal to me.
Those days are done. I choose to be only me.
So instead this is what I want the series to feel like. At least two more images to come!
Behind the Scenes
Having a new baby means shooting outside in the cold is out of the question, so I've had to get creative to...well, be creative. I keep my tripod, remote trigger and everything else in the empty spare room in the basement and shoot images of myself near the wall. Then I put it together with images of locations I find around town. This is actually the same field where I photographed Oblivion earlier this winter, just taken at a different time of day, and that's the same basket I used in week 5's image, Arrival. I still have that red fabric burning a hole in my brain for another day. :)
What will your mind see today?
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So instead this is what I want the series to feel like. At least two more images to come!
Behind the Scenes
Having a new baby means shooting outside in the cold is out of the question, so I've had to get creative to...well, be creative. I keep my tripod, remote trigger and everything else in the empty spare room in the basement and shoot images of myself near the wall. Then I put it together with images of locations I find around town. This is actually the same field where I photographed Oblivion earlier this winter, just taken at a different time of day, and that's the same basket I used in week 5's image, Arrival. I still have that red fabric burning a hole in my brain for another day. :)
What will your mind see today?
facebook.com/wendyshootsit
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