Self Portraits

[Laurent L]

Kind of scary yes, why do we forget to smile while making self portraits ? Are large camera users too serious and stiff ? ^@^

[stradibarrius]

Maybe we are concentrating so hard???? When I smile I always look like it is fake.

[r.e.]

X-mas vacations, i'm alone stucked in my village in the east of France trapped by snow, time to make a silly selfportrait.



Linhof Color
Tele arton 240mm
Self Timer Agfa Fix (and focus point marked in the snow)
Delta 100 4x5 developped in my jobo (ilford HC 1+31)
Printed with a PRIOX (french made 4x5 enlarger) on Fomabrom Variant 112FB


Without the camera (my beloved first reflex) I would have looked like a hobbo in the snow... ^@^

Laurent,

Cette photo me rappelle Peter Ustinov. Je l'aime.

It's one of the few photographs that I've seen of a photographer that is whimsical and doesn't come off as an overly serious, if not overbearing, cliché.

[Greg Lockrey]

Here is one I did a half of a life time ago....

[Steve M Hostetter]

4x5 sinar p on fuji instant film

[Frank Petronio]

Steve, you look like Stephen King, only in good shape. Remind me never to get you mad, or to draft you for my large format football team.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Frank, funny you should mention Stephen King .. In my youth I've had ppl follow me out of stores telling me I look like John Travolta..

[Allen in Montreal]

My humble self-portrait. This was the most difficult assignment I had in school. Thought I would interject a little humor into it.

Jeff,
A very, very pretty young female friend of mine was assigned to shoot a portfolio of nude self portraits by her university prof. This was for her graduating portfolio submission.
I told her to report the prof.

Instead, she shot 12 pictures of herself, exposing a bare ankle only, an elbow only, etc etc.
She never revealed anything even close to an intimate view. Rather brilliant I thought.
She got a very good grade on the project.

[Brian Ellis]

How many self portraits and in what format??

I think I have a self portrait with every camera I've used. Maybe one or two cameras slipped through the net.

So do you want LF self portraits or any format

Forum rules require that photographs be large format. Not a rule I agree with - seems kind of silly when it comes to sharing photographs (as opposed to discussion) on a low-res device like a computer monitor but that's the rule, at least as I recall it.

[photobymike]

Not really a portrait ... my dive partner took my picture with a Nikonos just after a great dive. Its the best and only picture of me.