Self Portrait

Self Portrait
By Marina Tejada

My self portrait was meant more to expose the silly side of me. Perhaps the expressions I chose for my poses were not exactly what would be normally expected of me. I tend to feel that I am always trying to look a certain way or behave a certain way because it is the correct thing or responsible thing to do, but having this opportunity to express and portray myself as I feel when I am not worried about what anybody else thinks made it fun. It was a little tricky to accomplish getting the right exposures, but I feel that I still accomplished getting the results I wanted.
I chose to expose myself in my portraits to show what I feel is my creative side. I created a frame within a frame. My aperture was set on 1.7 and I used a shutter speed of 30. It was a bit difficult to provide the right lighting since I was typically taking my pictures in the evening without any natural lighting. I also chose to shrink my pictures so that I could create a thick black frame around the exposure by exposing the paper to light. With this project I figured why not use the typical props that one would have for their portraits, but instead use them unconventionally. I set up an empty picture frame at the end posts of my bed with some fishing line. Then I began to pose within it. I thought of exposing only what was captured within the frame itself and blur out the rest of the surrounding areas around the frame so that I would not show the rest of my body, but then was convinced that this would exclude the creativity of the subject matter.
Portraits freeze time and perhaps manipulate a person to pose with a stare directly into the camera. My portraits allowed me to not only come out of the “frame”, but also out of my shell. I like to have fun and I could show this side with my portrait project. This is me!




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