SELF PORTRAITS FINAL

Simply goofy 

Part of her was always hidden.  Eyes are the gateway to the soul. It was symbolic of being serious deep down. 

The camera is balanced on my head this isn't levitation. Shows concentration and a little bit of oddity.

B&W- Railroad Tracks

Smirking a little in my favorite place and I wanted to make a face that was open for interpretation. Mysterious. 

Train tracks because it symbolizes rebelliousness and the hood is on to symbolize anonymous. When I am outside and exploring I am no longer important. 

Lady Bug

Focussing on the little things makes all the difference. Learn to love the ordinary and everything in life will suddenly become extraordinary.

Laying Down- Cyanotype

Dreaming. I have always been a dreamer. When you lay down and fall asleep everything else becomes unimportant. 

Eye and Leaf

See things through a new perspective. Don't limit yourself to just normal things, go outside and experience.

Multiple Textures 

Puzzle pieces and complex texture symbolizes that deep down I am more complicated than I seem and that there is always more to a person than what meets the eye. 

Barbed Wire Fences

Symbolic of life as well as people. Once you get past the bad things there is always beauty on the other side even if it might not look like it. People are more than their mistakes.

Intentional Blur of hair RUNNING

Happily running away from the school and from the life I have led. Not afraid of change and picking up everything and going.

Sabattier Effect

Looks like part of me is part of a different world and the other part is real. Wishing I could be a part of something else, but know where my place is. Also part of me is always blocked off/ hidden

Focussing on the tree in the background and me being up close plays a trick on the mind so its sort of like a mind game. Plus, it makes people wonder. Why is she looking at that tree?

Cloning

I have a girly, normal, and sporty side.

Blocked off. My hair is curled and I have a showy outfit on to symbolize on the outside my life is put together from what it looks like 

I don't like the spotlight, I would rather be somewhere else. I don't like flashy attention 

The color red: With a level head I try to mask my fear of embarrassement and being so angry in front of other people that I might lose it. 

Reflection

Little reflection but you can't really see the bigger picture. Only my face and hands. Also symbolizes that I can work with anything including a car reflection. 

Shadow

Stand tall even when you aren't feeling tall. Shadows are anything you make of them because you can't see any facial features. I like to be black, anonymous. 

Happy

I'm truly happy when I am one with nature and sort of hidden. Not in the spotlight and not begging for attention. 

CONCLUSION and FINAL QUESTION: Through taking photo this year, I have learned so much more about the way I see things. It has taken time, and will continue to take time, to see the world in a different light as well as seeing photography in a different light(literally and figuratively). My best work was probably my rule of thirds pictures because there is so much variety and they are more creative than the others. Also, my self portrait really forced me to think of photos as messages and not just something to look at. My favorite processes are the sabattier, clones, and macro. They are each unique in their own way and they brought out my creative side more than the others did. I learned that I often get so consumed with my friends, social media, and other distractions life brings and I fail to look around me and notice the beauty. I have also learned I am a lot more creative than I put myself out to be. It was challenging to try to get my brain to think of really creative and unoriginal pictures, but once I got going it became easier and easier. It was difficult to remember to take pictures as well, because I wasn't used to taking too many until this class.

Clones

Multiple Exposure

Flowers