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One of the few portraits of myself that I immediately liked \u2014 more than the background and the starkness of the B&W processing, what draws me to this image is the pose \u2014 it\u2019s as if I am hovering in decision. There\u2019s an implied narrative here, even if shrouded in mystery. Not quite a self-portrait but I was involved in the setting it up of this, and the other photos in the sequence.<\/p>\n
Photo by my friend,\u00a0Clayton<\/a>. He used an 85mm lens<\/a>. As I mentioned in this article on improving your portrait photography<\/a>, is that I have little time for photographers who say they are more comfortable behind the camera than in front of it. That may well be, but it isn’t endearing, and definitely doesn’t help your subject … or the person photographing you. It’s one of those “suck it up, buttercup” moments. Stop whining and help the person photographing you, by giving some of yourself and your personality. I feel that as a photographer, you have an obligation not to be self-indulgent with that nonsense. Participate, and you may well surprise yourself with good portraits of yourself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not quite a self-portrait One of the few portraits of myself that I immediately liked \u2014 more than the background and the starkness of the B&W processing, what draws me to this image is the pose \u2014 it\u2019s as if I am hovering in decision. There\u2019s an implied narrative here, even if shrouded in mystery. Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[818,636],"yst_prominent_words":[13076,13104,1227,1810,1020,1554,1058,1997,13077,13078],"class_list":{"0":"post-49282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-essays-discussions","8":"tag-85mm-portraits","9":"tag-available-light-portraits","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49282"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49691,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282\/revisions\/49691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49282"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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