I AM
I AM not
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See also the Flickr group self-portrait without reference to body.
Notes:
I used both the Optio, mostly on the flower macro that I love so much, and the Pentax dSLR for the bigger shots such as the car. My ideas evolved the more photos I took....basically to taking more and more out of the shot.
The 'I AM not' is more of a narrative photo; a poor woman's version of Gregory Creudson. I would loved to have the husband standing at the door on the right and the cat on the bonnet hood (I got some of the latter in a few shots) just to complete that idea of "I am all these material things and relationships and occupations" that we promulgate in daily conversation. You might just be able to see the chocolate bar wrapper on the seat - it would have been fabulous to have that in crystal focus and radiant colour, but I don't know how. The car idea evolved from two other ideas (1) filling the front seat with a pile of artefacts from my daily life, (2) taking photos of the empty chocolate bar wrapper on every I use in the house. However, (1) seemed really time-consuming, so I whittled it down to the wrapper and (2) I did a lot of but most of the pictures were very poor.
I can be quite limited physically in terms of squatting, kneeling, lying etc in order to get a 'not eye level' shot, and the monopod seemed really rigid and unhelpful, so I'm going to have to get that tripod out if I want to do more long exposure, big depth of field shots. As it was I wasted a lot of energy on shaky photos! I also found (with the Pentax) that I got some really odd light effects inside (really red) that I don't know how to correct or how to take mixed lighting conditions shots???
On the other hand, the 'I AM' is abstract and the more I took the more abstract it got...I shone the desk lamp along the computer monitor and took images of the surface and edges where the light caught it. The "I am" is a reference to Jesus' seven cryptic statements in the Gospel according to St John.
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