Thedraperyfalls
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Hi all,
was reading this and thought it was very interesting. Here's an excerpt:
"In the last three years, Ive taken over 200,000 photos.
Most of these are pictures of my family. My kids, my husband, parents, etc.
I just went back and looked at all of them. Guess how many of these photos have me in them?
Eleven.
I am not making this up.
Out of the hundreds of thousands of photos we have of our family from the last three years, my face is in eleven of them. Eleven.
Ive learned that many photographers are like me; they prefer to stay behind the camera.
For me, the biggest reason is that I have a hard time seeing myself in a picture.
When I look at a photo, all I can see is the bulges of fat or the imperfections in my features.
I see the blemishes on my face. My too-big nose. My belly. My sunken eyes. Bushy eyebrows.
I can go on and on. I dont see the happy mom or the loving wife, I just see a flawed human being."
That's true isn't it?
We shoot plenty of images of family and friends, and in this particular community, plenty of strangers too.
But how many of ourselves, and I'm not talking about portraits with us having a nice camera obscuring half of our face.
The articles then talks about reasons to take more photos of yourself, for the sake of posterity, education and empathy, among others.
It got me thinking, and hence I just wanted to share it.
Article HERE
was reading this and thought it was very interesting. Here's an excerpt:
"In the last three years, Ive taken over 200,000 photos.
Most of these are pictures of my family. My kids, my husband, parents, etc.
I just went back and looked at all of them. Guess how many of these photos have me in them?
Eleven.
I am not making this up.
Out of the hundreds of thousands of photos we have of our family from the last three years, my face is in eleven of them. Eleven.
Ive learned that many photographers are like me; they prefer to stay behind the camera.
For me, the biggest reason is that I have a hard time seeing myself in a picture.
When I look at a photo, all I can see is the bulges of fat or the imperfections in my features.
I see the blemishes on my face. My too-big nose. My belly. My sunken eyes. Bushy eyebrows.
I can go on and on. I dont see the happy mom or the loving wife, I just see a flawed human being."
That's true isn't it?
We shoot plenty of images of family and friends, and in this particular community, plenty of strangers too.
But how many of ourselves, and I'm not talking about portraits with us having a nice camera obscuring half of our face.
The articles then talks about reasons to take more photos of yourself, for the sake of posterity, education and empathy, among others.
It got me thinking, and hence I just wanted to share it.
Article HERE
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