Forum: Photography


Subject: Self Portraits ... some observations

MGD opened this issue on Apr 16, 2004 ยท 4 posts


MGD posted Sat, 17 April 2004 at 5:09 PM

pictures, pictures, we want to laugh WITH YOU NOT AT YOU, > wink, wink! Yes, that's very true. However this time it's not just that the pictures were funny/not funny. In fact, I couldn't get the camera's eye to see the same scene as in my mind's eye. In another sense, the actual level of artistic control did not reach the expected level of artistic control. (That's accountant speak for, "Buddy, you don't have enough money in the register drawer") OTOH, this attempt may inspire me to join a health club ... again ... and even use it. LOL > That's why I don't do self portraits. Something about a > law forbidding scaring little children..... You know, I may have met you at an several years ago at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival. I'm thinking of a gentleman who garbed and woded (blue pigment on face/arms) to resemble a Pict. He was also carrying a spear/pike with a severed head (foam rubber, hair, ...) mounted on the end. He told me that when he saw little kids who were frightened, he would calm them and let them see realize it was just a model. At that point he would say, "This one's a fake. They made me leave the real ones in the car!" MGD