Continuing on with this month’s self-portrait challenge theme of “glam,” I’m noticing that it is really much more difficult than taking photos of imperfection (last month’s theme). I find that I have to take at least 60 to 80 photos and 99% of them suck.
No matter how much makeup I trowel on it doesn’t seem to really show up in the photos. Perhaps this is due to my mediocre photography skills, old digital camera and unprofessional lighting equipment, I don’t know. Whatever the reason, I could tell that this week’s entry was going to need a powerful lot of Photoshopping.
I’ve been trying to stay away from “glamorous” and stick to the theme of “glam” and as I mentioned the photos I’ve been producing are total crap. At one point I was starting not to care what theme it was, I just wanted to take a photo that was decent. So as I was having a small fit in my studio, I spontaneously yanked the backdrop off the wall, dumped it on my head and sat two feet from the camera just before the auto-timer took the photo. I looked at it and was shocked that it had potential. Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, I decided that one was good enough and stopped taking photos.
Here’s the one photo that wasn’t a loser. It has nothing to do with what I was trying to accomplish that day and I don’t care. It also bears little resemblance to what I actually look like, again, I don’t care. It is pure fiction. I just wanted to produce a successful image that was interesting to look at.
Fic·tion :
An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
