Project 52: Self-Portraits: Love

By
Lynda Giddens
– Mon February 14, 2011Posted in: P52: Self Portraits, Photography

Happy Valentine’s Day! Everywhere you look this week there’s candy, hearts, pink and red!

Join in Project 52 Self Portraits!This week’s Project 52 suggested Self-Portrait theme is Love. Every Monday, Pepper and I are hosting a self-portrait link-up. It hasn’t received a lot of attention so far, but we really hope we’ll motivate you to get out from behind the camera and capture yourself. What better way to show your love for yourself and preservation of your full family history than to take a self-portrait?

You don’t need to participate in Project 52 or even the weekly theme to link up.

There are only two rules:

  1. You should share a recently taken self-portrait
  2. The link should be the absolute URL of your photo or entry, not a link to your homepage. Links to Flickr pages are fine!

My Efforts This Week

Every week I want to get a photo with my kids, but my fear of setting up the tripod only to have one of them escape from me and knock it over leaves me too paralyzed to even try something other than arm’s length with them.

Instead, I stole their candy hearts and dumped them onto my husband’s work desk into a shape vaguely resembling a heart. I set my focus, exposure and used my remote shutter to fire off a few shots until I got one that didn’t look so terrible.

02-14-11 - Project 52 Love Self Portrait

Focusing for self-portraits seems terribly complicated. Am I missing something? To get my multiple me silly faces portrait, I put a stuffed animal in the chair where I was going to sit to focus. For this shot, I set a bottle on the edge of the desk touching the wall and focused on it. Somehow I doubt autofocus will work with these types of shots. If you have any tips, I would love them!

Since this week’s Love That Shot link-up is also love, I’m entering this photo in their link-up too. It isn’t often I can adhere to others’ themes! Check them out as they’ve recently relaunched their website. I’m hoping to get a membership again soon, especially now that they have new workshops coming out!

Share Yours!

Have you recently taken a self-portrait? If so, add a link to it here! If not, why not challenge yourself to take a self-portrait symbolizing Love and come back here to share it?



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