Day 540 of 365 More. Don’t I look so pretty? Ok, maybe not. I bought a vanity, to use in one of my Tarot card shoots that is coming up. I was kind of wondering what I would do with it after its over though. But I kind of like it. I may just leave…
Day 502 of 365 More. One of the things I always wanted to use 365 for was experimenting. Sometimes I come up with little camera tricks that I don’t really want to bother with fiddling with during an actual shoot, so why not try them on myself. Only I haven’t been doing them much lately,…
Day 425 of 365 More. Well, there you go. 425 days. That’s how long it took for me to resort to just totally not thinking about it and taking a completly lame shot at the last minute. Only it wasn’t really the last minute. It was 11:58. And at least I didn’t resort to using…
Day 377 of 365 More. Mirror mirror on the wall Tell me mirror what is wrong? Can it be my De La Clothes Or is it just my De La Soul What I do ain’t make believe People say I sit and try But when it comes to being De La It’s just me myself…
Note: Several people had issues with the original version of this card as it wasn’t obvious enough that she was looking in a mirror. I understood the issue but was resistant because i really don’t want the background elements of any card to overpower the main image. Of course in this one, the mirror is part of the main image. But still I didn’t want to distract from the image. So I ended up compromising by trying to add a very simple stylized mirror frame to the image. I look forward to feedback.
In the Tarot, there are opposing suits. Swords Staffs and Cups Coins. I wanted to illustrate that within my set, and I thought the three’s would be a good place to do that. Every three will be based upon the concept of reflections, with the model being garbed and styled in the opposing suit, while they are reflected in a mirror (or some other reflective surface) with their true nature.
I wasn’t sure about this idea at first, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
In the Tarot, there are opposing suits. Swords Staffs and Cups Coins. I wanted to illustrate that within my set, and I thought the three’s would be a good place to do that. Every three will be based upon the concept of reflections, with the model being garbed and styled in the opposing suit, while they are reflected in a mirror (or some other reflective surface) with their true nature.
This one stars Laurie. More shots of her coming later.
EDIT: Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m wondering if I should drop the left bar altogether and just let people wonder if it’s a mirror or two different girls. Opinions?
Day 246 of 365 days. I don’t have a whole lot to say about today. I spent the entire day working on my website. Hopefully I’ll be done in another couple of days. I need to buy some webspace to host it on. Which is more money that I don’t really feel like spending, but…
Day 153 of 365 days. Another day, another job interview. Sometimes I feel like I work harder when I’m not working than I do when I am. It went ok, I guess, but at the end of the day, its just another contract job, and if I get it and take it, I’ll just be…
Day 111 of 365 days. So far, I had more or less gone out of my way to not really repeat ideas for the entire year. But I got to thinking last night that really, the vast majority of my self-portraits (and everyone else in the world’s portraits for that matter) amount to "here’s a…
Day 97 of 365 days. Another day where I didn’t really have a strong idea in mind and decided to just go down to the studio and see what struck me. I’m actually beginning to kind of like those kinds of shots. I go downstairs and look around and see if I get any bolts…
Day 46 of 365 days. I actually had a half baked idea of doing this a couple weeks ago, but I never really knew where to go with it. Then randomly, sadandbeautiful went and made her own version last week which impressed me quite a bit and made me want to make sure that I…
Day 43 of 365 days. And speaking of not knowing how to use the new camera… Took the 400D to my friend Gina’s yoga studio to take some pictures of her doing pregnancy yoga for her (and give me the chance to become more familiar with it). Took a whole bunch (including all of the…
Day 15 of 365 days. "Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are…" -Meat Loaf Didn’t have that many super ideas for today as it was kind of a lazy Saturday. Initially I was going to take a picture of me replastering my attic, but I never got around to going…
Day 11 of 365 days. Memoirs of an Invisible Mav. One of the nice things about this project is that it has made me start thinking of different ideas that I wouldn’t normally come up with. I actually had a couple random ideas that weren’t so photoshoppy today, but then this one started baking in…
the 3rd picture in my 365 day series. Had this idea early yesterday and almost couldn’t wait to shave in the morning. This is the first shot that wasn’t highly photoshopped (just a little bit of color correction). I’m beginning to wonder how I am going to keep these interesting for a whole year. I’m…