A selfie is a photograph taken of the person who took it. It is generally shaped by technology and posted on social media. It is the modern equivalent of the self portrait and the name originates as a shortening of that.
Dictionary definition:
selfie
ˈsɛlfi/
noun
informal
This is the first known selfie taken by Robert Cornellius:
Dictionary definition:
selfie
ˈsɛlfi/
noun
informal
- A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media.
This is the first known selfie taken by Robert Cornellius:
The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process in the history of photography. Named after the inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre and creating one is a long complex process, a daguerrotype was the positive and the negative.
This was the first time the public could take pictures, they were up for private use everywhere except in England where you had to pay a fee it was mind blowing to those who had no clue about it before known as the mirror with a memory.
Vivien Maier: Vivian Maier was an unusual person. She lived a double life between nannying and photography. Only after her was her artwork found and appreciated. She worked mainly in black and white and used many things such as her reflections and shadows. She composed her images very effectively and she used a blur sometimes in her backgrounds.
Ilse Bing: Ilse Bing used reflections and shadows like Vivien Maier, sometimes the shadows aren't as obvious as in Vivien Maier's though once again the composition is always very important in her photos.
Lee Friedlander: Lee Friedlander uses dark and blurred imagery to show a darker side of life, he composes his photographs very carefully.
This is my least favourite picture because my hair looks strange and my shadow doesn't look like me and also you can see the lens cap and its swinging in the picture and the shadow and it looks weird. It also had a date in the bottom right corner and when I edited it out and you can kinda see it, I tried to edit the picture to make it better.
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These are two of my drafts of what I want to do with my final Selfie piece, I used my least favourite of the images and put some circles of magazine cutouts and overall I think it looks alright but it has room for improvement.
Evaluation
WWW: I think that the pictures that I've taken for this task have gone quite well
EBI: I would like to have had more good photos
WWW: I think that the pictures that I've taken for this task have gone quite well
EBI: I would like to have had more good photos
These are the selfies that I have chosen to use in my photography book, I think overall these are some nice images and you can see my progress over time and I am a lot happier with the more recent selfies than I am with the older one.