121 — Make Better Self Portraits

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Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #121 offers up 6 tips on how to make better self portraits in photography. Making a self portrait, sometimes known as an autoportrait has a long history in photography and many past and modern photography Masters (Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe and the extremely prolific self portraitist Cindy Sherman for example) have produced fabulous self portraits. Please know in advance that we are not referring to ‘selfies’…which I rant on about for a little bit in this podcast. We are referring to self-portraits which require deliberate framing and thinking about the light, environment etc.

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Angst — Self portrait by Marko Kulik — 2000

Self Portrait as a Parisian by Marko and Carmy — 2009

Self Portrait as a Dock Worker by Marko and Carmy — 2013

Links /resources mentioned in this podcast:
Styrofoam heads on Google (helps with focusing the camera)
Cindy Sherman’a 2012 exhibition at MoMA

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