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Showing posts with label Self Portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self Portrait. Show all posts
88/365: Monday Me
Ugh... Oh no. It's 9pm and I haven't done a self portrait yet. I know, I'll showcase my super clean desk!
It's not readily apparent in this picture, but my desk is extraordinarily tidy at the moment. Usually it has many more piles (which are always somewhat organized. I know what's in them, but no one else would be able to discern a pattern to them) my camera and accessories, half finished sewing projects, etc. It has to stay clean now until we get the house sold. Maybe that necessity will help me turn the tidiness into a habit. Or, maybe not :)
It's not readily apparent in this picture, but my desk is extraordinarily tidy at the moment. Usually it has many more piles (which are always somewhat organized. I know what's in them, but no one else would be able to discern a pattern to them) my camera and accessories, half finished sewing projects, etc. It has to stay clean now until we get the house sold. Maybe that necessity will help me turn the tidiness into a habit. Or, maybe not :)
82/365: Monday Me
My most common view at the moment. Little one is gaining weight wonderfully, and spends the corresponding amount of time eating!
67/365: Monday Me
This morning we went to the "nice" mall downtown to get out of the house. It was blissfully uncrowded and that meant "I" had every opportunity he wanted to push the elevator buttons, which made for a happy kid. As soon as we hit the interior of the mall I noticed people were staring at me. One older man went so far as to stare the entire time we walked towards him from about 20 feet away... I felt like turning and asking him why he was being so rude, but of course I didn't, I just ignored him. I was dressed in what I'm wearing in today's picture and I don't feel like I'm looking all that bad/huge. Maybe there was just a shortage of pregnant people to watch at the mall today.
We didn't find anything we had to have while we were shopping, which is making the tunic that I'm lusting over on the Anthropologie website all that much harder to resist!
We didn't find anything we had to have while we were shopping, which is making the tunic that I'm lusting over on the Anthropologie website all that much harder to resist!
53/365: Monday Me
I used today's self portrait session to attempt some maternity shots. It would be lovely if next week's self portrait includes a baby, rather than a belly!
46/365: Monday Me
Sleep.
Obviously I don't usually sleep at the dining room table... but sometimes lately it feels like I could.
Obviously I don't usually sleep at the dining room table... but sometimes lately it feels like I could.
39/365: Monday Me
Self portraits are proving to be highly educational. If I had to pose a model to get a shot in the same lighting conditions it would have been about 1/4 as difficult! I also think there should be an easy, inexpensive way to be able to choose your focal point with a remote :)
32/365: Monday Me
I'm a little over 35 weeks pregnant now. Definitely feeling it and getting towards that "ready to be done" point. However, I'm not ready for the lack of sleep that newborns bring with them!
25/365: Monday Me
I used to take class 5-6 times per week. This morning, I gave myself "class" (half of barre) in my living room, holding onto the entertainment center, on the carpet, while my kiddo played under my feet... for the first time in months. A 34-week pregnant belly is not extremely graceful, but it felt so good to stretch and really use my feet.
(Ignore the rest if you don't want to hear my whining! I'm just documenting it for myself so that next time I have a bad day I can look back and remember that they do happen every so often.)
After "class" I shimmied myself into non-pregnancy tights and swtiched out into pointe shoes. I was hoping "I" would quietly entertain himself. No such luck. The dogs were constantly underfoot so I confined them in their crate (which met with much whining... in fact, they whined the entire time I was trying to get the shot). "I" seemed to be quietly playing downstairs but eventually it turns out that he
1) pulled half of his toys off of their shelves and randomly dumped them on the floor 2) took the box of leftover pizza out of the fridge, picked off the olives and spread crumbs all over the kitchen floor
... after I cleaned up the downstairs mess and got him a "squeezy yogurt" snack he came upstairs and...
3) left the drippy yogurt container on his window seat cushion 4) pulled out most of his books and toys and artfully arranged them around his room 5) pulled a cord out of his warm window covering...
after I cleaned up the upstairs I deposited him on the couch watching the Leap Frog Letter Factory movie and went to console myself in the shower. I came back to find he had...
6) ripped apart a page in one of our really nice pop up books.
Can I be done single parenting yet???
On a more photography related note... I have added yet another item to the wishlist for our next house. A room large enough to accomplish a picture like this, with good light and no big furniture to contend with! We'll see how close I come to getting that wish granted.
(Ignore the rest if you don't want to hear my whining! I'm just documenting it for myself so that next time I have a bad day I can look back and remember that they do happen every so often.)
After "class" I shimmied myself into non-pregnancy tights and swtiched out into pointe shoes. I was hoping "I" would quietly entertain himself. No such luck. The dogs were constantly underfoot so I confined them in their crate (which met with much whining... in fact, they whined the entire time I was trying to get the shot). "I" seemed to be quietly playing downstairs but eventually it turns out that he
1) pulled half of his toys off of their shelves and randomly dumped them on the floor 2) took the box of leftover pizza out of the fridge, picked off the olives and spread crumbs all over the kitchen floor
... after I cleaned up the downstairs mess and got him a "squeezy yogurt" snack he came upstairs and...
3) left the drippy yogurt container on his window seat cushion 4) pulled out most of his books and toys and artfully arranged them around his room 5) pulled a cord out of his warm window covering...
after I cleaned up the upstairs I deposited him on the couch watching the Leap Frog Letter Factory movie and went to console myself in the shower. I came back to find he had...
6) ripped apart a page in one of our really nice pop up books.
Can I be done single parenting yet???
On a more photography related note... I have added yet another item to the wishlist for our next house. A room large enough to accomplish a picture like this, with good light and no big furniture to contend with! We'll see how close I come to getting that wish granted.
18/365: Monday Me
Isn't it funny how you can start out intending to shoot one thing, but end up with something else and still be happy with the picture? I had intended to get a shot that I could crop to just my eye, but no matter how many times I changed the crop I couldn't find one I was happy with. So, this is what I ended up with.
I recently browsed an article about how it is not always necessary to have the whole face in a shot. You can story tell with only part of the face. It is fun; learning to let your pictures tell a story.
I recently browsed an article about how it is not always necessary to have the whole face in a shot. You can story tell with only part of the face. It is fun; learning to let your pictures tell a story.
11/365: Monday Me
Just me. No makeup (ok- chapstick), no editing (except removal of a couple pregnancy blemishes- love that spot healing tool!), no idea what I was doing.
Oh! I did use a gray card for the first time to meter. Look at this project turning me into a more proficient photographer already :)
Oh! I did use a gray card for the first time to meter. Look at this project turning me into a more proficient photographer already :)
4/365: Monday Me
On Mondays I will post a picture of me. Obviously, they won't always be of my face :) Self portraits aren't easy to accomplish. I hopped up and down off of the bed about 30 times checking exposure and focus... not extremely gracefully I might add.
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