Self Portraiture

                                        Self portrait - Lace

What do you do when you get the urge to experiment with an idea and you have no model at your disposal: a Self Portrait!

Being the model and the person who takes the photograph at the same time is the most bizarre form of expression, but this is as intimate and care free as it gets, as no-one is judging you during the process. So you can act how you please, in the knowledge that you will erase what is not right in the end.

I suppose that is a photographer's dream to have such a close relationship with the person you are photographing that they give themselves fully and you, as a photographer can experiment without fear.

I think it is especially true with portraiture where you must project something from the person

The best portraits for me are the ones where you sense the subject has let their guard down and given a bit of their essence