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[Theme] I'd like to see your selfies!
« on: August 05, 2015, 20:40:01 »
Don't you think a selfie-thread is missing in this forum?  ;)
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Bjørn Rørslett

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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2015, 20:47:41 »
Plenty of time to do selfies when you are hospitalised ...

(unfortunately, the colours in this photo won't survive web treatment)



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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2015, 20:56:25 »
Show-off of me and my new (to me) Df with a chrome 45/2.8 AI-p
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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2015, 21:47:32 »
One of my first selfies (There are older ones but they need to be digitalized)-  Summer 1981 (excuse for the bad scan)

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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2015, 22:39:34 »
We were all younger then ...

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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2015, 23:19:11 »
Shot late at night in an underground heavy metal bar in Austin, Texas.



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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2015, 23:38:17 »
How many do you want 8)

Here's some taken in Spain over the years, used to go there a few times a year.

D3s and 16/3.5 fish, close to our camp for the night


D3s and 16/3.5 fish, while taking a break of shooting vultures in the bright sunlight


Trying to make a creepy tunnel selfie with the iPhone while drunk ;)


D3s with 50/1.2 in a winery during wine tasting:
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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2015, 23:44:06 »
The "creepy tunnel" selfie is the spitting image of you, JA :D

Apparently you go to some extreme places.

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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2015, 23:47:01 »
Must be tunnel vision there...

Anthony

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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2015, 23:56:28 »
What's a selfie?

Is it just a self-portrait?

Self portraits have been around for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years.

The word "selfie" is new in terms of language.

It arose when it became viable to hold the camera, directly or on a device such as a selfie stick, and take a usable self portrait.  Such photos are quite different from the traditional self portrait taken with a mirror or a timer.  They have an immediacy and informality which makes them a specific art form.

It is a useful word which conveys a specific type of photograph.

So let's use the word for that type of photography, and not dilute it by amalgamating it with the traditional self-portrait.
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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2015, 00:02:30 »
Lot of words Anthony but no selfie or self portrait ;D ;) :P
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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2015, 00:11:04 »
Using the one from my AW-1 review:

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stenrasmussen

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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2015, 00:12:42 »
Although I agree with Anthony I say here's mine:

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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2015, 00:47:03 »
Lot of words Anthony but no selfie or self portrait ;D ;) :P

Showing all the distortion of which a Canon S90 is capable.

NB, I am not the blonde person.
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Re: I'd like to see your selfies!
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2015, 00:51:03 »
Yes, I used my selfie stick!
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