I decided, after much thought & frustration on my part, that I am no longer doing self portrait tuesday & I feel like I need to get my rant out.
I don’t think that you should be able to use photoshop or any image enhancers when the goal of the self portrait is to be truly honest. I understand not being happy with a photo, but that means you need to reshoot the photo or come up with a different scape to get your point across. Not scan in a bunch of different photos, fonts and backgrounds to make-up a photo. When I first started it was all just snapshots, with artistic flare and eye in the photo itself, every week that matched the theme. Now it’s like full scrapbook page layouts & it’s a contest to see who is the most creative without really stretching the photographic artistry of it.
So I am withdrawing, I will check in time and again to see if things get back to true self portrait photography but until then I am not taking part. I think it’s a fantastic concept but too competetive. You should push yourself for the artistry of it,not to be a featured weekly photo.
End of rant, that is my 2cents.
