When I taught photography part-time at a local community college, one of the first assignments I dished out to my students was to have them photograph a self-portrait of themselves without actually showing themselves. Think about it and give it a try. How would you show who or what you are without showing your physical self?
If it's not a picture of yourself, it's no longer a self portrait. That assignment doesn't make sense
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
If the purpose of the lesson was to get people to think outside the box then I'd say it was a success. It might take a day or two to accomplish something worth showing and to analyze the concept. It does make sense in the same way the sound of one hand clapping does.
“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
No, it doesn't make sense, at all. If he said, take a picture of yourself, without your face in it, it'd be more along the lines.
But saying take a self portrait without it having a self portrait is circular argumentation, and doesn't make any sense.
It should be re-worded is all.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
chasrich wrote: Hey now - did you take this photo? Your grade is in the balance you know...
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
OK, let's think outside the box. Two facts about me - I am half Irish and I like to knit. Could this sample of an Irish knitting pattern be a portriat of who I am without showing myself?
digishutterbug wrote: OK, let's think outside the box. Two facts about me - I am half Irish and I like to knit. Could this sample of an Irish knitting pattern be a portriat of who I am without showing myself?
By Jove. I think you got it. The instructor was not referring to your physical being, nut to the fabric of your being. Who you are, not what to look like.
Now THAT is truly thinking "outside the box". Congratulations.
I was thinking of a montage of sorts or perhaps a pile of symbols like military medals, a wedding ring, a few children's toys, a camera, anything else symbolizing my past present or future.
“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
digishutterbug wrote: OK, let's think outside the box. Two facts about me - I am half Irish and I like to knit. Could this sample of an Irish knitting pattern be a portriat of who I am without showing myself?
By Jove. I think you got it. The instructor was not referring to your physical being, nut to the fabric of your being. Who you are, not what to look like.
Now THAT is truly thinking "outside the box". Congratulations.
Then don't call it a self portrait
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
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I was thinking of a montage of sorts or perhaps a pile of symbols like military medals, a wedding ring, a few children's toys, a camera, anything else symbolizing my past present or future. 
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