{"id":136,"date":"2020-03-07T22:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/identityandplace\/?p=136"},"modified":"2020-03-07T22:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T22:50:57","slug":"exercise-1-constructing-a-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/OCA\/identityandplace\/2020\/03\/07\/exercise-1-constructing-a-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise 1: Constructing a Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u25cf If you have a social media profile picture, write a paragraph describing the \u2018you\u2019 it portrays. What aspects of yourself remain hidden? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This the picture I’m currently using as my Profile picture on FaceBook. I really don’t know what it says about me to be honest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m a woman of a certain age, I’m very pale, I wear glasses, I’m not smiling, my hair’s a bit of a mess and it’s not a particularly good photo taken with a phone app that blurs the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might ask what others think?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf If you were to construct a more \u2018accurate\u2019 portrait of yourself, including various aspects of who you are, what would you choose to include? How might you visualise these things? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t like to smile in photos because having suffered from a condition call ‘Bells palsy’ many years ago, whilst I was pregnant, I have a wonky smile which I don’t like in photos. Of course someone who doesn’t know me, wouldn’t know that and those that do, probably wouldn’t notice because they know how I smile! Does this make me look grumpy? Perhaps I am!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To try and construct a more accurate portrait, I think it would have to include so many things, I work for the NHS as Quality Manager, have been married, divorced and married again, I have 3 children, 7 step-children, 8 grandchildren and am passionate about photography, motorhoming and bullet journalling. I am a creative introvert who lives a lot of her life in her head. I am doing a degree in photography because I want to prove to myself that I am intelligent and can create good art. I use my art to express my ideas an opinions because I’m not confident enough to express them myself publicly. How on earth can I depict all of that in one image?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having learnt in the last course that everything in an image matters, I’m definitely going to have think about this and explore a few ideas before creating my new image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf Try creating a new, more honest, self-portrait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

will add my new image here when I’ve created it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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