Being a soft and sweet kind of female doesn’t come naturally to me, and I don’t think it even suits me. My type of femininity is strong and dramatic, which I portray on most aspects of my life, from inner workings to how I dress myself, and of course to what kind of self portraits I do as an art form.
Yesterday I purposely took thesevery different kind of images from what I normally do, just to try it out and push my limits a bit. It doesn’t hurt to know how to take different styles of photographs, even if it’s not what I personally like that much or gravitate towards. Every time I take pictures, it’s not just to take that image, but it’s always learning and harnessing my skills for some possible future use.
Sharp angles, hard light, high contrast, dark images, drama and strong poses is what I do, but this time I wanted to do the opposite. Creating light, airy, soft self portraits with light colours, natural makeup and sweet expressions is very far out of my comfort zone, and it was very hard!
Trying to keep my expressions soft and not tilt my head to my go-to chin up, sharp cheekbone, arrogant looking poses was really really hard. The images I got in the end are pretty simple, but they were really hard to do and it took me a lot of tries to get even remotely something I was happy with. Most of the times I ended up looking either dead, with one lazy eye or really fake. I think in the end, I did get something I’m happy with and that portrays my sweeter side somewhat truthfully.
