Week 1

I've never blogged before, so excuse me if this come up as an impossible to understand bunch of phrases!

I've been struggling to find myself again after some life issues happened, and I was leaving photography a bit behind. So when I came across this wonderfull facebook group that featured some of my most admired photographers encouraging everybody to join in a massive collaboration 52 themed-weeks challenge - self-portrait edition-, I just sobered up. I have very low expectations on myself, but I'm willing to try to stick to it for the whole year. Feel free to follow, or even join the project, on these links:
Let's Get Creative 2014 Facebook page
Let's Get Creative 2014 Flickr group page

As to the matter, first week theme was 'Camera'.

     The first thing that popped  into my head was that I didn't want to do a simple selfie holding my camera, maybe because I've done that way too many times before. So I started to move the idea around on my head trying to come up with something and then I remembered some conversations I had time back then when I was starting to be into photography.

     I remembered all these people that told me how amazing my photos were just to point out next second that obviously they had to be good as I had an 'expensive' camera. Even back then, when I was only playing around, when I didn't plan beforehand, when I didn't spend day trying to work out a concept, it bothered me.

     The camera is probably not even the most important part of photography (at least that how I see it). The person behind the camera, the person in front of the camera, the process before you press the shutter, the post-process afterwards.
    Chosing the location, the wardrobe, the make up, the props...
Working with the available light you have, sometimes fighting against the clock to get it done before the sun sets or rises...
Chosing the RIGHT photo, the one that would made the whole set worth it, maybe to go through 300 photos until you find the ONE ( that would also need to go through photoshop to, hopefully, end up being the piece you first imaged)

Because I'm mainly a self-portratist I tried to focused myself on the relationship of the photographer with his/her camera: The visión behind the machine.

    So, this is my attempt at conveying that feeling.
I found myself really rusty, feeling uncomfortable in front of the camera and not knowing quite what to do. But in the end the result was acceptable!
And I was really pleased at how the shutter-eye turned out :)

' The tool is not the only thing that matters'