Angled Me

With my series of self-portraits I originally wanted to emulate Alexander Rodchenko’s style of using extreme angles. On a couple of the photos I believe I successfully achieved this, specifically on the one where I am looking at the rearview mirror of my car, the one that is angled from the ground at a seated me and the one where I am laying spread eagle on the grass. For the other two, though they aren’t necessarily using extreme angles, I do believe they are my favorite of the five. This is mainly because I was able to get very good exposures on both.
So because I focused more on experimenting on the style of extreme angles I wasn’t as focused on the emotional meaning behind every photo. But I purposefully didn’t smile in each photo because I hoped it would show the state of mind that I was in while working on the photos. To make a long story short this has been a long, confusing and stressful semester for me, with the workload of my classes, the aftermath of Mr. Hurricane Ike and recently the death of my grandfather and all that goes along with that. So I guess you could say my state of semi emotional numbness came out in the photos I took of myself.
Ultimately I was very happy with results of the prints I chose to develop. All but two of them, the rearview mirror and the one where I am seated, had good exposures. For those two I did 12 seconds of extra burning to parts of the prints in an attempt to bring out more detail. I think overall my favorite print is the one where I am wearing my throwback Astros hat, seated against a brick wall with my hands outstretched towards the camera. I specifically like this picture because I was attempting to achieve a decent depth of field shot to get a different perspective on extreme angles with the hands out of focus and me in focus.