{"id":99038,"date":"2018-06-26T20:14:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T03:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=99038"},"modified":"2018-06-26T20:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T03:14:06","slug":"in-praise-of-the-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/in-praise-of-the-selfie\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of the Selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selfies are probably one of the best types of photos we can make. Why? Because as photographers, we often take so many photos of others, but we rarely have any photos of ourselves!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Selfies are great because often we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything else to photograph. I felt this when living in East Lansing, Michigan, when there was practically nobody walking the streets.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Your the best subject matter. You’re always there. You don’t need to worry about offending anyone else, or worry about how to pose the other person. You can control yourself, 100%!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Also with selfies, you can have fun and be creative. Shoot your shadow, reflection, or your own face! The more you shoot yourself, the more comfortable you’ll be of your own self image. You’ll also be able to memento mori: remember that you’ll die, so track your progress in aging through your photos, like Lee Friedlander and his selfies<\/a>, you see him from a young man to an older man.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

But isn’t shooting selfies vain, bad, self-centered and evil? Of course not. If others judge you for shooting selfies, perhaps they’re not comfortable with their own self image, or have some sort of other insecurities.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\n

Shoot more selfies today!<\/p>\n

\"Processed <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"eric <\/a> <\/div>
\"eric <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Panasonic <\/a>
Panasonic G9 selfie. Tokyo, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Tokyo Hotel Selfie, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Kyoto <\/a>
Kyoto shadow and orange selfie. 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Yellow <\/a>
Yellow and red selfie abstract. Osaka, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie with Lumix LX100 and GoPro mounted. Osaka, 2018 <\/div> <\/div>
\"ERIC <\/a>
ERIC KIM SELFIE x RICOH GR II x ERIC KIM NECK STRAP <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Osaka selfie, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Honor <\/a> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie shadow with RICOH GR II x ERIC KIM NECK STRAP, Osaka 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cindy <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Shadow <\/a>
Shadow selfie, small box. Uji, 2018 <\/div> <\/div>
\"-1 <\/a>
-1 exposure compensation selfie on RICOH GR II <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Shadow <\/a>
Shadow selfie and shadows. Uji, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Walking <\/a>
Walking selfie with RICOH GR II. Boston, 2018 <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie with RICOH GR II x ERIC KIM STRAP. Boston, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Shadow <\/a>
Shadow selfie. Orange County, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cindy, <\/a>
Cindy, selfie shadow. Boston, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie and candles. London, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Shadow <\/a>
Shadow selfie. Boston, 2018 <\/div> <\/div>
\"London <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Eric <\/a>
Eric Kim selfie Ricoh GR II x ERIC KIM NECK STRAP <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Foggy <\/a>
Foggy out of focus selfie in London bathroom, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie and Cindy. Tokyo, 2017 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Red <\/a>
Red selfie. Tokyo, 2017 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sunset <\/a> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie and yellow truck. London, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Red <\/a>
Red and Green shadows selfie. Playground in Lisbon park, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"E. <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cyclops <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Family <\/a>
Family shadow selfie. Lisbon, 2018 <\/div> <\/div>
\"Walking <\/a>
Walking selfie and globe shadow. Lisbon, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Shadow <\/a>
Shadow selfie. Lisbon, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pink <\/a>
Pink wall selfie. Lisbon, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie of me and my mom. Lisbon, 2018 <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie. <\/a>
Selfie. Lisbon, 2018 <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie and curved script. Lisbon, 2018 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie with x over my head. Istanbul, 2013 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Question <\/a>
Question mark in red, selfie shadow. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie with Cindy in mirror, marseille <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie with shadows. Berkeley, 2013 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Selfie <\/a>
Selfie with Cindy in mirror with flash. Marseille, 2017, shot on Program mode, Ricoh gr ii <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selfies are probably one of the best types of photos we can make. Why? Because as photographers, we often take so many photos of others, but we rarely have any photos of ourselves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/eric-kim-street-photography-tokyo-2018-1000260-scaled.jpg?fit=3712%2C2480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99045,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99038\/revisions\/99045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}