Photos
Today I did a photo session with a photographer named Gil Benzeevi. He’s an Israeli fellow. We had a lot of fun. My friend, Andre Woods, joined us and was our lighting guy. Being the lighting guy meant holding up a piece of cardboard with tin foil wrapped around it and reflecting the light on me. He was awesome.
Outdoor lighting seems to be the best when a lighting package doesn’t happen to show up in my life and today outdoor shooting was the way to go. It is nice to use natural light. God made the sun very convenient to work with. It rises when it’s scheduled to and sets when it’s scheduled to. I like it when things are simple.
The thing that’s funny to me about photos is that I’m used to seeing myself in a mirror more than anything else and that reflection is a reversed image from how other people see me. So when I look at pictures, it takes me awhile to adjust my thinking about what I look like. I usually think losing 10 pounds is a good idea anytime there’s a camera around.
There’s something about that reversed image thing that gets me thinking, and that can be like a trip down the rabbit hole for me. My self image is not how other people see me. Reflections are such funny things. They’re so not what I think people are seeing. I mean look at the pattern that looking in a mirror sets up in my life.
I see an image of myself that is reversed. So I’m thinking of myself in a reversed sense of self. Then when I look in someone else’s eyes, I’m also looking in small mirrors at tiny little reflections of myself, so now, subconsciously, I’m seeing reflections of myself in other people without realizing it most of the time because of how small their eyes are.
If you’ve never looked up close in a mirror and seen the reflection of yourself in your eyes or looked closely enough in someone else’s eyes to see the reflection of yourself in their eyes it’s a pretty cool thing to do. It’s less risky to look into your own eyes in a mirror than to invade someone’s space if you need to get really close up to see it.
I had a monologue about doing that in my second one-woman show called, “Quest For Serenity”. It was fun to act out the whole thing. It reminded me of how silly I am when I’m attached to what I call my life when I don’t even realize what I’m looking at most of the time. Thank God I have a sense of humor about things.
Blessings!
Laura
LauraCohnMusic.com
http://www.LauraCohnMusic.com
Where Music Meets Artistry
Outdoor lighting seems to be the best when a lighting package doesn’t happen to show up in my life and today outdoor shooting was the way to go. It is nice to use natural light. God made the sun very convenient to work with. It rises when it’s scheduled to and sets when it’s scheduled to. I like it when things are simple.
The thing that’s funny to me about photos is that I’m used to seeing myself in a mirror more than anything else and that reflection is a reversed image from how other people see me. So when I look at pictures, it takes me awhile to adjust my thinking about what I look like. I usually think losing 10 pounds is a good idea anytime there’s a camera around.
There’s something about that reversed image thing that gets me thinking, and that can be like a trip down the rabbit hole for me. My self image is not how other people see me. Reflections are such funny things. They’re so not what I think people are seeing. I mean look at the pattern that looking in a mirror sets up in my life.
I see an image of myself that is reversed. So I’m thinking of myself in a reversed sense of self. Then when I look in someone else’s eyes, I’m also looking in small mirrors at tiny little reflections of myself, so now, subconsciously, I’m seeing reflections of myself in other people without realizing it most of the time because of how small their eyes are.
If you’ve never looked up close in a mirror and seen the reflection of yourself in your eyes or looked closely enough in someone else’s eyes to see the reflection of yourself in their eyes it’s a pretty cool thing to do. It’s less risky to look into your own eyes in a mirror than to invade someone’s space if you need to get really close up to see it.
I had a monologue about doing that in my second one-woman show called, “Quest For Serenity”. It was fun to act out the whole thing. It reminded me of how silly I am when I’m attached to what I call my life when I don’t even realize what I’m looking at most of the time. Thank God I have a sense of humor about things.
Blessings!
Laura
LauraCohnMusic.com
http://www.LauraCohnMusic.com
Where Music Meets Artistry
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