Journeying through misty mountains and deep forestry, photographer Erinthul takes refuge in capturing her dark and cryptic self-portraits that serve as an invitation into folklore and the arcane wildernesses of Poland.
Visual artist and photographer Felicia Simion found a trip to Iceland and a self-portrait project were exactly what she needed to reconnect with nature and feel alive once again.
Photographer Joe Tobiason has been capturing daily self-portraits with his daughter for two straight years, amassing hundreds of photos that tell a deeply personal story of his family life and show the evolving relationship between a father and his young daughter.
A Brazilian photographer in Norway has captured a rare photo in which two dazzling night sky phenomena, the northern lights and pillars of light, are seen in the sky at the same time.
When I first saw the photograph, I was a bit confused. One was Beatle John Lennon because his name was written in bold, but who was the other similar-looking person?
The Google Doodle for October 25 celebrates the 127th birthday of French author and surrealist photographer Claude Cahun, celebrated for their self-portrait photography that highlighted the fluidity of gender norms and sexuality.
Photographer Anna Isabella Christensen has been working on a series of self-portraits over the last four years but has spent the last several months working specifically in Iceland, capturing dramatic images near the erupting volcano there.
While NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover has been grabbing headlines lately, its Curiosity rover has been on the Red Planet since 2012 and just sent back a gigantic 318-megapixel selfie that depicts it in front of Mont Mercou, a rock outcropping on the surface of Mars.
In her ongoing series Reflections 2, photographer Ziqian Liu shows just how creative you can get when you limit your props and subject matter, and master composition instead. Throughout the series, Liu uses only herself, various plant life, the occasional fruit, and a round mirror to craft images that are at once symbolic and striking.
In a series of photos designed to explore the theme of identity, Peruvian photographer Cecilia Paredes camouflages her body against patterned backdrops to create gorgeous, visually-striking images.
As celebrities and photographers alike self-isolate, magazines have had to find ways to illustrate their articles and covers without resorting to breaking the law. The solution: self-portraits. Naomi Cambell did it with an iPhone, and now Robert Pattinson has shot his own GQ cover and spread using a Nikon DSLR.
We've seen a lot of creative self-portrait ideas come across our inbox over the past several weeks, but none are quite as fun as this "punch portrait" tutorial by photographer and YouTuber Mike Smith.
One of the most impactful types of outdoor portraiture is what you might call the 'epic' selfie: a self-portrait where the landscape photographer becomes a tiny fraction of his or her own composition, giving a sense of scale and awe to an already epic vista.
Our minds are so rarely silent. For those of us with anxiety disorders, the noise is constant. From what we’ll cook for dinner to the specifics of how our lives will end, there’s no shortage of things to worry about. But how does the creative mind function amid all this static?
In drought-stricken Cape Town, we’ve been living with just 50 liters of water per person per day since the beginning of the year. That’s 13.2 gallons. It doesn’t go far when you think about how often you turn on the faucet each day for drinking, cleaning, flushing toilets, showering, washing dishes, and doing laundry.
Photographer Dale Sharpe is a determined guy. It took two rings and two trips to the arctic circle, but he finally got engaged to the one person he loves, capturing the epic moment on camera while the northern lights danced above their heads.
A future version of Photoshop may include some pretty powerful automatic selection tools if the technology in this new paper by researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Adobe Research pans out.
In space, you don't need a tripod or selfie stick to shoot a remote self-portrait. Nikon Iran recently posted this video of an astronaut in zero gravity placing his Nikon DSLR at arms length and then using the floating camera to snap a shot.
French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen believes that an unflattering photo of him sleeping damaged his image in a recent election, and now he's suing the dancer that snapped and posted it.
We recently shared a 52-week photo challenge you can do to improve you skills over the course of a year. The challenge for week #1 was "self portrait," and photographer Trevor Mahlmann completed it by creating this eye-popping photo, titled "The Universe At My Feet."
A 17-year-old boy in Russia has died after falling 9 stories from a rooftop while engaging in extremely dangerous "rooftopping photography." The goal of the stunt was another eye-catching photo for his Instagram account.
With a little bit of patience and a whole lot of luck, I was able to capture this photograph of myself perched on a rock above the Pacific Ocean. When I set out to photograph the annual famed Perseids Meteor Shower last week, I had a specific goal of capturing a "selfie" photograph with myself in frame and hopefully a meteor streaking overhead (along with a variety of other images throughout the evening). My hope turned into reality in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
This past weekend, Perseid meteor shower were predicted along with a very clear night. This is quite rare in the Netherlands so I decided to head out with my camera.
Photographer Trevor Mahlmann has a knack for capturing light trails showing the International Space Station zipping across the sky. Back in June, he made headlines by photographing the ISS from the seat of airliner as he cruised at 40,000 feet. Now he's back again with another neat feat: he shot a self-portrait of himself staring up at the ISS as it zipped by overhead.
A few weeks ago, Colin Devroe, a friend from Twitter, introduced me to the concept of a panoselfie when he created a Flickr group for it and tweeted at me.
Staring into a mirror and taking a self-portrait with a camera is nothing new. People have been trying to find ways to take their photographs since the 19th century. As humans, we take an interest in ourselves - a curiosity with a dash of self-obsession. A photograph can acknowledge our existence and allow us to view ourselves from the standpoint of others around us. Here are a collection of mirror self-portraits from years passed.
Camera triggering company Triggertrap has launched a new iOS camera app called Triggertrap Selfie. Its functionality is simple: sound-triggered selfies. Simply point your phone, make a loud sound (e.g. scream at your camera), and the app will take care of snapping a shot for you.
So I recently had this crazy idea in my head and some free time. The idea was to have myself falling over in the kitchen with tea and biscuits flying everywhere. Here's a walkthrough showing how I created the image with carefully shot photos and Photoshop.
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But whenever 'they' said that, photographer Ignas Kutavicius clearly wasn't listening. Case in point: he recently decided to take the sublime art of pinhole photography and turn it into a selfie-taking machine... literally.
It was during a trip to the National Gallery of Denmark that Olivia Muus came up with a fun idea: she decided to use painted portraits as the centerpiece for a small collection of forced perspective ‘selfies.’
You know those pictures of astronauts on the ISS, working away at some experiment or another while somebody else takes their picture? Well, somebody else might not have actually been involved.
To celebrate its 20th birthday, Old Navy has created what it's calling a #Selfiebration machine. What is a Selfiebration machine you ask? Why, it’s a 15 foot contraption that turns Twitter selfies into ephemeral pieces of balloon art, à la halftone stylization.
Have you ever heard of the ‘donut selfie’? Probably not since it was just 'debuted' today, but it's actually pretty neat. A donut selfie is an interesting take on the video selfie that uses a panoramic technique to create a perpetual, seamless selfie across multiple locations.
We've seen similar techniques before, but never anything quite like Karen X. Cheng's new 'donut' version. Plus, you can create one from start to finish using just a phone.
Photography pioneer Oscar Rjlander captured a self-portrait in the 1850s that is being hailed as yet another ‘first selfie ever.' But whether or not it really is the first (and that doesn't seem to be the case) it can probably claim to be the most valuable selfie (based on what we could uncover) after being sold at auction for over $100,000.
Last Tuesday, on June 24th, NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover marked the one Martian year anniversary since it touched down on the red planet and began exploring. And what better way to commemorate this occasion when you're alone some 57+ million miles away home than by taking a selfie?
We’ve shared many a flowchart, both serious and silly, in our day, but this one …
When the Mars Rover Opportunity landed on our planetary neighbor on January 25th, 2004 it was undertaking a three-month mission. Well, it's a full decade later and the little guy is still alive and kickin' (in a robotic kind of way).
And what better way to celebrate that achievement then by taking a good ol' fashioned, 2014-like selfie?
If your advertising campaign's goal is to redefine beauty and help High School girls accept and even embrace the flaws so studiously eliminated on magazine covers, you've got an uphill battle ahead of you. But Dove is fighting (and maybe even winning) that battle, and one of the ways they're doing it is by putting the selfie to more empowering use.
Self-portrait time-lapses are few and far between, because the patience required to create one of note is immense. Most of them are picture-per-day time-lapses that require the subject to maintain their dedication to the project for months on end, and the subject him or herself has to go through some amazing change or do something really cool --like lip synch a Queen song... for example -- in the meantime.
There are selfies, and then there are self-portraits. Make no mistake, these are two very different things, in the same way that a photograph differentiates itself from a snapshot. So while the word 'selfie' might be in the midst of experiencing its 15 minutes of fame, it would be an injustice to call photographer Kyle Thompson's gripping self-portraits 'selfies.'