Being anywhere still allows for creativity when it comes to self portraits. There are reflective surfaces everywhere you look. One of my photographs is of me on my phone. It’s something that I always carry around me, so taking this photo was just sitting down and pointing my camera at it. However,  just because you’re around a reflective surface doesn’t mean everything becomes easy. At one point I tried to take a photo of myself in a tv. We were on a coach bus that would take us to the hotel for Camp Kesem Summit and it had these tiny TVs on it. I was barely able to make out my silhouette in the photos I took. During our layover I tried to capture my shadow the way many photographers have. It was impossible trying to get my shadow to look like me while still being able to take a photograph of it.

Taking photographs of people you know can also get complicated. Depending on the people you are working with they want to double check everything you do and make sure they look flawless in the pictures. Personally, I would want to capture their personality which resulted in a lot of retakes.

Pictures of strangers is a completely different problem. Trying to capture them without them knowing resulted in many blurry pictures. If I did ask for their permission, I felt like I wasn’t capturing the real them. We all tend to pose or put on our “go-to” smile when we see someone taking a picture of us. It becomes not as real and therefore not the real us.