Selfie Post

 

This selfie I thought was a good selfie that connected with the article “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Chapter 3. The article talks a lot about the angle of selfies and and the expression of them. This was is a good example because we chose to take it at a higher angle with the phone to get the green lake in the background because it was colored green for Saint Patrick’s day in Chicago. This picture was taken how we all wanted it to be taken. We had other angles we took it at but one person in the picture was like “I don’t like that angle” so we had to keep taking other ones until we all agreed on one picture we liked. In today’s society it takes forever to take a picture that turns out how you want it to right away. When your trying to take a selfie or picture with you and your friends it will never be perfect the first try. It takes about 5-10 pictures until you at least like one of them. In our teens camera rolls half the pictures are like 3 of the same picture. This selfie of my friends and I wasn’t taken by someone else we had the phone so we got to choose how close we needed to get to each other, if we are all smiling or not and how much of the background we want in the photo. Rather than in a Photo Booth you don’t get to choose when the picture is being taken so people usually do goofy poses rather than trying to look nice.

This picture of my friend and I was taken in the mirror at my sisters house. I picked to put this picture on here because it shows that when we are just hanging with friends we always gotta capture the moment we don’t just look in the mirror and walk away it is always “Lets take a picture”. Everything we do revolves around technology. The article talks about how we use technology in some sort of way everyday and instead of just remembering the moment with our friends we have to get our phones out and take multiple pictures until we get a picture we both agree on. On our phones we look in our camera rolls and see pictures of things we don’t even remember we took. We have pictures from almost every single day on our phones it can tell us what we did last weekend but we don’t even recognize how much we use our phones it just come naturally.

 

 

Chapter 2 talks a lot about filters in everyday life. We try to cover up to get a different visual of what we want people to think us. If we are having a bad hair day or we didn’t put makeup on today we use filters to cover up ourselves we don’t want people thinking we are looking bad. I think that people should just be more natural. Show off themselves because everyone is different. I really am against makeup, I don’t really wear makeup because I think it is a cover up of how we are suppose to look. I didn’t even realized that I used a filter on this picture but it doesn’t even come to come peoples minds they do it so much. The article stats “We cannot represent our lives or our bodies without using or adapting, resisting and pushing against filters that are already embedded in our culture.” (Rettberg, 24-25) It is just a natural thing inner society to use a filter and in the future everyone will just have a filter on every photo so you won’t even be able to tell what someone actually looks like.