Self Portraits vs Selfies

A selfie is a picture taken of yourself by yourself, usually taken on a phone or other digital device. It's instantaneous and disposable, a new one able to replace it in seconds. a self portrait, is a carefully planned and thought out image of yourself, in medias ranging from paint to technology. The idea behind them both is to capture an image of someone at a point of time, freezing that moment in time.

The difference between 'Selfies' and Self-Protraits is a blurred line with the largest defining factor being the amount of time, effort, and thought put into the image. So then a selfie could become a self portrait if planned out and crafted carefully, but a self-portrait could be a selfie if simplified, since the concept is the same.

I prefer self portraits to selfies, even though they are more time consuming. It allows the maker to be more creative and distort reality one way or another, especially when painting, something I love doing. Selfies are fun, but they don't have any memory or feeling behind them, but when they do, thats when they become a self-portrait.



was unable to add picture from phone but it was a selfie with some cool lighting in a car