Is it a self-portrait?

MattKing

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Yes - assuming you are in and the subject of the picture .
But if you hand your camera to someone else and then put them in charge of what you, they and the lighting does, it is their work.
 

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What's more important - the idea and direction of the photo or the mechanics of activating the shutter? Getting someone else to press the shutter is not much different from using a self-timer.
 

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Don_ih said:
What's more important - the idea and direction of the photo or the mechanics of activating the shutter? Getting someone else to press the shutter is not much different from using a self-timer.
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From my experience, a self timer is not only more reliable, but it doesn't ask any dumb questions.
 

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This thread made me go reading a bunch of stuff about Cindy Sherman, because I remembered that, for some of her photos, other people pressed the shutter. An example:

#48 - her father pressed the shutter.

But then, her photos -- can they actually be called "self-portraits"?
 
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