Homework 8

  Even though people who take them are made fun of, Selfies are big indicator of representing who we are. We choose an angle and a lighting that makes us feel good about the way we represent ourselves on social media. Sometime we edit our photos to look a certain way.
  There have always been those horror stories of people using photoshop to create a ridiculous looking self representation, but they do it for confidence or even to make themselves look more appealing to others. However with the paintings that were shown in the "Before the Selfie, the Self-Portrait" it was clear that the painters wanted to show off their skills and focus more on representing themselves accurately.
  Yet the painters back then were doing the same thing people who take Selfies do now: they check their lighting, pick an angel to paint from, and choose a color palette that they want to be painted in (warm palette vs. cool palette).