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Start Loving Your Body

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I first saw this here: [link]

I'm not one to like having my photo taken ... part of the reason why i became a photographer in the first place - so i could be behind the camera rather than in front of one. But this message spoke to me. So many of us hate our bodies, or some aspect of them. It doesn't matter if we're overweight, underweight, shaped just so, freckled, pale ... there's always something we want to change, because we feel we need to be someone's idea of perfect to be accepted.

But we need to accept who we are.

You're great, just how you are, right now. You're you, and no-one else can be you anywhere near as well.

Technical details:

Obviously i couldn't do this alone, so i employed help. My good friend and fellow photog, Jinx, provided the lighting and his awesome, giant Profoto softboxes (one of which is behind me in these shots). Another good friend who doesn't want to be named provided the body art. The paint is artist's oil paint, though we didn't have a caligraphy brush handy so the kanji on my back is not quite how we hoped it would be (but still awesome, i think).

The kanji is the word "rei", and in this form means "beautiful". It is a play on words, also, as my common pen-name is Kaelyn Rei. One or two of you would know me by that name. Other meanings for "rei" are "zero" and "ghost", but both are different kanji. The kanji in this image is caligraphy, and so is not identical to standard written or printed chinese.

The image is, of course, two images joined together. I downsized it a lot (original is around 250 megabytes as an unlayered TIF).

Please understand that this is a message, and not just a photograph. Also feel free to do your own and, if you wish, send me your link so i can add it here.
Image size
2246x1685px 1.86 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shutter Speed
1/125 second
Aperture
F/5.6
Focal Length
85 mm
ISO Speed
50
Date Taken
Oct 25, 2009, 12:06:59 PM
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hermafrodite's avatar
i dont know whats wrong with me but i cant stand how i look i mean i feel fat but i wouldint want my ribs sticking out i just wanna feel good enuff