Senior Fitness and Self Care in Self Portraits

Last year, I shot more than 150 self portraits in my home studio. They were mostly about fitness and self care, but also facial expressions and other lifestyle concepts. I shot them against gray or white background, but some pictures have added background in postprocessing. I used my medium format camera, Fuji GFX100, in a studio. Urban backgrounds and texture were collected during biking around Fort Collins.

I posted a slideshow of around 50 images related to fitness on my Youtube fitover67 channel. I believe that some portraits are pretty good, while some other are more like concepts or work in progress. Please tell me what do you think. If you like the video please find that like button.

It was more a personal project, sort of self exploration, but I added selected images to my stock photography portfolio. There are available for licensing as royalty free images on adobe stock, and other agencies. Some portraits were shot specifically for stock: a senior man holding a blank notebook, blackboard or tablet. I am using them to create some inspirational images, see my previous post: Don’t Let Age Define You – Keep Pursuing Your Passions.

A few examples of my self care portraits:

Shooting self portraits is an adventure, much more involving than simple selfies. I’ve learned a lot working on this project, self acceptance and self awareness including. Composition in a tight space of my home studio with strange, often heavy, objects may be quite challenging. And, there is also motivation to improve your appearance and posing.

I am getting ready for the next series of self portraits. For sure, they will include sound healing theme using Tibetan singing bowls, Tingsha cymbals, shaman drum and steel tongue drums, and more fitness concepts. Here is my sound healing collection.