Nouns: Bobby-pin. Hair-pin. Safety-pin. Rolling-pin. Push-pin.
Verb: to hold something down
I don’t want to work too hard on this in post and (again) preferred to capture everything in-camera. That condition/criteria precluded me from my original idea: taking an image of myself with the bottom of my shirt stuck in a window frame and me trying to pull myself free. I then could have cut myself out and photoshopped me onto the bulletin board hanging over my desk at the office with a pin holding my shirt in place on the board.
I elected instead to find a few comics that playfully expressed my disdain for the workplace and decided to capture a full-body selfie of myself. I would take a similar idea as I had before and would still afix myself to the bulletin board with a pin, but I would make it purposefully 2-dimensional. I placed the corner of hangar under my shirt to allow for me to pin myself to the board with the appearance that I was hanging from the board by my shirt.
After capturing my selfie in black and white, it was a quick task to print it on traditional copy paper, cut myself out, then wait until the following day to pin myself on the bulletin board with the comics. I initially planned on shooting straight on, but elected to shoot up on the board ever-so-slightly to add just a little perspective and depth.
It is not an image that will garner much attention and it is something that most observers will scroll past without even noticing it, but I am sorta happy with how I pulled off the concept that I was aiming for. I probably could have done more with the lighting, but that drab light is part of the experience of being pinned down at the office, so it was exported as it is.
