Facebook Flips

I finish off most every roll of film I shoot by taking a mirror selfie. It’s my system for remembering which camera and lens I used. I have shared these self portraits here and occasionally on various Facebook groups I belong to, mostly to show off a camera. More times than I can count, someone in the group will download the photo, put it into Photoshop, flip it and re-post it. At the very least, someone will comment “Why don’t you flip this image so we can read the name of the camera correctly?”

I’ve done post processing of my photographs since I started in photography. Manipulating images in the darkroom was time consuming, but fun. Photo software makes it much easier. Whatever a photographer wants to do to their own image to fully express his or her vision, I say “have at it!” But please leave mine alone. I think a mirror selfie should look like a mirror selfie. And in this case, you spell it n-o-k-i-n.