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I'm going to continue with my photographic exhibition of the month of February. I have accepted the challenge of the [Roberto Mata School of Photography](https://www.instagram.com/rmtf/) to upload a daily photograph during the whole month of February, following the phrase they share every night through their Instagram account. 

Day 4 has been one of the most important days.  Although the phrase in English was "A Dummy Object", I could more easily interpret "Un Estafermo" which was the Spanish translation they gave him, taking advantage of my native language, I wanted to combine both meanings.

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## DAY 4: A Dummy Target
"Un Estafermo"

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> An __Estafermo__ it's a rotating doll, with a shield in the left hand and a strap with balls or pouches. [According to RAE] (https://dirae.es/palabras/estafermo) In English, we can found something similar called __A Dummy Target__.

This has been one of the most interesting days because the result came from practice and experimentation, and that always seems super valuable and enriching to me. At first I wanted to follow the image of the dummy target with the shield, keeping the search for self-portrait and femininity, I wanted to represent that shield for us can be our knowledge and starting from that idea, interesting things happened.

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I used the burst shooting technique to acquire movement in the image, keeping my ideas in the turning object that some way or another is punched by something. I didn't like the result with the books and all the knowledge thing at all, and now that I look more closely at these photos, I think I could see it on my face. 

I started to go around the house and when I do this I usually look for something that attracts my attention in those spaces, some atmosphere or light, trying to follow the Golden Hour aesthetics of the photographs, I usually look for some interesting Light entry, this one I got it resting in the bed of one of the rooms of my apartment, I started to make some tests with clothes in the bed also in burst shooting, until I dared to undress, the object of struggle, that punch, would no longer be a foreign object, but would be the vulnerability of the naked female body. 

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The decision to take Long Exposure photography was almost instinctive. It is a method that I have used before for self-portraits and achieves a very interesting depth in the photographs, especially because it's not something that we see in professional photography perfectly delineated, is the image deforming the known forms and leaving a free interpretation to the viewer of what it sees, the way in which the long exposure captures the movement has always seemed beautiful to me, and is a technique that I hope to continue working. 

Here it was also a lot of work to experiment, putting the camera in several places, until I managed to place the camera inside the bathroom drawer of this room, getting a double frame that is a connotation to intimacy and self-absorption.  

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I think that each of these self-portraits work separately and the experience of making them makes me like them even more, while I made more photos I understood how I should move, for how long to maintain a position and how fast the gestures could be, the self-portrait is not only a photographic act is also a great personal exploration, and I missed a lot expressing it with my body and capturing it with my camera. 

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These days I have been struggling with Lightroom to achieve the effect I want, not having lights or a very good lens I've tried to take photographs in hours and places where I can have a good amount of light that allows me to play with the RAW format of photography and exploit its capabilities, this has been one of the results of development color that I liked most and is what ends more close to the idea of a strong, metallic figure and I think this contrasts perfectly with the smoothness and movement that generate long exposures.

[You can see the Final Result here](https://www.instagram.com/p/BtfA9-OHmxn/) But the one a show you here where really close to made it also. _PD: The final one it's a solid artistic nude_

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