Most of her work features herself, and are blurred due to long exposure times and Woodman's movement. Most of her photographs were taking on a medium format camera that produced 6x6 cm square negatives. Woodman took her first self portrait at 13, Francesa's mother Betty claims that the reason why Francesa put her self in most of her images is because she was always available, and did not have to rely on others to get the photographs she wanted.