How I take Self Portraits
“Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”
I haven’t always enjoyed getting my photo taken because I haven’t had control of the photo or the process but that changed a couple of years ago. It changed because I started doing it myself. I started doing it to get the ideas for portrait ideas I had in my head to see if they would actually work and gives me an idea of what it’s like to be on the other side of the camera when I do portraits. Doing this gives me an idea of how to communicate what I want from someone. It also ends well because I can get cute photos of myself.
In a two-day period, I took over 400 photos. I took around 100 on the first day and on the second day, I took over 300. I set up my camera on a tripod with an interval timer on the camera. I set it up to take a photo every second up to 25-75 photos. The first set of photos is me trying to make sure I have my settings right and make sure I have the camera in the direction where I want it and I know where to stand. There are times when the focus doesn’t focus on me but on something behind me, usually, because I’m standing in the wrong spot or leaves behind me leave. I have learned to be patient because generally, it takes 25 photos to get one I like. In this particular shoot, I got more than I usually do but that is the exception to the rule.
I of course have to do goofy photos because life is too short not to be silly every once in a while. What are you going goofy face?
