On Jun 16, 2012, at 12:48 AM, luiz felipe wrote: > Use a mirror beside or behind the camera, so you may see what kind of face > and pose you're making. If you use a large mirror you'll be able to see what > the camera sees with normal to short tele lenses. Some models can use this > mirror behind or beside the camera to adjust their posing - something useful > if you're shooting since yesterday and getting a little tired.
I was using a mirror. > > Tether the camera, keep the notebook just off the frame - it may get in the > way of the lights somehow. This should give access to the actual photo - keep > shooting until you get what you want. > > Catch and train an assistant - and tell him to keep silent unless you are > moving out of the frame. If he says anything about your face, shoot -er, fire > him and get a replacement. > > AF or fixed, avoid wide open lenses or allow creative out of focus > self-portraits. > > The worst about self portraits is you just can't blame the model... Are you kidding? That the one model that I know will accept the blame. > > -- > luiz felipe > luiz.felipe at luizfelipe.fot.br > > Larry's words: >> When there is noone else around to photograph, self portraits can be a way >> to experiment with lighting, however when it comes to actually getting >> decent photos, I keep running into three problems: >> >> 1) Framing, I just have to set the camera wide and hope that most of what I >> want is in the frame. >> >> 2) Focus, It's a hell of a lot easier using a camera with autofocus, but >> even so the camera keeps focusing perfectly, on the wrong thing. >> >> 3) My biggest challenge is that self portraiture is like trying to make a >> silk purse out of a sows ear, or perhaps the whole face. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen lrc at red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
