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.
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...
--
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
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