So tonight I thought I go for something easy and do a self portrait in the powder bath mirror.
Ahem. Easy? No.
Okay, all you bathroom mirror shooters….how in the heck do you take so many great pics this way?!? I spent I know what must have been an hour to get the following blurring, off-kilter shots. Maybe I am spatially challenged? It took me forever to figure out how to aim the camera to even include myself in the pic. Embarrassing to admit, but true. Most of the outtake frames on this shoot included pics of the ceiling, door trim, sink, etc. Way harder than it looks to take photos this way and yet…I see it done all over the Internets. What gives? I hope my mother doesn’t see this post…she won’t like me making faces….could freeze that way….
I got a great bathroom shot. My stratagy….take 25-30 photos and 1 good one will come out nicely. Does this help : )
oh yes, you need to look at the live view to be able to frame yourself and then go with taking lots of shots
I suck at self portraits in mirrors, but I am loving your expressions in these two pics! And Mom was right, your face may freeze like that
@ C. Crowder – - Hah! I am following your strategy but these 2 were the best of a bunch of what seemed like 1,000!
@ Trish – – Live View, now that is nifty and good idea, alas my lowly camera does not offer that option….
@ Kelley – - Best you not be running off to tell my momma – hehehe!
I think you did great! I am mirror-picture-challenged too. I actually took some of myself in the bathroom at our homeschool classes. Glad no one came in while I was snapping away!
LOL! I think you did good. Gotta expose brighter though!
What I do is just hold the camera up to my face and take the pic like any other normal pic – that way my face is covered by the camera and not in the photo!