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Anonymous
I come to you /p/ to ask you to share your knowledge on a self portrait subject.

How do I take good self portraits?

Picture related, but obviously not an example of a good self portrait.

P.S. We can make a self portrait thread out of this too.
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>> Macheath !8b4g0BkNZg
Remote shutter release!!!
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Try to come up with a more interesting idea for a picture than "Im inna mirrur lulz"
>> des
>>69140
I've only taken one that I liked, I'll see if I can find it
>>69143
You can work with the stereotype for lulz, that's what I did with the one I liked. I was holding a small mirror looking into it and had the camera on a tripod looking over my shoulder into the mirror.
>> Anonymous
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Well since no-one really likes to see your camera in a self portrait, especially if its covering your face effectively making it a photo of a camera...not a portrait, the key is a self timer.

Location, lighting, costume, not being a hideously obese freak are all things to keep in mind since usually the idea of a portrait is to capture the essence (or in some cases what they wish they could be) of someone.
>> Anonymous
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I set up a tripod in front of an old brick building and took my own senior portrait in high school. I don't consider this artistic though.

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>> Anonymous
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>>69227
Same poster here.

This is my artistic self portrait, photoshooped.

(BalchPhoto.deviantart.com)

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>> Anonymous
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>>69228

And again.

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>> Anonymous
>>69227
Very cool man! that brick and metal looks very cool
>> Anonymous
>>69140
I came
>> Anonymous
Oh God
>> Anonymous
you can't. it's virtually impossible. at least for you
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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>>69217
>not being a hideously obese freak
This is where I generally fuck things up.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>69228
I never would've guessed this was from DeviantArt.
>> Anonymous
>>69261
Very cool. 99999+ hours in photoshop?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>69264
0 hours in photoshop. Well, rounded down--I did have to convert it to black and white. But other than that, all practical.
>> Anonymous
>>69261
Is that the camera against the far wall on a tripod? Makes sense since it's dead-center in the image...
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>69272
Yep.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
I took a nice selfportrait in a mirror by not being a total retard at spacial awareness and being able to point a camera at myself w/o looking down it.

Protip: look up the lense.
>> Anonymous
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Prefocus, set to manual, apply timer, go.

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>> Anonymous
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Here's another one. Same story. Morning light was good. Same place, too. Unfortunately, the place no longer exists. Got bulldozed out of existence.

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>> Anonymous
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Sometimes timing is the key.

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>> Anonymous
>>69313
>>69318
Now you're REALLY trying to look gay.
>> Anonymous
>>69319

Do I succeed? Oh plz tell me I succeed.
>> Anonymous
>>69312
I like this one, especially the sky has turned out very well in my opinion.

>>69313
>>69318
Well, hard not to agree with>>69319
However second one has its pluses... You know, 99999+ hours in photoshop can do magic things.
>> Anonymous
>>69323
Only partially. Try not to emphasize the muscles, this only works if you're hairy. Wear either saggy or really tight pants. Try sitting on the ground in dreamy poses instead of jumping.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>69323
WITH GUSTO!
>> Anonymous
>>69331

Absolutely 0 hours in Photoshop, actually. I did a few tests with the timer and determined the exact moment when I should jump. One of the 3 shots I took turned out like that.

i did it for the lulz!
>> Anonymous
>>69338
That's not what I meant, you SHOULD edit that picture in photoshop for lulz an' stuff!
Something along these lines - Spiderman, Batman, Superman, you name it.
>> Anonymous
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>>69343

oic. I did do a quick edit of the first one for lulz.

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>> Anonymous
>>69345
awesome
>> Anonymous
>>69345
Shrek, have you lost weight?
>> Anonymous
>>69313
>>69318
Don't be a lazy ass and start toning your muscles. I mean cmon you're half way there.
>> Anonymous
OP looks like he's probably a cutie. Moar plx.
>> Anonymous
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I just set my camera to auto focus and point somewhere in the direction of my face. I tried, but eh, I think my camera is TOO close to my face.
>> Anonymous
What the hell, several posts are missing from this thread.

Are mods here that anal about shit? That even showing the amusing shops that the photographer himself did to his pics cant even be posted without being removed?

Nazi much?
>> Anonymous
>>69538
And troll posts like>>69320somehow don't get deleted. WTF?
>> Anonymous
>>69540
mmm, removed.
don't post any crappy parodies that spark trolling and other crap like comments about Shrek
>> Anonymous
It wasnt a troll post, it was the god damn truth.

Get over yourselves mods, this thread was going fine and youre shitting it up by removing posts.

Gee wonder how long it will be before this one gets removed and i likely receive a ban.
>> Anonymous
>>this thread was going fine and youre shitting it up by removing posts.
no, you're shitting it up by defending people that started rambling about Shrek. its both off-topic and a shitty shop
>> Anonymous
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>>69425

Okay, there you go.

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>> Anonymous
>>69792

owai, no, I fail. I forgot I wasn't the OP.
Smee anyway.
>> Anonymous
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Also, 7chan's /pho/ is up now. So I'll be doing some of that fine relocating.

Summer night, backlit by the flashlight's beam on the rest of the wheat.

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>> Anonymous
>>69792
A gym would really be more efficient.
>> Anonymous
asdf