Tips For Self Portrait Photography
For the self portrait photography, you need a digital camera, suitable background, tripod if needed. If you want to earn from your photography then you must have a photography portfolio website so that you can showcase your creative side to the world. Let us see few tips that would help you to improve and enhance your photos which you can click by yourself by using any camera which you have.
Preparing for the self portrait
A bit of the preparation is required when you need the best shots. Even in the magazine also, the fabulous shots have been prepared well with all the perfection. So if you wish to appear like a model, then you should approach your shoot in the same manner.
Location of the shoot
For the official photo you must have a plain background, it might be gray, cream or white. The informal shot may give you the natural background, as this photo shot is simply about you so just avoid the distracting backgrounds. So you can just choose the plain wall. If you wish to take the pictures in the background, than keep the simple background.
Leaves and flowers are fine, but simply avoid too many colors otherwise people would not look at your picture only see the background. For the indoors you can use curtains as a background. Also bright colors would work lovely for the background. Although, best color of the background would be the one which goes perfect with the skin tone. For example, which color makes you look better, shades of blue, black etc.
The long arm
If you have long arms than you can just simply hold the camera as far it is possible from you, keep on smiling and keep pressing the shutter. You can also just place the camera above than you and you keep looking up, this also gives the nicer shot.
Click and move along
Most of the cameras have got the timers option nowadays, so you can use that option in your camera. So here you would not be holding the camera at the time of taking the picture so either you require a steady place like table or shelf and the better option here would be to use tripod.
Preparing for the self portrait
A bit of the preparation is required when you need the best shots. Even in the magazine also, the fabulous shots have been prepared well with all the perfection. So if you wish to appear like a model, then you should approach your shoot in the same manner.
Location of the shoot
For the official photo you must have a plain background, it might be gray, cream or white. The informal shot may give you the natural background, as this photo shot is simply about you so just avoid the distracting backgrounds. So you can just choose the plain wall. If you wish to take the pictures in the background, than keep the simple background.
Leaves and flowers are fine, but simply avoid too many colors otherwise people would not look at your picture only see the background. For the indoors you can use curtains as a background. Also bright colors would work lovely for the background. Although, best color of the background would be the one which goes perfect with the skin tone. For example, which color makes you look better, shades of blue, black etc.
The long arm
If you have long arms than you can just simply hold the camera as far it is possible from you, keep on smiling and keep pressing the shutter. You can also just place the camera above than you and you keep looking up, this also gives the nicer shot.
Click and move along
Most of the cameras have got the timers option nowadays, so you can use that option in your camera. So here you would not be holding the camera at the time of taking the picture so either you require a steady place like table or shelf and the better option here would be to use tripod.
