Selfie Portraits

The art of the self portrait. I'm still working on it.

I don't know why I kept fidding with my hair, but it gave me something to do.

This is oddly my favorite. I don't know why, but I really like it for some reason!

I'm not a huge fan of self portraits. Mostly because it's hard to take a good one. For me at least. I'm just not very good at it! Not that I care that much, I'd much rather be photographing other people instead, but it's nice to know how to do sometimes. Selfies get old...

Anyways, I had my backdrop up, so I figured why not give it a try? My mom and I (and I guess Connor helped a little) worked hard at getting that thing up and looking good for Christmas pictures. And it really did look cool! But it's such a pain to get all set up, so I wanted to get all the use out of it I could!

There were a surprising amount of pictures that I actually wound up liking.

I used all three of my lenses, and once again, the 50mm prevailed! That one has been my tried and true from day one. I'd love to upgrade it, but that probably won't be happening any time soon... 50mm f/1.2, you are on my list!

My zoom lens and my 18-55mm were so hard to focus... My camera has autofocus, but it really only works when someone is actually pushing the button to take a picture, so I had to guess, and I was wrong a lot. Ha!

 A lot of the photos turned out blurry or grainy. Which was a bummer when I uploaded them because most of them looked good on my tiny camera screen! But I had a bunch that did turn out so I can't really complain.

That said, when you take 400 photos, some of them better turn out or you're doing something very wrong!

I doubt I'll be doing it again for a while. I feel so vain taking self portraits! But they look so much better than selfies! Til next time! And let me know if you have any tips!

XOXO, Ness