How to learn beautifully to photograph yourself

Certainly everyone familiar with the situation when you want to change the avatar in a social network, but with aphotograph you nobody. To get a nice avatar at home, and without assistance, if you have a digital camera. You can take pictures of themselves and get a good result, and in this article we will explain what rules you should follow.

Instruction

Photographed in a room that is well lit. Cheap digital cameras give acceptable picture quality only at good lighting. It is best that the lighting was afternoon sunlight is the most natural.

If you are photographed in the evening, turn on the strong lighting. In the daytime take pictures in front of the window, standing so that the sunlight fell on your face evenly. Never stand with your back to the window – the picture will be overexposed.

Taking pictures on the street, you will save yourself from problems with the angle of the incident light – lighting outside is most naturally and evenly.

In order for photos seamless, that you photographed yourself, use the camera settings a timer that can be set on a timer in 5, 10 or more seconds.

Put the camera on a flat surface, set the timer and make sure the lens is pointing at you in the right perspective and captures your figure wholly or partially. Press the shutter button and take the right position. After a few seconds, triggered the self-timer, and the camera takes a picture.

Taking a pose for pictures, do not throw back his head too high, but not lower it too low in the photo, it will look unprofitable. Posture should be natural and relaxed.

If the photo should be only your face, and you want to make the avatar portrait, set the camera so that the lens was on the level of your eyes. For pictures of the figures on the zone the camera is set at the level of the chin.

In order to frame it, clear and fixed, in the absence of a level surface, the camera safer to put on a tripod parallel to the floor.

Please note that the backdrop you photographed. Should not be photographed on the background of the untidy room, an unattractive interior, and dirty dishes.

If you decided to photograph myself in the mirror, do not use flash – it can spoil the entire picture lit up is your reflection. The photo in the mirror can be beautiful only in case, if the mirror is clean and the room good lighting.

After the photo is taken, adjust and retouch it in Photoshop.

Note

First, you should know what the shutter speed and aperture – the ability to properly handle the exposure will help you to take beautiful pictures of fireworks, and the aperture you fall, when you begin to photograph models; secondly, what exposure is and how to correct it. When the lighting is too complicated or simply not enough, you need to learn how to photograph with a flash.

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