It's one of those quiet hot days in my world. One of those days where you just want to relax with something nice and cold to drink (non-alcoholic for me please) and just enjoy the birds chirping and spend a little time thinking. It's the second day of my Project 30 and I felt like I was cheating and not being as creative as I could be by doing a selfie. But to be honest self portraits aren't that easy to do. I'm not talking about the kind where you hold your cell phone at arms lengthen or use the reverse camera on your cell phone application or shoot a picture of you in the mirror. I'm talking about setting up lights, framing and composing a shot, having a good expression, getting a good focus, hiding the remote if you're using one, having some interestingness, post porcessing and all the things that go on behind the scenes. I designated today as a selfie day...it wasn't easy to capture and I'm definately trying to stay on track with my Project 30 but it's just that kind of day!
Self Portrait Tip: Use a tripod. Tripods work wonders in helping to eliminate blurred shots from camera shake and allow you to get a better focus when using the timer. AND if you don't have Photoshop, don't worry. Not every image editing job calls for Photoshop; I did this conversion completely in Photoscape which is a free image editing program you can get from
http://photoscape.com/. You can also try
http://picasa.com/
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