Photography tips - (Selfies) How to shoot truly epic self-portraits
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- How to get the perfect self-portrait outdoors.
Practical Photography's Louise Carey heads to the Lake District on a particularly wet and windy day and becomes the star of her own landscapes. Self-portraits are a great way to indulge your creative side, especially if you don't mind getting wet!
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Sometimes the most simple solutions are the hardest to come up with. To focus for a self portrait without an assistant, place your tripod where the camera is going to be, take your camera with you to where you are going to be, set your camera to manual focus and focus on the tripod. There you go. When you place the camera back on the tripod it will be focused to where you are going to be.
Now there's a handy tip I've never ever heard before. Thanks!
The million dollar advice!
OMG. That is just brilliant! Such a simple solution and I never would have thought of it myself. Thanks for sharing.
What a great idea! I'm definitely doing this!
That is so genius. Thank you.
nooooooo not that music ANYTHING BUT THAT MUSIC
Hannah Cave I stop watching videos that have this music, but this video was so worth it lol
okay! If you say so I'll watch it haha
Hannah Cave HAHAHAHA I get you
CLEARLY you don't watch as much youtube as me to understand the use of this song...
Hannah Cave Omayghad yass HAHAHHAHA that music is on everything! Lmao
I saw a neat trick to focus for a self portrait, which made me just say of course. Set up your tripod where you want to shoot from, take your camera out to where you will be standing and focus on the top of your tripod. If you are stand in a place where you can't mark the ground, just use some string to mark the distance. The distance won't change so your focus will be good, your only problem will be in getting yourself in the frame, but trial and error will fix that.
Very cool shots, I'm even more impressed with your audio under such windy conditions
Was thinking the same thing! how the audio was so clear with that wind....
wow, the life of a photographer.
Thanks for teaching me something
Now that’s what I call dedication :)
I especially love the photo of you in the lake! It could be on the cover of a bestseller thriller! Love the moodiness and your red dress that seems to enhance the eerie mood.
Thanks so much! Yes, I was really happy with the contrast of the blue tones and the red dress :) - Louise
Efforts taken! WOW!
Dear Louise, or should one call you braveheart...thank you so much for this great and helpful video. I really appreciate the effort you put into. And the shots are as beautiful as you are my dear. Congrats.
You are a fantastic teacher...I get frustrated with lots of so called youtube tutorials, but this was actually really helpful!
Thanks Angelika! I'm really glad you enjoyed the tutorial :) - Louise
Thank you so much for these tips, your photography is amazing. When you don't have any photography friends it's nice to be able to get photographs of yourself for once haha.
Thanks Marissa! I've definitely found that it's a great way to try out concepts before investing in a model :) - Louise
But what if you are an old ugly dude like me?
you did awesome! I'm looking for ways to do this because my daughter an I are heading to the park to take some photos of ourselves 😂 We shall see how it turns out. She is 3 an came up while I was watching your video an the 2 photos from the mountains was showing up. She said "wow! I love her pictures!!" so you get approval from a hard to please 3 year old. 😀😉
Amazing epic shots! Well they should be! First of all, you're a very good epic Landscape Photographer to start with, and secondly, you also got a lovely model to post for you... Yourself. Truly epic images!
You look like Merida in Brave especially in the first location. So gorgeous!
Thanks for making this video. I always wonder how to make a good self portrait. As a photographer myself, I often find it hard to find someone who can take my picture the way I want. So I decide to take my own picture. The problem is with the focus and the aperture. You answered some of the questions through the video, so thanks! Can't wait to try it myself. :)
Stunning shots.
Very brave going out into the cold water.
Ms Louise, Thank You for such a wonderful video. It is given me a lot of great information. Thanks again for going that extra mile, or in your case, that extra windy, cold, wet mile..
Great job! Beautiful images with great moodiness to them. You are a trooper and the results were awesome because of it.
Excellent images of yourself young lady and a great video, well done :)
Love the images and the tips. Please consider making a post production video, I would love to see how you went from raw photo to final image.
Your perseverance against the elements resulted in some lovely images. Thank you for sharing.
I visited the Lake District during a week-long drive through England and Wales. Some gorgeous terrain.
Really excellent clear instructions and recapping, thanks for this video
I love this video I want to get into self portraits too, your adorable and I love your hair too
Yep fantastic audio in those windy conditions, and you got a couple of cracking shots.
magic shoot
Wow you poor cold thing... but these look amazing!! LOVE!!!
wow...speechless after that
Congratulations, Louise. Really loved the video.
Absolutely perfect. I love your vision! Omg so inspired now. Mystical / fantasy feels
My heart stopped when I saw your tripod in the water
You did an excellent job with the audio!
Great video, Louise. Lovely images. The things you have to do for Practical Photography!!
WOW!!!
Excellent. Some good tips there. I'm a bit of a selfie landscaper myself and I was at that spot in Buttermere at the end of April. Couldn't reach the tree in the lake as the area is fenced off for 6 months of the year as there are Sandpipers nesting in the surrounding tree roots. I went to the left and found some awesome stepping stone rocks as leading lines out into the lake and used them for my selfie by standing on the end two. Standing really still did a 76sec long exposure using a remote trigger in bulb mode. Worked out too.
But total respect for getting in the water Louise!
amazing shot!
I'll bet that you froze more than your action. ;) LOL Fantastic shots though and you are to be congratulated for your determination....The things that we photographers do for a great shot.
This was super helpful!!
great tips and great photos... Very brave to be venturing out in that cold water to get the shot :)
Beautiful photos! Very impressed with your technique and the composition you came up with for both locations! Can’t wait to try some self portraits for myself 🙏🏼
appreciate it very much for your bravity and devotion into photography. Keep going!
Thank you very much! That's so helpful and images are so beautiful! Your work is incredible!
Lovely shots with perfect settings. Thanks for the information and letting us in on how it is done.
Great effort, well done, lovely images too.
Beautiful
What I like about my canon setup is that I can set up the canon app to remotely control my camera. I can set the countdown timer on my phone for the camera to say 10 seconds, put my phone away and wait for my shots, review them off the phone etc. Not sure if nikon have this for nikon users?
SnapBridge has it but it's pretty shitty in my experience. I just use the time lapse feature as well. More pictures in less time, with less hating on the piece of shit app I'm required to use otherwise.
That 20mm is my favourite landscape lens.
I use a Styrofoam head that I drew on, and gave it some glasses to use as a focus object. I also have a female head and a stand. The head can be bought at Walmart or hobby lobby for like $4 and the stand was about $10-$20 on Amazon. Dose wonders for my practicing and self portraits.
Fantastic. Such beautiful photos.
Brilliant shots. Thank you very much for your time and effort.
Shots are amazing Louise, and tips are also great! Do you have any videos on how to achieve the cinematic effect like the one on the final images from this video?
Those shots were amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Question, I have a cannon g7x mark ii when i hold the camera and take pics of myself its good quality and very focus, but when i put it on a tripod and take self portrait with the 5 second timer the quality isnt the same and when you zoom in to the photo it doesnt look great, would really like the help how to do this. thanks
absolutley brilliant
Wonderful video and photographs Louise
A very well produced video and a very courageous girl 👍🏽
I feel your images are outstanding !!
u could be the love child of kate bush/annabelle croft. .
love your enthusiasm and ideas, nice one 😉
youre great
such an inspiration
Super shots, great info good video. Many thanks.
Beautiful pictures!
Thanks a lot for this. I love you and your works
wow! beautiful shots and a little bit painful i think.
thank you
What a beautiful place!
Great work!
Fantastic shots! Well done.
Hi Louise, long time ago you enthused me to get into photography, and it's been great. But where are you now? Do you still do videos anywhere, I found them the most inspiring of all, and I have watched quite a few lol. Whatever, I hope you are well, Rod :)
Lovely lady and wonderful tips and images. Unfortunately, we are all not as photogenic as you are.
Definitely suffering for your art!
Damn you make it look so easy & your shots are so beautiful!
Great self-portraits. I need to get out more and stop the excuses. Only one point to make - surely it was manual mode rather than aperture priority? You wanted to capture detail of self & landscape and freeze action of hair and dress hence f8+1/250th and in the second shoot again capture self detail and soften ripples in the water hence f5+1/30th. ISO could then be manual or auto depending how you want light & texture.
This is very inspirational!
woahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Amazing works!!!
it's really challenging because you have to expose for yourself but you also want a nice exposed background... otherwise you got to fix a lot in lightroom or photoshop lol
Beautiful shots😍😍😍
Well done! Bravo!
cool video.. for focussing, i would suggest slightly a different approach.. take the camera off the tripod, go to the spot where you want to stand, focus on the tripod, lock the focus and then take from the tripod..
But why do it this way and not choose the focus point and then orient yourself into the picture to have the focus point on you and use autofocus? That way, of you walk in in that place you can go closer/further while you're taking pictures with the camera always focusing on you...
Great video! Really inspiring!
Your videos impressed me dear.
I am your big fan my lovely friend.
liked up and shared with my friends
on my friend list.
Hi Louise! Lovely vid. What kind of microphone do you use out there? You sound great.
What tripod do you recommend for self portraits outside? :) Thank you!
The one that you have
what mic do you use?
But how do you focus? I have a canon 5d so now lifeview:( i am thinking about continious focus and timer?
Great stuff thanks.
i so love the idea! thanks for sharing :)
Really love the channel and everything you guys at practical photography stand for, I've learnt so much., I'm not a great photographer, but I can't help but feel like your last shots are really quite underexposed... I know this is subjective. However, judging by the comments, I can only assume that I'm wrong.. could somebody explain why? Also, why do you guys always shoot scenic shots at the same bloody places, haha?
that looked really cool
Nice shot!
amazing !!
Great job loveit
Amazing!!!
Great images
Beautiful images. Please tell us your mic setup, especially for the first scenario where it was so windy. Thank you! :-)
very very good !!
You're absolutely beautiful!
Nice video and your hair look beatyful :)
Really liked this tutorial, very personal and interesting techniques. You looked sooo cold I hope you recovered lol
good tips...nice info love ur video
nice job. .... :). love it
That is dedication lol
Awesome
fantastic
What model camera are you shooting with?