Methods to focus for a self portrait???

[sully75]

Uhhh, what about this?



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I think that would only work if you were taking a picture of the back of their head.


Lenny

[Ed Bray]

two attachments..

1 is an amazingly good drawing by me (not easy to "draw" in photoshop..) on how my girlfriend has told me she does it.

2 is one of her self portraits made this way.. (rather precise I'd say...)

1: place your camera - and place a big mirror under or next to it so you can see what you're doing (be carefull as it of course isn't the precise mirroring).

She then places a microphone stand right outside the actual framing (that takes care of the framing in the whole image.)

A string with a pencil or other thing attached to the string. A (red dot on image) chewing gum or similar is placed excately where she has one of the eyes - that's where she will focus.

After focussing et al, she places her self at the right spot, and then gently pushes her top boom arm of teh stand away from sight. Then carefully look if the light and pose is right and takes the picture...

Nothing to it - but it can take hours...

If I looked like that I would be happy doing selfies, as I don't I wouldn't want to make you all sick!

[Drew Bedo]

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I set up my 8x10 with another tripod in front and clamped an empty picture frame to it. Taped a piece of paper to he frame with a focusing target and framed and focused on that. Then I sat behind the frame, removed the paper and placed my head in the frame with my eyes at the plane of the picture frame. Tripped the shutter with a long-ish cabl release.