Your selfie setup

[dirtywilf]

When taking your photos solo, with a phone or regular ol' camera, whats your setup?

Do you use a tripod or stand, have certain go-to apps, editing?

Most of my photos are taken with a phone, pose and snap. No editing or apps. I see so many great photos on here and am curious!

 

[Cute3Kitty]

I don't think I'm a great photographer or anything but usually I either hold the phone up in my hand or prop it against something. And then I usually use the edit button and the photo editor in the phone to add filters and stuff. A lot of times I don't even add filters.

I do have to take lots of pictures to get the right angle at times haha. I think yours turn out great! And no filter is the best filter at times

 

[Planetbeat]

I use just my iPhone for most shots usually hand held or on a shelf or chair on timer, occasionally have used my Canon EOS 100D SLR on a tripod in the past, but I do quite like the shots with my phone and it has more of a quickie selfie feel. I use Pixr for editing.

 

[pv2012]

I use a regular camera, and sometimes a tripod.
I don't play with filters but like most people here I do some cropping.
Almost any editing software can do that and I'm too cheap to buy photoshop.

 

[ridinghood]

I use a regular camera, and sometimes a tripod.
I don't play with filters but like most people here I do some cropping.
Almost any editing software can do that and I'm too cheap to buy photoshop.

There are good free editing sites that do tonnes more than cropping. Try fotor

 

[oldasspussy]

I use my webcam & my camera on a tripod.

Aside from converting to b&w using Fotor & scribbling out my face with Paint, I don't do any editing other than cropping.

Does anyone know of a free blurring tool? I can't seem to find one.

 

[MaBelle3120]

I use my iPhone, usually just hold it up with my hand, but I'll use the timer and prop it up somewhere if I want a farther shot.
I also like to use the camera on my laptop. Easy to put the laptop on a flat surface and it has a timer.
When taking selfies, lighting can make all the difference.

 

[Tiamo15]

90% of the time I use my tablet propped up using a timer. If it's outdoors, I have my phone and a selfie stick (which is kinda new, people told me to get one). If I'm at my computer, my webcam. And I'm going to start using my real DSLR camera with a tripod more often, I have more control over depth of field, lighting, speed, etc...

Then I use Photoshop to crop/watermark and usually add style with actions from TRA or Kubota.

 

[dirtywilf]

Thanks for all the responses!

I need to figure out a timer, and brush up on my lighting skills.

For editing I'll use Pixlr, too. I forgot about that website/app.

Happy Tuesday!

 

[30bandits]

Thanks for all the responses!

I need to figure out a timer, and brush up on my lighting skills.

For editing I'll use Pixlr, too. I forgot about that website/app.

Happy Tuesday!

titty Tuesday wilf....titty Tuesday....

 

[writerperson]

I use my webcam & my camera on a tripod.

Aside from converting to b&w using Fotor & scribbling out my face with Paint, I don't do any editing other than cropping.

Does anyone know of a free blurring tool? I can't seem to find one.

Paint.NET is a free, lightweight image editor. I use it a lot, and it's got a handy blur function, as well as loads of other settings (which you can safely ignore). It's basically a high-tech replacement for Paint, but much smaller and simpler than Photoshop.

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

 

[boo56]

It depends, doesn't it?

Everything from the webcam sitting on the monitor to the camera on the tripod, through and including the tablet on the table and the cell-phone on the selfie-stick.

Un-retouched through so heavily photoshopped as to be undecipherable.

 

[7inchglory]

Most of my shots are from my phone, but I'll be taking more with my camera and tripod soon.

I use light room or photoshop to edit my photos, and for my HD videos I post up, I use adobe premiere pro

 

[Ekserb]

I've used two setups. One with my DSLR on a tripod and using either the self-timer or an electronic remote that can automatically trigger a frame at any specified interval, or one with my iPhone on a Joby GorillaPod using the camera app's self-timer.

The benefit of the DSLR is, of course, amazing image quality. The drawback is it's heavy and it creates files that are quite large; maybe bigger than I want to use on selfies. Especially selfies destined only for Literotica.

The iPhone 6S creates beautiful images as well (so good they rival my first 6MP DSLR), although I'm not given the same amount of control in the making or the editing of the photos. The truth is, shots that will be seen only online do not need the kind of quality a DLSR provides due to the necessary reduction in resolution from the original.

DSLR on tripod:
http://pdbreske.smugmug.com/photos/i-HjFqN3N/0/XL/i-HjFqN3N-XL.jpg

iPhone mounted on a tree with the GorillaPod:
https://pdbreske.smugmug.com/photos/i-6wmpphJ/0/O/i-6wmpphJ.jpg

And yes, I am a professional photographer. Your mileage may vary.

 

[hotoldrguy]

I use the phone. set it on something that seems to be at the right height set the timer for 10 seconds and assume the position

 

[jsmiam]

Take the selfie as a short video. Laugh at yourself for how silly you'll feel. But, that smile while you're actually laughing at yourself will be a real and authentic smile, and better than any awkward fake smile you'll come up with while trying to pose.

Play back the video. Pause at a a good frame of the video. Do a screenshot, and use that picture.

• iphone screenshot - (expect a few practice rounds before you get good at hitting the two buttons at the exact same time) = The SLEEP-WAKE and HOME button at the same time
• Android (most) and many others - POWER and VOLUME-DOWN button at the same time.
• Or just google "screenshot " and your phone name and model.

@OldAssPussy - There's a program called "PhotoFiltre" that is a great balance between ease of use and power. Sad to say, the author sold out to scummy advertising tactics. However, there's a website called portableapps (you fill in the .com) with a good reputation, and they take many of the worlds most popular freeware apps, and convert it into a version that can be installed on a USB stick (doesn't have to be on a USB stick, can be to your hard drive or USB). The Portableapps version won't have the scummy advertising junk that the regular version does, so get it only from PortableApps (you fill in the .com part).

Or of course, send to me, I'll edit for ya... ;-)