You’ve already noticed that I do rather a lot of selfies using my mobile phone, but a few of you guys have asked me how I do them and get them to look good. What’s my secret? (With additional hidden content for 🥇🥈🥉)
Light is Important
The most important thing about photography is light. Lots of light. This is even more important for video as you’re essentially capturing loads of little photos. It’s very important that when capturing a selfie using a mobile phone that the light is all of a similar “colour”, unless you’re going for the artistic look, you should stick to a single colour temperature of light. All incandescent or all fluorescent is fine, but if you mix the two you can throw the colour balance of your photos and end up with odd skin tones.
Never shoot with the light behind you, and outdoors try and get the sun behind the camera or at an angle where it’s not near the field of view of the camera.
Of course with shiny fetish wear there’s always the chance of reflections and how you choose to use these is up to you, after all it’s meant to be shiny!
Clean your lenses
Your phone has just been in your pocket. The lenses are absolutely costed with oils and fats off your skin. Unless you’re going for a hazy look it is a good idea to clean the lens. Simple glasses cleaner tissues are great for this although if you’ve got got anything with you a wipe on your t-shirt will suffice.
Remote triggering
You have to have some way of triggering the photo, although at a push you can use the self timer function. Bluetooth remote triggers are cheap and readily available although if you have a smart watch remember you have a remote viewfinder and trigger always on your wrist. Many phones (particularly Samsung) also support voice and gesture triggering. In the case of mine, showing an open hand to the camera starts a self timer. I can also say “cheese” and it’ll take a photo although that isn’t as reliable especially in noisy environments.
If you’ve got one of the newer Samsung stylus devices and you have one of the pro styluses (Note 9, 10, 20, Fold 3 with pro stylus) you can use the button on the stylus as your trigger. Many of my photos have been taken this way. Note that not all the styluses support this – they have to be the Bluetooth ones that support air gestures. You can also use these to zoom in and out and change camera modes using air gestures.
Take Lots
Don’t just take 1 or 2, we’re not on film anymore. I’ll take a minimum of 15 photos, although in the set below taken back in December 2021 (full set available only to paid subscribers) I took 200!
Hopefully these insights have given you a few tips into taking the perfect selfie, but please feel free to ask in the comments and I’ll certainly try and help.
Thanks for the photography tips. Great tips. Nice latex suit. The shoes match well also. Nice detail with the blue soles 👍😊
The shoes were a great find as they’re a really dark petrol blue and they look amazing with the Libidex suit. The soles just accentuate that they’re not black. The suit is my 8 year old outfit bought between 2013-2014. It’s much thinner latex than the Libidex suit. Sadly it doesn’t fit me anymore as I’ve got a lot slimmer, bit it’s still as hot as hell to slide into!
This is very helpfull advise for when I will start taking photos again, thank you. I know you use your phone to take photos, but do you also happen to know something about camera’s and what a beginning photographer should look for? I’ve looked at some things but I have no idea where to start because of the huge amount of options and pricerange.
I can also use a full SLR in manual mode, but it really depends what you want. Honestly, a good flagship smartphone these days is enough for most people, but if you’re looking to venture further then the first step (ignoring point and shoot) is to go for something called a “bridge camera”. They often look like an SLR professional camera with the swappable lenses, but functionally they’re very different because they don’t have the mirror inside..
If you’re wanting to go that step further then the sky is the limit, but don’t be tempted to chase megapixels. It’s not just about the number of pixels it’s how big they are. 16 million tiny megapixels may sound better than 10 million much larger ones on a bigger chip, but trust me, my 10 megapixel DSLR pretty much destroys every single smartphone on the market because the chip on it is almost as big as the entire camera array on a smartphone so it can catch far more light.
Thank you, that gives me some terms to narrow my search. I’m not looking for something super high end, just a bit more professional then the average phone. These days I use my ipad 5 th gen to take reference photo’s for paintings and drawings, but it’s not enough. The light areas are way to bright and in low light conditions everything turnes grainy.
I have already used some of your tips on taking photos. I use my S-pan a lot. I know how critical lighting can be. I never have seen to many hot photos of you in latex before. Love the blue shirt and blue shoes.
I remember telling you the s-pen trick.
And I was very grateful for that.
It is very nice to see you in full latex suit
I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoy wearing it.