Or, “Abandoned. Why I Gave up Selfies in Favor of a Burka!”
(Click on first photo and arrows to enlarge your illustrations and see your instruction guide.)
It is also a good idea to let the shower steam settle first.
2019
Sometimes filters are a good idea to filter out fine lines, but remember to go for a natural look.
Or Photoshopping.
I can’t for the life of me remember what I had on around my neck and face or why.
Playing around with light balance might create some interesting effects and remember to always emphasize your best features.
If all else fails, there is always the cropping tool.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I think maybe selfies for us are not a really terrific idea. Just saying 🙂
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Well, it is intended as a sendup. I have seen so many people with those camera extenders and a really self-satisfied look on their faces taking photos of themselves lately that I couldn’t resist.
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Hahaha! So funny. A couple of years ago I was trying to get a decent “portrait” of myself and ended up with just a closeup of my eyes. Crop out ALL the rest of my face. In a few years, I’m not sure if I’ll just crop the whole picture out!
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I didn’t dare post the really bad ones. I look like my grandma in them, and that ain’t good.
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Had to laugh. You remind me of me trying to take a selfie! 🙂
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I think you need newer brain cells in your body than I have to do so, Miriam… and certainly more of an ego.
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Hahaha Yeah, maybe 🙂 Counts me out.
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I have the inexpensive version of photoshop called “Elements” or something? Can’t be bothered to try and learn it. I know it’s not too difficult, from the few times i’ve opened it. I like to take photos and live with them. Never been big on selfies, either. Although I’ve been doing them, since before they were called “selfies”. I like the Galaxy phone app better than iPhone’s. I have a Canon point and shoot with more settings than cared for, too. I kind of like, the iPad but always feel a bit awkward pointing that thing in public. Kinda’ reminds me, of those camera’s that used a tripod and a hood. But the iPad takes cracking photos. I remember when we called them snaps. It took a bit of getting used to and I took plenty of bursts. Until i learned not to be so heavy-handed. Ho hum … Cheers Jamie.
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BTW … Judy, it was not an intent to appear to be dismissive here. For you take cracking photos.
I realized after, It likely came across as arrogant? When I was just sharing. … Sorry, my bad. Cheers Jamie
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Nothing you said seemed arrogant or dismissive, but thanks for explaining, even if it wasn’t necessary!
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I might have prefaced those comments by saying how giving away technique? Is very helpful for those who wish to take those shots. Kudos for another well crafted post. Cheers Jamie. Not difficult to see, why you have so many readers. J.
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It was all a joke, Hirundine…Tongue in cheek. And the photos were terrible. I really was trying to get a photo because I had my Kindle tucked into the front of my blouse so I could listen to it without having to carry it around in my hands.. then noticed it was shining through my blouse. I thought it was hilarious as it looked like a t-shirt with the book cover on the front, but all lit up from within. So, I wanted to get a picture of it in the mirror, but I looked so horrible in all the photos that I started playing around with them to try to hide my defects––eventually just showing one eye. Then it occurred to me it would be funny to do a spoof on selfies… So it was never really intended to be instructional..It taught more by what not to do than what to do.
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Judy, Okay … joke’s on me, then? I still feel, I might have a been a tad more polite than ignoring your directions? Then launching into my own world. Looking back over it … I get it and see how the device was shining through. But nonetheless, your photos are excellent, of course. Cheers Jamie.
PS. I use the name hirundine on the internet and do not mind being called that, of course. It means “like a swallow”. I usually sign my name, too. Cheers Jamie.
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I’m terrible at remembering names, Jamie..so resort to using blog names unless I am able to scout out a name in comments. There. My dreadful secret is out. I even frequently misplace the names of my best friends! Kind of scary if half of my friends weren’t experiencing the same lapses. How is it that I can work out the most complicated meters or rhymes but can’t remember the names of those I know well, let alone blogger friends whose blog names I see more frequently than the names of their blogs? Pleased to learn a new word, though. Hirundine==like a swallow!
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No problem Judy, I’m happy to be known as hirundine. WP capitalizes it. I had to add the number at the time of sign up. Because I had already used hirundine in an earlier sign up and forgotten. The numbers, were my street address then. Memory is a strange thing. As we age memory becomes elusive. Never mind the illnesses of our age. I was just pointing it out.
People frequently use their real names for ID here in byte world. I used to be, corvus corax .Just too many ravens. That was when I used MS. Since turning to Apple this hirundine, has been my chosen name. To remind myself; to remind myself, of trying to be fast and accurate. Like a swallow. My taiji teacher was named Fei Yan. Flying swallow. Now how perfect was that, for me? Hirundinae, the swallow family of birds. To this point only one person has ever got it, without explanation. So feel free to use either, or none at all.
Cheers Jamie
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