hi I'm Joe I teach photography at the
School of Visual Arts in New York if
you're going to shoot a selfie don't use
a big camera like this you're asking to
use it as a gravity checker if you try
to hold it up in the air with one hand
like that even if you can't hold it you
can't hold it steady enough to keep the
motion of your own hands from making
your picture blurry you use your
point-and-shoot camera and you hold it
above your eyeline a bit
everybody looks better when you when you
point it down on them a little bit get
the lens kind of lined up bring your
chin down very slightly and hit the
button don't be afraid to take a lot of
pictures because it's very hard to line
the camera up this way when you can't
look through the viewfinder don't be
afraid to work through a few angles and
even better if you use in a real camera
you can shoot verticals people are
vertical don't try to tip your chin up
all the way where the camera is the
point is to keep it a little bit above
your eye line usually you set the lens a
little bit on the wide side so that if
you're off one way or another you're not
cropping out your half of your head or
your ears or something like that if
you're using your phone to take your
selfie and you're looking in the mirror
don't look at the screen on the phone
once you get the thing framed up look at
yourself in the mirror and then hit the
button on the phone so that the picture
happens then and those are some tips for
taking selfies