Smart Steps to Taking a Good Mirror Photo
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
All over the internet pictures of people taking their
photographs before bathroom or bedroom mirrors are a common thing to see. By
simply googling ‘taking photo by mirror’ you’ll get tons and tons of photos of
people snapping before a mirror, some decent and cute, others wild, insane or
dirty; it all depends on each person’s objective for taking the photo.
But I’ve come to notice that everybody seems top
always take the photo the same way; most don’t even think of how they could do
it without letting the device used for snapping show in the picture. It’s
become a common thing to just hold your camera, phone or ipad (rare case)
before the mirror and snap with it also showing.
However, there’s a smart way of taking the picture without
letting the snapping device show. I got Tobi, a co-worker who’s also a blogger
to model for me and demonstrate the proper way to use a mirror to snap your
picture without the device showing.
The Usual Way
Usually when people want to take
their photos, they hold the camera the way Tobi is holding it - with the camera
lens facing the mirror so that they can view themselves on the screen. The
problem with this is that your device will be in view and your picture
composition will end up giving away the fact that you used a mirror to take the
picture. Devices such as some phones and digital cameras that have flash even
make the matter worse because the flash will appear in the mirror like the
picture of the guy in glasses in the collage above.
The Smart Way
Now if Tobi held the camera differently in the
opposite direction – that is by turning the lens of the camera to face her so
that the screen faces the mirror, she can now monitor her pose on the screen as
reflected on the mirror and take her photo. If her device has a flash, it will
bounce on her instead of bouncing on the mirror. This will make the picture
even clearer as the flash is put to its actual use.
Enjoy snapping away!
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