A small daily gimmick to reinvent your selfies. – CHRISTOPHE SEFRIN / 20 MINUTES
- With the Coronavirus and the confinement imposed on the French since Tuesday, March 17, our smartphones are machine gunning and we are taking more selfies.
- In addition to the technique to improve the quality, a few tips and tricks will also allow you to have fun while making your self-portraits.
- Daily gimmick, thematic to decline … without forgetting sharing with our loved ones can also transform selfies.
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The containment imposed on the French since Monday March 17 due to coronavirus plunges us a little more into the heart of social networks. Everyone has an increasing need to tell their stories, to tell themselves and to share the moment lived. Ideal for this, the selfie can also reinvent itself. 20 minutes offers you some tips so that an ordinary self-portrait has other virtues …
No group selfie
This is the absolute rule: even if you are confined to the family, you do not stick to each other to get into the frame. Independent selfies remain to be preferred if only to set a good example on social networks.
Take care of the technique
Take the opportunity to take well-framed photos (you have plenty of time to take as many shots as necessary, eh!). Optimize the light and avoid the backlighting that the currently sunny days make reappear.
Remote trigger
If you have a connected watch, such as an Apple Watch with its iPhone, nothing could be easier to start taking a selfie from your watch, a few meters away: the tocante can act as a remote control. This allows you to widen the field of vision of your smartphone and bring in the decor of the exterior elements (a deserted street when you go to make your purchases, you in the foreground with the queue at the entrance of a store of ‘food, etc)…
Failing to be equipped with a connected watch, the opportunity is dreamed to bring out your old selfie stick from the closet.
Share your life in confinement
The days are getting longer and longer. Take the opportunity to share your discoveries and tips to occupy your time. Take a picture of yourself, for example, by cooking a new recipe for this pasta, which you have abundantly filled in your cupboards. Check the status of your bathroom tissue day by day. More interesting: share the books you devour, the stack of DVDs brought up from the cellar you eat, etc. Photograph yourself on your balcony at 8 p.m. when you applaud caregivers and share.
Date your selfies
Confinement Day # 10, 20, 30… A small panel at your side or the addition of a text overlay of your self-portrait freezes the picture over time. And to see over the days (weeks …) the evolution of your mine less and less happy, to notice your weight gain … Or your returning optimism and the good effects of the little diet that you had the good idea of perform during this period.
Multiply shipments
Your loved ones, parents and grandparents also isolated need to be reassured and to break the loneliness and boredom. Several daily selfies (of yourself, of your children …) are bound to be welcome to reduce isolation. This does not exclude a benevolent call as often as possible.
Have fun !
Find a gimmick, a theme, a running gag and apply them to the envy in your daily self-portraits: photograph yourself every day with a new fringe found in the closet; a new grimace…
This will help you build up a little logbook step by step.
Make a flip book
Idea by the way: make a flip book (you know, those little books that come alive when you flick through them with your thumb). To do this, take a daily selfie always in the same place, only changing the pose very slightly. After confinement, you can print your photos, connect them and keep a funny memory of this not funny period.
Clean your smartphone
Whenever possible, clean your smartphone regularly using a microfiber cloth and a non-abrasive, alcohol-free product.
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