How To: Take Good Quality Selfies

I'm not a professional photographer nor a model so I can't give you any "professional" tips. However, I love taking selfies and I've learned a few things in my experiences about taking photos. If you like the way my selfies look, please do continue.

P.S. All the following photos are me, myself and I.

High Megapixels 

The higher the megapixels, the clearer and larger the photo. It doesn't have to be an expensive camera. I take photos with my phone camera. It only has 5.0 Megapixels, but the clarity is good ( good enough for me ).

1.3MP

2.0MP

3.2MP

5.0MP

16.1MP

Main Camera Over Front Camera

In case you haven't notice it, If you have a front camera, it takes much lower quality photos than your main camera ( The one at the back of your phone ). I'd only use a front camera if I'm having problems with the main camera. You may not be able to get the "perfect angle" with the main camera but there's always photoshop! Right?

Lighting

The flash in your camera is never enough. Everywhere you go, carry a torch light. It's good lighting for selfies! Have you ever taken a selfie with the flash on where your face is fairer than your neck and the rest of your body? Well, shining more light on those areas will help even out your skin tone as well.

The photo on the left is me holding a camera with one and my phone with its flash on in the other. You can also see a few other people holding on to their phone's flash for more lighting too!

The photo on the right is me holding my new love for light. It's actually my dad's torchlight. Cyclists come to him to buy this light. The quality: AWESOME. Here's a link to his blog if you're interested and if you're a cyclist and you wish to find some other products, I'll drop you a link for his BBS page.

Lastly, the photo at the bottom is me under bright lighting in a photo shoot.

How did the photos turn out? Look below and see it for yourself.

Other Examples of GOOD Lighting

Purikura lights

Natural sunlight

Examples of BAD lighting

Uneven lighting / Shadows

Back light

Too dark

Too bright

Personally, I don't like lighting like the ones mentioned above. But it depends on each individual preferences. It may look artistic to others so there's no really a right or wrong.

Photoshop

It's a life saver for the perfectionists. When I do my makeup, I make sure I get my eyes to look as even as I can. Sometimes, I cheat that with photoshop. 

In the close up photos of my eye, you can see that I've dragged the ends of my eyes more downwards and removed the tiny strands of hair that were in the way.

Filters

Another fun part of photoshop are filters. They can change the feeling that your selfie gives to the viewers. The same photo can look from sweet and soft to sharp and clear. Some filters have even more fun effects.

That's all the tips I want to share for now Thank you for visiting!

Angel's First - Photo Shoot ( with Lee Kheng San )

Never would've thought my  would let me do this, but she did  And she was pretty supportive of it too  I met Mr. Photographer on   I agreed on a photo shooting session if I was free  We agreed on a date where Ru was free to go with me  got all the props in  weeks

That Morning

I planned to wake up   in the morning  so I would have the time to start packing my things for the shoot  Then Ru would come at  then we'd begin our journey Unfortunately  I over slept Grandma came into my room  asked  Your boyfriend is your. You're still sleeping  And I was like  when I heard her Stupid alarm It went off but I didn't hear it Stupid me I managed to pack up everything in  minutes then I started freaking out in the car I was hoping that I had everything I needed with but  I left my falsies  home we U-turned back

I thought we were going to be late for sure I told Lee that we would reach by   And I kept thinking that we'd get lost finding the place  But that's cause we've never been there before  Surprisingly, not only did we reach there in time  but we also had time to get ourselves   Subway  have a walk afterwards 

It Begins!

Lee came  we went up to his studio with him  Lee was arranging some stuff int eh studio  Not sure what cause I'm not the pro  I started painting my face  literally started dumping white paint on my face  I even forgot to tie my hair before painting Ru had to hold my hair up  until Lee got a big fat bucket of water  for me to wash of the paint on my hands  so that I could tie my hair  Halfway painting myself white  Lee's family came to visit him  his son saw my half done, insanely ugly makeup  Ru fell asleep too  I reminded myself of Lady GaGa's Applause cover 

I wasn't even half done when Ru woke up  After the makeup  There was still the dress  the hair  the flowers to be done  I wasn't sure on how to arrange to cloth for the outfit / dress so we struggled a bit there We worked something out in the end Ru had to run to a convenient store for  times because I forgot to bring some stuff  He even helped with the flowers which was like  trying to handle them I took a total of  hours to get myself dress  That's a new record

When I was settled  we began the shoot  There were a few background changes throughout the shoot  here are some photos of it 

It was almost  when the shoot was over We transformed be back to human  Lee had to put all the flowers back into place The white paint came off easily with water  Thank God  but I still need help from Ru in removing the paint on my back  Lee,  for messing up the cloth, the flowers, the furniture  everything else that I got paint on  also the scrapped of paint on the floor  They looked like eraser dust  

When we had almost everything back to normal  Lee treated us for   Tokyo Kitchen We talked about some modeling stuff  Cosplaying  he even mentioned Kick Starter  shared a lot of cool info with us   

The Photos

I got the time to take some photos under his cool lighting during the shoot  Lee sent me some photos that he took a few days later too 

Selfies

Credits to Lee for taking the last  shots

From Lee

Now go get your  glasses 

  

Collection

  We're not collaborating to have a collection where we take dozens of different styles of photos  putting them together  Although it would be freaking cool to do so  But what I meant by collection is that I went to collect my   his studio I'm going to collect it personally because it can't be bank-in into an account  So if you haven't figured it out yet  I'm not getting paid in cash 

  

Once again  Ru is going to meet Lee with me Only difference this time is that I'm driving so Willy is going with us too  Willy is my car  Ru woke me up in the morning with a phone call  he came to my house a while later   Then we took Willy out

We got to the studio  saw the print It was beautiful and the print itself was a work of art  I would be more than happy to share a photo of it  but you can only see the holographic effect in real life We had a chat with Lee then left for  Lee gave me another  prints that were like posters He wanted to throw them away because he thought they were imperfect He was going to get rid of them if I didn't want them I thought it'd be a waste so I took them Extra  to Lee for them Ru took one home with him  I wonder where he'll keep it

MINORI

Lee let me choose the theme  I chose Minori I  her work  I think that's she just amazing  Fangirl-ing  She's been inspiring to me for quite some time now  I couldn't get Shironuri of my mind because of her Do I sound like some creepy person on the internet now  Because she's inspired me for the theme  I'd like to dedicate a portion of this post to share some of her work

                          

Isn't she gorgeous I'm going just drop a few links here now 
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That's it for all I want to share now Thank you  I'll see you soon