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| An early morning photo taken at Tower of London. I look half-asleep and have the London Bridge coming out out my head at the top. |
I was recently was going through some old photos from my solo trip to the UK in 2008. Oh boy... I just realized how badly I took photos of myself.
While I loved my handy Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500 because it was small, light and so easy to use, it did have it's limitations. Now that I have a DSLR, I am spoiled. Point-and-shoot cameras just don't make you look good on camera.
See the evidence here:
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| I look like I'm hating the wind and hair in my eyes. Dealing with a super windy day at Stonehenge. And I'm covering up part of the rocks. |
And perhaps, even if I had a DSLR camera to take self-portraits, I wouldn't be able to take decent photos. There's always the problem with positioning a photo so that you don't have an interrupted background view or something strange growing from your head. Such as this photo:
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| I'm squinting, have a guy photobombing my shot, and an arm with some sharp object coming out of my head - Buckingham Palace, 2008. |
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| This one isn't so bad, but it was take number five before I got the Pulteney Bridge in Bath in the photo. |
Using an iPhone 4G to take self-photos isn't always the best either. I prefer not to use the reverse camera as I end up looking not like myself at all (but rather me in reverse!). You also don't see what you are photographing, so several shots are necessary to ensure the perfect photo. I used my iPhone for self-photos during my Amsterdam trip. A bit better than the UK photos but still not the greatest.
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| At Vondelpark in Amsterdam - November 2011 |
Now back to practicing those self-photos...
You certainly have picked up some great land marks and there is no doubt you were there!!! Well done for actually taking the pics as I seem to think I could remember all the places I visit.
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