Re: Self Takes

[Chesh]

sweet as matey... will take a few pics of me sat there pretending to hold a carp lol ...............................in the garden

[peebee]

to set your distance from camera to subject, use 2 banksticks, setup your camera on your tripod or whatever, then stick the banksticks in the ground so they show up in your viewfinder at each side of the frame, you need to have the banksticks just wide enough apart so that you and the fish can fit between them and try to get them so that top of the bankstick, (use storm poles really) are just above your head when in the posing position, then put a 3rd bankstick in the middle where your face and fish will be this is the point of focus, hang a bag, magazine or anything the camera will focus on, position your camera and tripod so that you frame the banksticks set the focus, mark the spot for your camera, so it's in the same position when you take the shot. Lay all the banksicks on the ground remove the middle bankstick out of the way.If you keep all the settings on the camera and don't alter them you just have to crouch between the 2 remaining banksticks to frame the shot and have it in focus if you know about apature settings and depth of field bear this in mind if your camera has a landscape setting use this to keep everything into focus the portrait mode will give a shallower depth of field and you might end up with your face in focus but the front of the fish blurred or vise versa
Easy init lol