How to Take Dynamic Self-portraits at Home, Using an iPhone

Asa (strange but explicable) hobby, I’ve been taking selfies over the past few weeks. This hobby began in September, when I encountered a spot of interesting lighting in the hallway bathroom at my parents’ house. It was late afternoon, and the sun was shining through a small window and bouncing off the bathroom door, illuminating the bathroom with both direct and diffused lighting. I was at the sink, when I leaned forward and noticed in the mirror the direct sunlight acting as a spotlight on the left side of my face, and the reflection of the sunlight off the door acting as a bounce light on the right side of my face. So I grabbed my iPhone, opened the camera, set the camera mode to Portrait, and snapped this dramatic selfie: <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*SCg7CTPlZ8jVERRMwZEJOA.jpeg" style="height:934px; width:700px" /> I was fascinated by this image — not because it’s an image of myself (silly goose), but because it’s a good, dynamic, interesting image that I took on a whim, in natural lighting, in my parents’ hallway bathroom, using the front-facing camera on my phone — meaning, I was able to capture this image in seconds, using common tools and in an environment that was already available to me. And this excited me, and it got me thinking, What else can I do with this camera? <a href="https://mitchellferrin.medium.com/how-to-take-dynamic-self-portraits-at-home-using-an-iphone-eee17f7eb39e">Read More</a>