Shooting a successful self portrait with a phone

…As I sit here in early 2014 I'm basking in the joy of the fact that my native…tongue now officially has a new word that I can use freely and that word is selfie.…The Oxford English dictionary made it an official word last year.…Since then, the President of the United States has been seen shooting selfies.…So, I no longer feel nerdy or insecure about shooting selfies.…In fact, I'm embracing selfies and now applying actual gear to the process.…Hi, my name is Ben Long.…

And this week on The Practicing Photographer I just want to give you…some tips, because I'm tired of seeing bad selfies out in the world.…And it's time for us all to start doing a better job now that…it's an official word, and since the leader of the free world is shooting them.…There's not that much to a selfie.…Obviously, you need to get the phone in front of…you, point it back at you, and take a picture.…That said, there are things you can do to get better selfies, and they are pretty…much just the same things you would do…if you were shooting a picture of somebody else.…