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Santa Teresa Park Selfies, 12/20/17 by Ronald Horii
I went to Santa Teresa Park to take some selfies on a clear winter (almost) day. I rarely take selfies. I never use my smartphone's front camera like a Kardashian. I also don't own selfie stick. Those closeup selfies tend to be non-flattering. They make your nose look too big. Those pictures also look amateurish. The ideal distance for portraits is 10 feet or more. If you're alone, it's best to set your camera on a tripod or something similar and use its self-timer or remote control.
This was actually a photography exercise. I had my Olympus OM-D E-M10 mirrorless camera mounted on a tripod. I was controlling it with the Olympus OI.Share app. on my new Moto E4 smartphone. With the smartphone app, I could see on my smartphone what the camera sees. I could set the self-timer, pick the focus point, and adjust the exposure. I could also control the camera mode and set the aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. I shot all the pictures in Program Mode, with manual exposure offset. I could touch the screen on my phone to pick the focus point (me). After shooting the picture, I could review it on my phone and zoom in on it. The sunny shots were tricky. My face tended to get over-exposed with the auto-exposure settings, so I had to manually adjust the exposure down.
The Olympus app has some other fancy features that I haven't used:
http://app.olympus-imaging.com/oishare/en/
I went to Santa Teresa Park to take some selfies on a clear winter (almost) day. I rarely take selfies. I never use my smartphone's front camera like a Kardashian. I also don't own selfie stick. Those closeup selfies tend to be non-flattering. They make your nose look too big. Those pictures also look amateurish. The ideal distance for portraits is 10 feet or more. If you're alone, it's best to set your camera on a tripod or something similar and use its self-timer or remote control.
This was actually a photography exercise. I had my Olympus OM-D E-M10 mirrorless camera mounted on a tripod. I was controlling it with the Olympus OI.Share app. on my new Moto E4 smartphone. With the smartphone app, I could see on my smartphone what the camera sees. I could set the self-timer, pick the focus point, and adjust the exposure. I could also control the camera mode and set the aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. I shot all the pictures in Program Mode, with manual exposure offset. I could touch the screen on my phone to pick the focus point (me). After shooting the picture, I could review it on my phone and zoom in on it. The sunny shots were tricky. My face tended to get over-exposed with the auto-exposure settings, so I had to manually adjust the exposure down.
The Olympus app has some other fancy features that I haven't used:
http://app.olympus-imaging.com/oishare/en/
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