5 Tips To Take A Good Gym Selfie With Your Smartphone
The self generation, you see them everywhere. In the free weights, on the matt, in the changing and sometimes in the showers. Whether you are a selfie user or not, taking selfies is a norm in today's society. It's our way to show our passions, day to day lives on simply show off little and ask for recognition; there is nothing wrong with that.
You may be frowning your eyes when you see someone taking a selfie, or reminding everyone that you don't like selfies. However, we know that deep inside everyone secretly does it. And yes might be too.
And while there's no incorrect method to take a selfie, here are some easy tips to get the selfie skill to a new stage from a professional fitness photographer.
1. Be Confident and Aware
Have you ever felt a little embarrassed taking a gym selfie of yourself trying to flex in front of a mirror? Perhaps hiding the camera so no one can see you taking a selfie. But when you look around social media, everyone else seems to be relaxed and confident.
The hidden selfies; the one where you keep your phone below the waist and secretly flexing are the worst, you probably have some of them and never posted on Instagram because how bad they are. So next time you want to take a selfie, Ignore the environment and everyone around you and just concentrate on getting the perfect picture. Also, remember that no one is really watching; they focused on themselves and in their own bubbly. And if they do look, so what? Like they are not doing it themselves anyway.
Confidence is rule number 1 that will make or break your selfie. So show string spirit and F what everyone else thinks.
2. Check Your Background
It may sound like an easy tip, but trust me, it's important. Often double check you're surrounding if you don't want to end up taking a great selfie, only to figure out that snapped someone behind you.
Another thing you should be aware of is to try to position yourself in front of a clean background. Nothing worst to take a photo and notice a funny barbell sticking out of your head make you look like two horns.
3. Use photo editing tools
Every photographer editing and enhancing photos in photoshop or Lightroom. Although we all trying to stay in the boundaries of 'natural look', giving your photos, some touch-ups are not cheating. If you want your selfie to pop, you need to use filter or Manuel adjustments to your taste. The most common tool fitness Photographer use enhance the physic is contrast and clarity (structure).
Those two effects will define the shadow and enhance your muscle. However, don't overdo it or you lose the authenticity of your image.
4. Concentrate on Lighting
Lighting is everything in photography. As a fitness photographer, our way to create dramatic high contrast images is with lighting manipulation, that why we use studio strobe and reflections.
However, you came to train and not for a photoshoot, but only want to take a quick snap of yourself and post in online. So your only way relies on natural lighting and ambient lighting of the gym. Natural, the gym lighting from the ceiling will already give you the bend of shadows under your abs, however, stating near a white wall will reflect the light and can help to highlight your face and make it look softer. Keep your head tilted to the direction of the light to have natural and detailed photos.
5. Use the Telelens on your phone.
Today everyone smartphone equipped with a long lens (or telens) that we photogra[her use for portraits. The reason it makes the photo so much better is when the build-in software that can create a high aperture effect, which blaring your background and put the attention on you. Those photos make you stand out and isolate you from the background.
6. Ask a friend
This one can be tricky, but if you have a friend or gym body that don't mind taking a photo of you once in a while, then use them. Taking full-length photos of yourself and have the flexibility to change the angle of the pictures is way better than taking a selfie or a mirror selfie.
Summary:
Hopefully, this guide will help you when you are taking a Gym selfie. It does not matter how your selfie turns out, have fun with it because there's no reason to take it too seriously. Selfie is just a way to show the world your hard work in sweat or maybe just keeping it to yourself as a memory.
Whatever the reasons are, have a good work out next time you in the gym, and don't forget to use those tip to get better selfies.