{"id":1420,"date":"2019-01-17T17:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2020-03-23T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:26:34","slug":"the-number-one-way-to-spice-up-your-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/2019\/01\/17\/the-number-one-way-to-spice-up-your-selfies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number One Way to Spice Up Your Selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a simple and effective way to spice up your selfies, especially travel selfies (or even if you’re social distancing<\/a>): Look for a reflection.<\/b><\/p>\n

For instance, when I was at the famed Sydney Opera House, I could have done the usual selfie thing, trying to poke my head into a shot, fumbling around until my face and the structure wound up in the frame at the same time. Instead, I aimed my camera at a set of large windows and ended up with this:<\/p>\n

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Reflection Selfie in Sydney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s me, at the Opera House.<\/p>\n

Or when I was flying out of JFK once and wanted to show people what it was like, again I found some glass:<\/p>\n

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Reflection Selfie at JFK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So the next time you want to take a selfie, try something special and look for a reflecting surface. (As an added bonus, now you can use a real camera<\/a> to take the shot if you want, and even with your phone you can use the usually-better rear lens.)<\/p>\n

Here are two more examples:<\/p>\n

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Reflection Selfie at a Hotel in Jerusalem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Reflection Selfie at a Hotel in the Negev<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Social Distancing<\/a><\/h3>\n

Even if you can’t travel, reflection selfies are a great tool at home, too. Just find something reflective:<\/p>\n

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Selfie in a Starbucks Cup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

or wait until an amphibian ascends your window at night:<\/p>\n

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Selfie (with frog)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a simple and effective way to spice up your selfies, whether you’re traveling the world or stuck at home. Look for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[193,194,196,195],"section":[],"destination":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-technique","tag-selfie","tag-selfies","tag-social-distancing","tag-travel-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}