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Using a mirror is one way the camera-phone era has figured out how to feature the selfing photographer prominently, i.e., full length rather than just as a head. Social media is rife with examples. For amusement purposes, using a mirror also accommodates my recent thing about featuring Cinematic Framing in the Attendance Photo.

Jason’s brilliant suggestion for this week was to use the store’s shoe mirror as our frame. The problem is that none of us had taken a mirror selfie before (or had and chose not to explain to me how to do it). One thing I immediately realized was that holding the camera phone in front of my face to view the shot did the obvious by positioning the camera to obscure my face. I’d seen mirror-selfie pictures with the selfer holding the phone down by their waist to uncover their face, but when I lowered mine, I couldn’t tell if everyone else was in the picture. Clearly that’s not such a big problem if the photo subject is just yourself and you’re in front of a mirror sized to show your full length, rather than just your lower legs.

 

 

Since the purpose of the attendance photo isn’t really to show how everyone looks every week (which is pretty much the same as the week before), but is about the, uh, attendance, I gave up on making sure my face was visible and just went for the shot. All the regulars understand the weekly drill, so neither Sylvia nor Jim were worried about how much of their faces were visible. And we got what I wanted: framing, attendance, and amusement.
-CtCloser (Calvinthe), “Negative split or positive splat” #dothedue

FINE PRINT ¶Likeness used with permission. ¶Text and photos (unless otherwise stated): Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-posted: (1) Facebook JRC Growlers Group Run (2025’02’19’W Run Message), (2) GGR email list, (3) Cerebruns by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Cerebrun with added caption and picture.

 

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