Taking photographs for HNT
Saturday, June 27th, 2009In the 21st Century taking naughty pictures is relatively easy. Digital cameras have revolutionised photography. Of course I was a photographer back in the days of film, with ID11 and Hypo and darkrooms.
Modern folk don’t know they are born! /grumpyoldman.
It’s simple to take pictures if there are two people, one to pose: “I’m ready for my close up now.” and one to shoot: “Smile, say cheese.”
But what if there ARE two of you but you both want to be in the shot? Self timer to the rescue? NAH!
I have a much better solution.
In fact I have three:
1) On my elderly Olympus DSLR there is a stop frame facility, it will take a picture repeatedly at a set interval. The shortest interval is 60 seconds, which is quite a long time if you are just posing, but a short time if you are playing or having sex.
2) I also have a remote control for the Olympus, this works quite well but I have just discovered an even better version.
2a) Apple iPod Touch, A Macbook and a wireless network. There is a application on the Mac called Photobooth, it takes pictures using the built in camera, but it also recognises external (read ‘better quality’) cameras. On the iPod Touch there is an app called DoIt. (Hehe good name.) The DoIt app can control the Photobooth shutter over a wireless network, you don’t even need to have a wireless network as the MacBook can create it’s own local network, so you could do this in the middle of a field on the edge of nowhere. Photobooth has a 3 second delay before it goes click, time enough for the photographer/poseur to hide the iPod.
3) Use a mirror. I think it is quite acceptable for the camera to be in the shot when photographing in a mirror. I was experimenting with this a few days back and it was working quite well. My main problem is the lack of a large mirror. If you take a look at the Picture Of The Day on ishotmyself.com very often the photos are taken in a mirror. (Sod’s law will dictate that the day the reader of this blog looks it will be a mirrorless shot, but never mind.)
So there you have it, the JMRPT guide to self pervy expression with a camera.



