Are these selfies?

[Cotty]

I thought a selfie was a self-portrait taken with your own phone at arms length.

I didn't think taking a photo with a timer was a selfie

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

[Simpo Two]

Well if 'selfie' = self-portrait then they are.

[GetCarter]

Cotty said:

I thought a selfie was a self-portrait taken with your own phone at arms length.

I didn't think taking a photo with a timer was a selfie

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...

Selfies started 100+ years before camera phones... and at that time, arms length was an issue.

The abbreviation 'selfie' is just an annoying fad that will be lost in time within a few years. Self portraits will continue as normal.

Edited by GetCarter on Friday 17th October 16:08

[CB2152]

Lovely photos, but it niggles me slightly that there is not one in which they are all looking at the camera...

[Cotty]

I was wondering if that was done on purpose for some reason.

[CB2152]

I think it probably was, but it still grates slightly

[onesickpuppy]

D'ya reckon she was getting double tapped?

[Don]

onesickpuppy said:

D'ya reckon she was getting double tapped?

You are one sick puppy.

[Cotty]

GetCarter said:

Selfies started 100+ years before camera phones... and at that time, arms length was an issue.

The abbreviation 'selfie' is just an annoying fad that will be lost in time within a few years. Self portraits will continue as normal.

I thought the abbreviation selfie was unique to taking a picture of yourself using your mobile phone. I take it um wrong

[GetCarter]

Cotty said:

I thought the abbreviation selfie was unique to taking a picture of yourself using your mobile phone. I take it um wrong

It's just a popular phrase & shortening of self portrait. Much easier for the current tech generation who all own cameras in their phones and can post instantaneously onto social media.

From the Wiki 'selfie'

"The debut of the portable Kodak Brownie box camera in 1900 led to photographic self-portraiture becoming a more widespread technique. The method was usually with the use of a mirror and stabilizing the camera either on a nearby object or on a tripod while framing via a viewfinder at the top of the box.[3] Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna at the age of 13 was one of the first teenagers to take her own picture using a mirror to send to a friend in 1914. In the letter that accompanied the photograph, she wrote, "I took this picture of myself looking at the mirror. It was very hard as my hands were trembling."[4]

The earliest usage of the word selfie has been traced to 2002 when it first appeared in an Australian internet forum (ABC Online) on 13 September.[5] As with other new technologies, the protocols and etiquette for taking and disseminating selfies remains under development, with appropriate use a matter for consideration.[6]"

ETA - If I renamed it 'Landies" it wouldn't be any different to the Landscape photography that generations have done before me. It would just have a stupid name.

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 18th October 16:26

[thegreenhell]

CB2152 said:

Lovely photos, but it niggles me slightly that there is not one in which they are all looking at the camera...

It looks to me like that was a deliberate theme. What bothers me more is their inability to get the horizon level in the shot.

[K12beano]

Must be confusing for the general masses when they see the Canon Selphy range of printers...

[andy-xr]

I have a Selphy printer, old one from ebay, and it's great for printing selfies I've taken with my selfie stick. Bad, aint it! All true, got some ace ones from Stonehenge as well. Loads of Americans asking where they could get the stick from.