Are these selfies?
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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...
I didn't think taking a photo with a timer was a selfie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...
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.I didn't think taking a photo with a timer was a selfie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/arti...
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
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 The abbreviation 'selfie' is just an annoying fad that will be lost in time within a few years. Self portraits will continue as normal.
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
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