So in terms of equipment, obviously, we're going to need an android or smartphone, I'm gonna be showing you everything on an iPhone, this is a iPhone six s plus, you don't need a six s plus, any iPhone will do or any relatively modern smartphone as long as you've got the front facing camera. So you can see yourself when you're taking your picture. You've got everything you need, so we're going to need that. And everything we're going to need is we're going to need a selfie stick. Now, we can't really get around this part you might get around it if you're really clever. And if you've got any really clever solutions of how to replace this on a really, really tight budget, then please share them in the project area.

Share some photos of what you've done, how you got around this, but once you see how we use it, you'll understand Why we're saying you need a selfie, stick me and get a good one, then nice expensive seven, eight pounds. And then you can have lots of fun, do lots of portraits, good little investment, just make sure you look at the reviews, buy it on Amazon somewhere like that, look at the reviews and make sure you get the ones they've got good quality, sort of things, you don't need a Bluetooth one, I just standard one because we're not going to be using this as a trigger because these normally have little triggers on here on the front. And that's what this, these cables are for here. Put that in and then you can press take a picture of stuff, we're not gonna be using that and you'll understand why in a second.

In fact, what we are going to be using as our trigger on the iPhone is we're going to be using our headphones. So we can actually use this as a release, a quick release. And if you're on an iPhone, that's great, I think Don't have an Android. So don't know if you have the same functionality. If not, you'll have to use a timer function on your camera. But this is going to be the absolute optimum thing.

So make sure you've got your iPhone earbuds ready, because we're going to use this here to take a photo and I noticed works on iPhone six and six s plus and fives. Not sure if it works on early ones to check that yourself. If it doesn't, you'll have to use the timer on your camera, so we're going to need to use those. Now the other thing you can you're gonna have to have is some bungee cords. And these are very simple is a little top hole in court, but they're very, very useful and you'll see later we're going to show you how to use these. And we're essentially going to create a tripod using our selfie stick and these bungee cords.

So you can do that. This again you can get creative if you don't want to buy some bungee cords. You could just use some hair bands. You know if you're a young man, go and steal your sister's hair bands I'm sure she won't mind. You know if you're young girl you should have hair bands anyway but something like this but bungee cords are really strong and your camera's not gonna get damaged when we use this technique. So I recommend this.

You could use string you can use tape, but this is the optimum so if you can invest in some a couple of bungee cord obviously you can go to extremes. This is a GorillaPod with an iPhone, smartphone attachment. Now these are great fun if you're gonna do a lot of smartphone iPhone photography. You know you might want to pop out and spend 3040 pounds on one of these. They are a lot of fun. And I will be doing a future course showing you how to do lots of different stuff with this So keep your eye out for those, but these can be a very good investment but for this course I would actually recommend the selfie stick.

Although this if you want to do selfie portraits outside is going to be much more versatile, but we're going to be concentrating on taking a selfie portrait indoors using natural light window light, the selfie sticks and bungee cords. And another piece of equipment which we haven't mentioned here is some type of table leg or support. Now what I'm going to be using in this course is to film because I'm in the studio, I'm going to use something I have on hand. Let me just show you what that is. This is a mini version, I'm going to be using a much bigger one. This is what's called a stick in a cap.

Now, you don't need this. All you need is a stall or a chair with an upright And then what we can then do is we're going to take our selfie stick, we're going to attach it to whatever upright we use, don't need one of these. And then we're just going to lash that off with a bungee cord method, we're just going to tie that off. And that is going to give us a stable base and put the camera away from us which is going to be important later on. Obviously, this is a sticking Akan is basically a piece of concrete in a tin can with a stick in it, you stick the stick at the back of the candle in the middle if you decide to make one of these yourself. This is a mini version because I'm a commercial photographer.

I've got loads of these are so handy. I use these for small product shoots. I'm going to use them a lot much larger one with a bigger base. But like I said, you don't need all I'm trying to show you here is we're going to flash Selfie stick to this. And that's why we need a bungee cord or something similar. Now you can use tape with anything to get residue, you could tie off, that's gonna work as well.

But the thing with a bungee stick is when you need to move it. Because it's elastic, we can adjust the stick up and down a little bit. So that's a little top tip there for you, you're going to need to attach your selfie stick to a chair or something that's an upright that you can use in your image. Now we're going to be using Snapseed software for the editing. So we're going to show you how to do some really simple basic portraiture, editing snap seed is completely free. It's available on Android and on iOS.

So make sure you go and download that ready for the course. Absolutely brilliant piece of software owned by Google developed by a team called Nick software. Really, really, really good. I've been creating software for editing For a very long time, phenomenal piece of software if you don't already have it, we're going to be using that. Like I said, make sure you've downloaded that, so that when we get to the editing section, you can follow along