5 Best Locations to Take Advanced Selfies
Hello, and welcome to my rendition of what I learned from Sorelle Amore’s Selfie University. If you are eager to step up your picture game, and want to show art within your photos, have no fear! This blog post is designated to help you find the best locations to take advanced selfies. You will learn throughout this post: what you will need for your photo shoot, some advice from the Selfie Queen herself, and my 5 best locations to take advanced selfies. Keep scrolling through to learn some new things, and hopefully change your perspective on how you take your selfies. Let’s get started!
What You Will Need for your Personal Photo Shoot:
your phone or a camera
a phone tripod
a remote for your phone tripod
some music to help the mood
a boss attitude
Some phone tripods I recommend:
YunTeng Selfie Stick (the one I currently use)
Photo Credit: Sorelle Amore’s Advanced Selfies Blog Page
Tips from the Advanced Selfie Queen, Sorelle Amore
This wonderful individual has coined the term “advanced selfie”, basically taking self portraits to the next level.
So what are Sorelle Amore’s best locations for advanced selfies? Here are the ones she mentions in her Selfie University:
Beautiful backgrounds
Beautiful homes
Beautiful interior design
Nature always wins
Beaches by sunset
Poolside by sunset
ANYTHING BY SUNSET
If you’re interested in enrolling to Sorelle Amore’s Selfie University, follow this link to sign up today! You will get lifetime access to this amazing course, where Sorelle is constantly adding new videos to learn from.
Also, take a look at her amazing website + her YouTube channel. You won’t regret it.
All photos shown in this section are shown on her Advanced Selfies blog page.
A Local Garden
Whether it is a community garden, some random flowers you saw on the side of the road, or the garden section of Lowe’s, nature can do wonders when taking selfies.
For this photo, I wanted to accentuate the flowers in the lettering of my shirt with the flowers in the background. In a way, we are both blooming with joy. And that is why I love posing in front of flowers/nature - it just gives me such a positive vibe that I want to share with others via my Instagram feed.
A challenge for you: make a pose in your local garden that isn’t your typical “smell the flowers” pose. Maybe pose as a dance move, or a jumping pose. Tell a story within your photo, and others will stop scrolling to look at your photo. Trust me on this!
A Front Door
When in doubt - front door it out. That might not be an actual saying, but it’s applicable in this setting. There is a lot of beauty in front doors and where they lead to.
For this photo, my parents’ front door was looking so beautiful on 4th of July weekend that I had to snag a photo. I had to try a couple different poses to make sure that my body parts were still in proportion to the rest of me.
Props are also a great tool to use, when you don’t know what to do with your hands. I tried using my sunglasses in the most logical sense - looking up at the sky whilst holding them. Try to make the most sense of the props that you are using within your photos. It will help you portray a certain story in that image, and make you stand out against others in your feed.
A Scenic Sidewalk
These trees across my work on this sidewalk were looking especially beautiful during the morning hours, when the fog is still fading away.
I loved complimenting the tiny bits of green in my kimono with the luscious, green background behind me. Making sense of my background, I tried to take a walking shot and look at the area around me. This puts some life into the photo and makes it look candid.
In reality, I have the clicker in my right hand and I am holding the clicker down to take photos in a shutter series. Taking photos this way lets you decide which frame looks best for you, and which action looks less blurry.
Pro tip: use your editing skills and bring out the greens in your outfit, so that they match the background more seamlessly. Try it yourself and let me know what you think!
Any Staircase, Indoor or Outdoor
Staircases are such an easy background to pose in front of. Whether it is indoor or outdoor, staircases create easy lines in your photo, making it more appealing to the eye for those that come across your photo.
If your background is plain, try making the photo more lively with an interesting pose or eye-catching sticker edits. Apps like Over or PicsArt allow you to put in graphics and edit around the object of the photo. Both Over and PicsArt are paid apps, but there is a trial period for each that is free.
Canva is another great app/website that gives you backgrounds, stickers and text to choose from. Try it out today, and download the app!
For this photo, I used the Over app and chose a graphic that matched the color in my top. Then, I used the erase tool to eliminate the graphic that overlapped my body. In the end, it looks like I am standing on the wave graphic, while also sitting on the stairs.
Your Local Greenway, Park or Body of Water
Interacting with your environment will make you stand out on your feed, while other people are posting in front of blank walls with zero expression on their face.
I am guilty of posing in front of blank walls, but I do my best to make my pose or outfit interesting. We are taking advanced selfies, after all. We want to stand out and be different with our photos & the stories we tell through them.
For this photo, I loved how calm the wading river was at a park close to where I work. There was a place I could place my phone tripod where it wouldn’t fall over. And I had my remote trigger in my right hand, away from the camera, while I walked across the rocks and held down the camera button for shutter pictures. This tip hasn’t failed me yet!
I hope you all gained some new information from this blog post. I only aim to post quality content that I would enjoy reading, and hopefully others have the same interests as me. We are here to inspire each other, after all.
Sorelle, if you have read this blog post, just know that you gave me some major inspiration into expressing myself in a different light using these advanced selfie skills I learned from your Selfie University. Even though the term “selfie” is outplayed, you have managed to turn what could be a conceited photo, and channel it into art that no one has seen on their Instagram feed before.
Thank you Sorelle!
