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Now, this seems like a no-brainer, but I didn’t think about it.

Have you ever tried taking a photo of your self without a mirror with the iPhone? I recently tried and it’s not as easy to pull off as you would think. The button to take the actual photo is a software key on the screen as you know. Lining up the iPhone with your mug while holding the iPhone at a good distance so your head isn’t chopped off and taking the photo at the same time is a challenge.  Luckily, MacWorld’s iPhone Central has the answer and it’s much simpler than you might expect.

The iPhone’s shutter control doesn’t trigger when you press the camera button, it triggers when you release it. So the simple trick for taking better iPhone self-portraits is to press and hold the camera button, then turn the phone around and snap the picture by releasing your finger. It still doesn’t always work perfectly, but it’s definitely an improvement.

I just tried that out and it works fine. I never really thought about that.

Image Credit: Toma01’s Photography