Comments on: I'm so vain, I think this pictures about me

Question: I'm so vain, I think this pictures about me

TuxHeDoh — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:13:55 -0800

Is there a commonly used term, slang or otherwise, besides self-portrait, to describe a picture taken of yourself, by yourself, holding the camera at arms length?

By: boreddusty

boreddusty — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:18:09 -0800

I've heard these referred to as "Myspace(y) shots" due to their abundance on the site.

By: teleskiving

teleskiving — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:19:43 -0800

Urban Dictionary offers netdiseased.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:21:39 -0800

I've seen "selfpic" used

By: aramaic

aramaic — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:24:06 -0800

I have also seen "selfpic" used.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:24:22 -0800

Well, in some contexts, ISM.[NSFW].

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:26:31 -0800

I think of them as camwhorin's.

By: TuxHeDoh

TuxHeDoh — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:36:42 -0800

Wow I hadn't even thought about the myspace/camwhore angle.... I started doing this as a teen, whenever I'd see someone elses camera sitting around, pick it up and snap a picture of myself..... and now with digital some of my favorite pictures of my wife and myself are the same technique. I was hoping for a more endearing term, mostly for tagging on flickr.

By: kmennie

kmennie — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:41:41 -0800

Not quite, but of interest: Internet disease.

By: gurple

gurple — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:52:20 -0800

I do that all the time on vacations, and for some reason I call it autophotography.

By: thehmsbeagle

thehmsbeagle — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:00:45 -0800

I call them "vain myspace pictures" and people know exactly what I'm talking about.

By: nakedsushi

nakedsushi — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:19:41 -0800

I like to call it The Angles

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:57 -0800

myface

By: thebrokenmuse

thebrokenmuse — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:03:16 -0800

myspace pic

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:10:15 -0800

I've seen it referred to as a fat girl angle shot, but that may be a specific rather than general case. I am neither endorsing nor decrying such a label, simply relaying it.

By: toomanyplugs

toomanyplugs — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:15:56 -0800

we call them Holdouts, and like TuxHeDoh, some of our best shots come from that technique.

It helps to have 3' long arms, too...

By: Elsa

Elsa — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:24:26 -0800

On a recent trip in Europe, my teenaged niece held her camera at arm's length to snap a photo of herself with palace ruins in the background and intoned drolly, "MySpace castle!"

So yeah, I'm thinking "MySpace photo" has entered the vernacular.

By: damnjezebel

damnjezebel — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:42:16 -0800

myspace angles?

By: doift

doift — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:13:14 -0800

I've heard the term "helicopter shot" used to describe the specific angle in which the camera is held fairly high to eliminate double chins. etc.

By: yodelingisfun

yodelingisfun — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:14:51 -0800

We refer to it as "the pose" and even have a flickr group for it.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:32:34 -0800

The shot that doift refers to is what I'd heard specifically called the "fat girl angle".

By: rob511

rob511 — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:17:03 -0800

TuxHeDoh, you might check out the flickr ALSPE* group.
*Arm's Length Self-Portrait Experience

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:43:41 -0800

MySpace Picture.

By: markovitch

markovitch — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:11:03 -0800

selfshot