sel-fportrait - focus

Hello everyone. I am very new to photography and I am trying to practice the camera settings, light, etc on myself but somehow I really struggle to get a focus right. When I set my camera, I don’t know where to focus and when I finally run in front of the camera, all my photos are blurred. I have tried Al Servo, focus on something in the same distance as I would be..nothing seems to work. Please help me with this, it's getting a bit frustrating to see all those beautiful self-portraits on flickr and I can't even get the basics right. Many thanks. ester

Use the search feature. It will be your new friend on the forum

you can:

A) Buy a wireless trigger (or even wired will work)

B) Place a spare light stand in front of the camera, focus on it, once focused, carefully turn the auto focus Off, turn the camera timer on, press the shutter, run and move the light stand out of the frame and take its place before the timer goes off

I agree...manual focus is your friend in self portraits...