When I took this picture of myself, I used a setting in my camera that blurred the background and even erased part of the frame of my glasses. It is an interesting setting to play around with but I found the end result to be way too close. It signifies egotistic qualities to take a self portrait that is huge and way up close. I'd rather portray a more modest affect in my self portrait than this hey look at me, and look up my nose, while you're at it.