16 Weeks and 5 Days

Your self portrait is way easier on the eyes than the ones painted by our pal Frida :)

The art of self-portraiture:

1. Get a tripod. Or you can rig up some other way to hold the camera. A stack of books on the kitchen stool will work.

2. Put the camera on the tripod, stack of books, whatever. Take the lens cap off, point the camera to where you're going to sit, and set up your shot.

3. On the left hand side of the camera body, there's a little button labeled with a picture of a circle with a hand in it, like a second hand. That's your delayed shutter release.

4. Push that button and, while the camera beeps, walk gracefully over to your chair, sit down, and smile.

5. After the camera goes off, go to step one and repeat as necessary. A white coffee filter draped over the pop-up flash does a lot to eliminate that blown-out effect.