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Try this link to photosig (a photo critique site) - it will take you straight into the portrait section.

good luck.

First of all, it's ideas. No R's.

http://aerten.deviantart.com/

Check out her work for inspiration. She does some amazing self portraits!

Hope you have a tripod. If not, you should invest in maybe a cheap $30 one. Use the timer on your camera. I'm not sure if you realize this or not(most people don't), but you will not get great self portraits by holding the camera above your head and making a weird face. You'll just look silly, average and amateur.

Incorporate some things in your self portraits that reflect your personality. The more it expresses your personality the better it will come out. I did a silly self portrait of a barrel of monkeys climbing down from my nose and everyone loves it! Try some silly things with toys but also try evoking other emotions.

I did a quick search and found this website with some great tips!

http://photodoto.com/im-ready-for-my-closeup-6-met...

I hope some of these things helped you a bit!

There is no better way to get ideas than to familiarize yourself with what artists are doing now, and have done in the past. Remember that creativity is a recombination of elements and ideas that already exist, and that all new art is based on past artists. So I think that Masters of Photography and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography sites are great places to start.

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/

http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/

Hope this helps!

You might want to search Flickr (flickr.com) and the other photo sharing / storage sites to see what others have done to give you some ideas.

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also try flickr