I feel like these images are successful because for them all I took law of thirds, point of view, and depth of field into consideration. when I put them into photo shop i made sure that the images were not too over or under exposed and that the colors were evenly distributed. In my second picture (I consider my dog to be a person and therefore he is my favorite person) I tried to take the image from above to have a more interesting point of view. The way he is looking up at the camera gives the viewer a connection to him. If I were someone's favorite person I would like to be photographed candidly. I like more naturally occurring self portraits, at the same time tho I would like them to be compositionally dynamic and interesting.