My Self Portrait Plan

I plan to shoot a few of my friends for my self portrait project, and their names are Emilia, Ava, Laura, and maybe myself if all else fails. I plan to change the setting of my photos to see which one is the best, but a few ideas I had were...   

• My room
• The forest
• A playground
• The park 
• South Congress 

If I can't do any of those I'll come up with something else. Some things I will do to make the shot successful is adjust the camera to the proper Manual settings, and I want to try to play with the focus of the picture so that I can get the most out of my photos.