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So you want to look great in your photos, but after years of taking grim, mug-shot passport photos, you’ve forgotten how to smile. Fear not! Ohio-based photographer Jodee Ball recommends these six tips to transform your photos from police-station photo-lineups into stylish, magazine covers.
First, strike a carefree pose. Shake that guilt out of your shoulders! Second, turn your body three quarters away from the camera; this will make you harder to identify if you are in a police-lineup. Third, lower-yours hands. You’re not being held-up, after all. Fourth, lower your shoulders and fifth, bend your knee. Finally, tilt your head slightly, and voila, you’re a model!
More info: jpballphotography.com (h/t: designyoutrust)
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Strike a carefree pose
Turn your body away from the camera by about three quarters
Be careful with your hands
Lower your shoulders
Bend your knee
Tilt your head slightly
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Luspea 9 years ago
There should be the same facial expression on both photos to really show the difference
MarcoFragomeni 9 years ago
"..after years of taking grim, mug-shot passport photos, you’ve forgotten how to smile.." of course facial expression is involved
Load More Replies... Nanna 9 years ago
To be honest, especially the last one, it looked better without the tilted head. It depends a lot in the persons figure/face how to pose. And also how you place the light/flash. As well as what mood you want in the picture. But I think a lot of the poses are stanard stock-photo poses. On the last picture, tilting her head makes her nose look bigger. But that could be fixed with a different angle from the flash/light.
JenniferDziura 9 years ago
Uh... The poses on the left are the ones where she looks direct, assertive, and confident. The ones on the right are the ones with askance, submissive poses. Wanna look honestly a little basic? Do the stuff on the right.
KristinBarretoRodgers 9 years ago
Strike a carefree pose...looks like you're trying to fart, in a carefree way!
BiancaFrancescaMatig-a 9 years ago
I don't think anybody needs this.. Every person is different, so you can't have everyone to do the same and expect the same results! You are supposed to have fun while taking pictures not worrying about the angles! Just have fun! You are keeping a memory after all! :D
Diana Saballos 9 years ago
I'll either never remember these tips, or won't execute them well, thus never be photogenic *le sigh* ????????
SallyGillies 9 years ago
Very enlightening. I usually try to get out of having my picture taken but now I'll get my husband to take some with the "new" me! thanks for posting.
melmagicspell 9 years ago
I think its very good and always worth trying out. They are rules which can be adhered to and then broken. But is it not just for women. Narrowing the body and accentuating the eyes is good for a woman but for a man is it not that he should look larger on the shoulders still high cheekbones but a balanced jaw. A square on pose but relaxed etc? When you see them down a catwalk the guys walk like gorillas and the women walk crossing their feet over so like they only have one leg. I think this subject could be taken a lot further as everyone is taking photos now.
AnnRos'a 9 years ago
That's what all the best Stylist will do, when their celeb clients are getting photographed! Also whenever you are taking a straight shot photo of someone always have the person slightly stretch their neck out- takes years off their neck in the photo! Tricks of the trade!!! The photo is 2 dimensional, so you'll never notice unless you told someone.
TomSaaristo 9 years ago
Much easier: smile then push your lower jaw forward slightly and lower your eyelids slightly. I was being photographed by my niece with her mother (my sister) and she took 2 photos ... and I remembered those 2 simple tips before the second shot and my niece said "The second one is better, but I don't know why"
TerriGold 9 years ago
The information is wrong: One: turn the body 1/4 away from the camera, not 3/4. You'd be looking backwards if you followed the post's suggestion. Two: Women should lean their upper body toward the camera slightly. Three: The writer is confused about what to do with hands. The post is ridiculous.
TinyDynamine 9 years ago
Or stop being so bothered about it? Who says these 'secrets' are the truth? It's only opinion but this is all about keeping women in the box of being obsessed about their looks. Thumbs down.
Luspea 9 years ago
There should be the same facial expression on both photos to really show the difference
MarcoFragomeni 9 years ago
"..after years of taking grim, mug-shot passport photos, you’ve forgotten how to smile.." of course facial expression is involved
Load More Replies... Nanna 9 years ago
To be honest, especially the last one, it looked better without the tilted head. It depends a lot in the persons figure/face how to pose. And also how you place the light/flash. As well as what mood you want in the picture. But I think a lot of the poses are stanard stock-photo poses. On the last picture, tilting her head makes her nose look bigger. But that could be fixed with a different angle from the flash/light.
JenniferDziura 9 years ago
Uh... The poses on the left are the ones where she looks direct, assertive, and confident. The ones on the right are the ones with askance, submissive poses. Wanna look honestly a little basic? Do the stuff on the right.
KristinBarretoRodgers 9 years ago
Strike a carefree pose...looks like you're trying to fart, in a carefree way!
BiancaFrancescaMatig-a 9 years ago
I don't think anybody needs this.. Every person is different, so you can't have everyone to do the same and expect the same results! You are supposed to have fun while taking pictures not worrying about the angles! Just have fun! You are keeping a memory after all! :D
Diana Saballos 9 years ago
I'll either never remember these tips, or won't execute them well, thus never be photogenic *le sigh* ????????
SallyGillies 9 years ago
Very enlightening. I usually try to get out of having my picture taken but now I'll get my husband to take some with the "new" me! thanks for posting.
melmagicspell 9 years ago
I think its very good and always worth trying out. They are rules which can be adhered to and then broken. But is it not just for women. Narrowing the body and accentuating the eyes is good for a woman but for a man is it not that he should look larger on the shoulders still high cheekbones but a balanced jaw. A square on pose but relaxed etc? When you see them down a catwalk the guys walk like gorillas and the women walk crossing their feet over so like they only have one leg. I think this subject could be taken a lot further as everyone is taking photos now.
AnnRos'a 9 years ago
That's what all the best Stylist will do, when their celeb clients are getting photographed! Also whenever you are taking a straight shot photo of someone always have the person slightly stretch their neck out- takes years off their neck in the photo! Tricks of the trade!!! The photo is 2 dimensional, so you'll never notice unless you told someone.
TomSaaristo 9 years ago
Much easier: smile then push your lower jaw forward slightly and lower your eyelids slightly. I was being photographed by my niece with her mother (my sister) and she took 2 photos ... and I remembered those 2 simple tips before the second shot and my niece said "The second one is better, but I don't know why"
TerriGold 9 years ago
The information is wrong: One: turn the body 1/4 away from the camera, not 3/4. You'd be looking backwards if you followed the post's suggestion. Two: Women should lean their upper body toward the camera slightly. Three: The writer is confused about what to do with hands. The post is ridiculous.
TinyDynamine 9 years ago
Or stop being so bothered about it? Who says these 'secrets' are the truth? It's only opinion but this is all about keeping women in the box of being obsessed about their looks. Thumbs down.
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