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6 Secrets To Make You Look Beautiful In Photos
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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)
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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The lady in photos is beautiful however she poses....
I agree, she looks great in all the poses.
What a refreshingly nice thing to read on the internet.
Exactly!
Precisely!
Aw that's so nice! Lovely to read NICE comments on sites such as this. Thank you x.
There should be the same facial expression on both photos to really show the difference
"..after years of taking grim, mug-shot passport photos, you’ve forgotten how to smile.." of course facial expression is involved
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.
I agree.
you're right, there is where the photographer ability is (or should be): look at people and understand the best angle/pose. The goal of the article was more on create dynamism, depth and a better use of body language
Well so I needn't hide away from a camera after all
But if a man tales these poses, it wouldn't be that great.
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.
I'm kinda curious as to what the tutorial would look like if the model was a man.
Strike a carefree pose...looks like you're trying to fart, in a carefree way!
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
I tried was ugly :D woman are beautiful in all picture :D
I'll either never remember these tips, or won't execute them well, thus never be photogenic *le sigh* ????????
I'm kind of in love with her.
do not forget to smile :-)
Is there a male version ? :D
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.
"..after years of taking grim, mug-shot passport photos, you’ve forgotten how to smile.." Years...? Most Americans don't even have a passport (36% in 2012). Unless you frequently lose it, you'll have spent about 12 seconds every five years not smiling for a picture. I can guarantee that you'll have spent a lot more time smiling awkwardly for any other picture, so forgetting how to smile because of passport pictures...? Wth.
Fuck this ill just be ugly forever
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.
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.
The difference is not her posture but her missing smile.
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"
I found the lines drawn on the before and afters extremely helpful. Maybe I will be able to make good use of this information. Well done.
Great tips, but some vandal drew black lines on every photo lol!
Love the photos, but who drew all those black lines on her!
Great tips. Spot on.
The ones with the hand by the face makes it visible that she has used a lot of make-up. Still, good advice from the photografer.
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.
Only helps if you already look beautiful....
Will I look as beautiful as she? 8-)
I still can't do it.
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.
Agreed
Tip look good in photos: be beautiful.
Excellent thank you.
And make sure you have a nice face cause without that every picture looks crap
OK, the author of this article, Dainius should have taken his own advice. That little Panda doesn't take his own advice....
The lady in photos is beautiful however she poses....
I agree, she looks great in all the poses.
What a refreshingly nice thing to read on the internet.
Exactly!
Precisely!
Aw that's so nice! Lovely to read NICE comments on sites such as this. Thank you x.
There should be the same facial expression on both photos to really show the difference
"..after years of taking grim, mug-shot passport photos, you’ve forgotten how to smile.." of course facial expression is involved
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.
I agree.
you're right, there is where the photographer ability is (or should be): look at people and understand the best angle/pose. The goal of the article was more on create dynamism, depth and a better use of body language
Well so I needn't hide away from a camera after all
But if a man tales these poses, it wouldn't be that great.
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.
I'm kinda curious as to what the tutorial would look like if the model was a man.
Strike a carefree pose...looks like you're trying to fart, in a carefree way!
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
I tried was ugly :D woman are beautiful in all picture :D
I'll either never remember these tips, or won't execute them well, thus never be photogenic *le sigh* ????????
I'm kind of in love with her.
do not forget to smile :-)
Is there a male version ? :D
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.
"..after years of taking grim, mug-shot passport photos, you’ve forgotten how to smile.." Years...? Most Americans don't even have a passport (36% in 2012). Unless you frequently lose it, you'll have spent about 12 seconds every five years not smiling for a picture. I can guarantee that you'll have spent a lot more time smiling awkwardly for any other picture, so forgetting how to smile because of passport pictures...? Wth.
Fuck this ill just be ugly forever
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.
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.
The difference is not her posture but her missing smile.
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"
I found the lines drawn on the before and afters extremely helpful. Maybe I will be able to make good use of this information. Well done.
Great tips, but some vandal drew black lines on every photo lol!
Love the photos, but who drew all those black lines on her!
Great tips. Spot on.
The ones with the hand by the face makes it visible that she has used a lot of make-up. Still, good advice from the photografer.
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.
Only helps if you already look beautiful....
Will I look as beautiful as she? 8-)
I still can't do it.
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.
Agreed
Tip look good in photos: be beautiful.
Excellent thank you.
And make sure you have a nice face cause without that every picture looks crap
OK, the author of this article, Dainius should have taken his own advice. That little Panda doesn't take his own advice....