How to be more photogenic. Basically, how to look better looking in pictures. And
this can be for your social media, this could be for online dating, anywhere where you need
to have a picture that looks good, I'm going to be going over that today. And you're gonna
be learning a few different techniques that you can instantly change in the way you take photos
that will make your photos look so much better. And you're gonna see examples of how it's done,
it's going to be awesome. I know that there's a lot of you who are doing online dating and even
with the pictures, you're still not able to get a lot of matches, or maybe you're in a situation
where you're getting a lot of matches, but they're not ending up in dates. We hear about that all the
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today. Alright, so what's the point? Why are we doing this? Why are we changing our photos? Well,
the whole reason why we want to change our photos, is because if we look better in photos, we're
going to be more attractive to women, obviously. If you're more attractive to women on your social
media, and especially if you're more attractive on your online dating photos, you're gonna get more
matches, it's going to lead to more dates. That's why you want to learn this. You want to learn this
so you can be able to have pictures of you that look better. Who doesn't want a picture that looks
good of you? So make sure that you have the best photos possible, which you're going to learn today
to help in those areas. What if you don't learn this? Well then you might get stuck with having
really lame photos. In fact, you might even be looking at your photos now thinking man, these are
awesome. And then you're going to learn today oh, maybe they're not so awesome. If you don't learn
this, if you don't implement this, then you might be stuck with photos that are turning women off.
Some theory behind this: online dating sites and photographers, they've really done all the work at
this point. Meaning, they know what works and what doesn't work. I'm going to be extracting theories
from famous photographers and big online dating sites today to teach you what works the best and
photos to make you more photogenic. Online dating sites have been able to capture so much data on
this. They know what works, what doesn't work. And obviously, photographers, well, their whole job is
to make a photo look great and to make the subject look great. If they're a headshot photographer,
they're going to know what to do and they have these little techniques that, like I said,
you can implement pretty much ASAP. And we're gonna get into those right now.
Three techniques: let us start with the first one called "the squinch". The squinch is not
something that I came up with, this is something from Peter Hurley, who is a famous photographer,
you can check him out. In fact, the photos I'm going to be showing you right now are from his
website, so full credit to him on the squinch and these photos to show the difference between
what it looks like to use the squinch and not use the squinch. I'll show you right now. If you look
here, you see side by side, two photos, they look kind of similar. But if you notice here... so look
right here... see his eyes are a little bit more open, and here they're a little bit more squinted.
Here, he almost looks a little worried and sad. And here, there's just that slight difference,
it just looks a lot better. It's like deer in the headlights versus confident. In fact, doing the
squinch makes you look more confident. I'm going to teach you how to do in a second, but I want to
show you some more examples. That's the wrong way. This is the right way. And then here's this guy –
this is very clear, no squinch, squinch. You see the difference here? The squinch is when you're
squinting your eyes and you're pinching your eyelids together just a little bit. The idea here
is he's moving his lower eyelid up. His lower eyelid is up just a little bit and that's how
you do it. See, this guy looks like he's about to murder you. And this guy looks like he's about to
seduce you. Obviously, he looks a lot better here, and same here. Here's another example. This is
the squinch, as well, so he's doing it correctly. And you can even tell, if you go to like magazines
of models, if you go to a GQ magazine, or just go to the website. Go to any website that is a
popular magazine and you'll see these models. Most of them are doing the squinch and it looks
that much more attractive. How do you do it? You just squint your eyes ever so slightly,
and then you bring your lower eyelid up. You need to practice, you might have to do it a few times.
But this is going to be a way to make you look more attractive, as opposed to looking creepy
where your eyes are open. And a lot of guys make this mistake. The squinch – Peter Hurley, he's the
man, photographer knows what he's talking about. And clearly you can see it here. Next is the head
tilt. The head tilt, man, this has been one... I have a personal vendetta against the head tilt.
Because I remember when I was younger, I used to do the head tilt. And my friends used to do it,
it's almost like this gangster thing where you look like this where you're trying to be cool
so you put your head tilted back. And you might look at that and go, what's wrong
with that picture? That doesn't look so bad. Or maybe you can notice it. But let's look at the
difference between a head tilt up and a hip head tilt down. See the difference there?
Also, when your head is tilted down, you're going to cover up your neck a little bit more.
And what happens? This one's a little different, it's kind of a higher angle, but still his head
is tilted down. You're going to cover up your neck a little bit more and it's going to give you more
of a defined jawline. Look at the difference between these three – not defined on the left,
as much as the two on the right. Make sure that whenever you're getting a photo of yourself,
you want to have your head tilted slightly at a downward angle. You're going to take it from
neutral to about 15 degrees down. You don't want it too down or else you're gonna be looking up
at the camera. You don't want it too much down but just slightly. Again, the idea here is try to have
a neutral place for your head, and then just ever so slightly tilt it down to give you that defined
jawline, and not look like you have this big neck. Alright, so this is the head tilt. This is
technique number two to look more photogenic. And again, I remember, man, like all my high school
photos are of us and my friends doing this. It's like this weird thing. I don't know. Okay, looking
away. This is a big one. Apparently, looking away, so looking away not towards the camera
actually gives guys a higher boost in matches. Here's something that I took from an article
that talks about the data. It says, myth number one about what gets the best matches,
and it's you should smile. That's the myth. Not if you're a guy, photos in which men were looking
away from the camera and not smiling had the most success in getting messages from possible dates.
If you're looking straight at the camera for a male that can be intimidating to a woman. Yagen
said. Yagen is one of the co founders over at OKCupid, a very massive online dating website.
He continues, but if someone is looking off past... but if someone is looking off past
you that can in many ways be less threatening and more approachable. Here's my thought here,
I don't think that you should have an online dating profile or social media that's all of
you looking away. I think that you end up looking more attractive when you look away. And of course,
the data has shown that it's really good. And you might be thinking, well, I don't get it Tripp,
you just showed photos of guys clearly not looking away. What's the deal here? Well,
these are just examples for something you might have for a headshot or something for business,
whatever. But on your online dating profile, my advice is do a mixture – have a couple of
you looking away, not smiling, something like this. And then have a couple of you
doing a squinch, head tilt where you are looking at the camera. I would do a combination of all,
but the most important thing you can do here is you got to test this. All these three techniques,
you have to test. I wouldn't test necessarily squinch versus no squinch or a head tilt versus
no head tilt. That's definitely the the best kind to make you look better, but the looking away,
you might want to test that a little bit. You want might want to test some different photos
on your online dating profile to see which ones do best. If you follow all these rules,
I'm sure you're gonna get a bump and increase in matches and definitely that will lead to dates.
But also if you find that you're not getting much more matches, test more, put more photos in,
try different things to see what works. And of course, you can at least test this now and start
using some of these principles right away. Now what? Here's what I would recommend that you do:
take these principles and have your friend, grab a phone... most people have phones these
days that take really good pictures, whether you have an Android or an iPhone. And I want you to
take a few photos of you doing the squinch and the head tilt, maybe a few of you looking away doing
the squinch and the head tilt, and start posting those on your social media as well as your online
dating profile and let's see if we make some big changes there. Have your friend go and do that,
probably takes a few minutes. Make sure if you're doing this, you're facing the sun so you're not
backlit. That's really important to have good lighting. That's another tip for you. And if
you need more help go to www.coachedbytripp.com and learn about the coaching program that we have
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can help you. I hope this helps, implement this, and I'll see you on the next video.