I'm really excited to share with you the fifth episode in my photography hack
series and my how to pose series today I'm going to be sharing with you my top tips
on how to take the perfect selfie or self-portrait because not everyone has
an Instagram husband or friend following them around taking photos for them.
I'm going to be teaching you guys my top tips on how to take your own pictures
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into this video! there's three different angles that you could take your selfie
you can either hold it right in front of you, above or a little bit below. to take
a more edgy selfie, angle your chin up a little bit and then you could
softly smile. I am guilty of always smiling and all of my photos and we
cheesing really hard. I always look super happy but I really wanted to be
able to change up my look and add a more moody effect. my first tip is to take a
deep breath and relax your face and eye softly smile. this definitely takes
practice because when I first started trying to take selfies without actually
smiling it was really hard but over time it definitely gets easier.
in photos I always want to look slimmer and it's hard because I
can I have a double chin showing!
hold your camera up tilt it down and you'll have a more slimmer and
more flattering selfie push your hair so it's lightly framed your face this can
definitely make your face look a lot slimmer maybe you are wearing a very
bulky jacket so another tip is to just wear it slightly off your shoulder and
now way you don't have too much of the jacket showing in the photo and the
focus is more on you are you ready to take your turn so you might be going
back to school soon and I wanted to share with you guys a tip for picture
day and how to take good photos using flash when you're getting ready and
doing your makeup be sure to stick to matte beauty products because these ones
absorb the light and it doesn't have any flash back whereas you know things with
shimmer and more glitter in it will tend to give you a word glowy or do your
effect so focus on shimmery products on like your highlight area and then use
Mac products and places where you want to contour
another tip to look slimmer when it comes to taking photos or portraits is
to not look directly at the camera but to turn your body a little bit to a
45-degree angle and then turn your head back over and you'll tend to look a lot
more slimmer in your posture and also on your face
sometimes you might feel that photos can add weight to your face well you should
probably look into your lens so Izumo ends although it gives you a nice like
bokeh effect will actually add weight to your face whereas a wide-angle lens will
make you look slimmer in your photos I
don't know about you guys but once I purchase my DSLR camera or anything
that's more of a professional camera everyone in my family started asking me
to help take passport photos or their new profile picture for Facebook and a
really easy way to kind of upgrade that and to make it even more of a
professional job is to purchase some backdrops so you can buy these online on
Amazon - really really cheap
so you can just tape this on the wall or you can also buy a backdrop stand just
to hold everything up depending on how often you think you're going to be using
this and it definitely makes your pictures look a lot more professional
it's looking a little ghetto let's just move on in and does it look professional
so another fun thing you can add are some props so I pick these up from paper
source these are multi colors like confetti pieces and then I also have
some gold glitter confetti in the air and take some really cool self-timer
portraits with your friends birthday currently so much money on the ground
but looks good though weird bad shot birthday
moving on to the next tip you want to take some great photos laying down on
the ground or on the grass at a park or something it can be really tricky you
can have a double chin you can look a lot wider than you actually do so my
trick here is have your photographer kind of take a little bit higher for you
or when you're taking a selfie just to bring it up a little higher put your
chin down and then smile try to push your hair into your face and you will
definitely look a lot more slimmer now everybody has a photographer following
them around everywhere so I think a really good tool to use as your self
timer on your phone that way you can have both of your hands in your selfie
a few of my favorite photo editing apps on my phone are viscose Snapseed
afterlight fuji for that vintage film effect I also love facetune when it
comes to like you're bursting a pimple
taking photos and direct sunlight can be such a struggle but it definitely adds a
nice glowing factor to your skin when you're taking a photo in the Sun just
close your eyes for a few seconds before you take the photo and when you're ready
just snap away and open up your eyes you can protect your eyes in the meantime
let's go get that cool glowy effect so we've waited to the end of this video
thank you so much to my photographer Fred OTT for being in this video be sure
to check out all of our other photography hat videos and how to pose
videos will be linked down below in my playlist be sure to comment down below
and share with me which tip was your favorite and share with me some of your
best selfie hacks and tips I'd love to know thank you guys so much for watching
and we will see you next time
hey guys it's your girl Ali welcome back to my daily struggle back-to-school
season is just around the corner and you might be stressing out over picture day
your driver's license
but then you gonna go sit back down are you ready three close-up you ready to
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