- Sometimes in my life I'm like oh my frickin' God!
What is going on?
And I feel like that's what my Instagram's like.
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Today all us awkward guys are gonna learn
how to finally pose like Instagram models.
- The only attempt I've ever tried to be a model
I'm wearing at least two GoPros,
I've got the sorority hand out.
- Basically I have one pose.
Sit close to a window with good lighting
and raise my eyebrow kind of like this.
That's the only thing that I know how to do.
- When I was in Disneyland, I should be more excited
but literally the picture's,
a picture of me standing like this.
It's the most miserable picture.
- If someone whips out a camera my go to pose
is just my hand in my pocket and then just a cheesy smile.
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They look like the have their life together.
They're always on the street, on the go.
- A lot of them do the #OOTD.
- Instagram bloggers are usually really stylish
and they're always looking off into the distance,
contemplating life.
- Kind of remind me of Ryan Gosling.
- I think Instagram fashion bloggers
make their lives look a lot better than they actually are.
- They make it look easy but I'm sure it's a lot harder
and more complicated.
- Today we have Devy, an Instagram photographer
teaching us how to pose.
- So there are only a handful of poses
that Instagram fashion models do.
The three poses are: casual lean,
the mid-walk,
the adjusting your clothes.
Pose number one is a casual lean
so basically just to show that you're relaxed
while showing off your clothes.
- Leaning was a bit of a challenge
'cause I feel like I don't wanna look
like I was uncomfortable.
At first to be honest, it felt really forced
and I was kind of like, oh I'm not sure I'm gonna like those
and it showed in the photos.
When I was actually leaning waiting
it actually felt natural and it looked natural.
- The whole experience was very uncomfortable
from where to put my feet, where to put my hands,
where should I lean, how to fold my jacket,
how to everything, it was just like,
it looked very uncomfortable.
- It's weird 'cause your arm sometimes
was squished and you didn't know it,
or it felt natural but then your shoulders are unaligned.
- This pose was very awkward, nothing felt natural to me.
I kinda just did what they told me to do.
- It was awkward, I did not feel comfortable doing that.
- I actually flatlined a little bit to figure out
which leg I was putting in front
and it's actually pretty hard.
- Pose number two is gonna be the mid-walk.
Basically you're just gonna be walking
and look like you're going somewhere
but you're not actually going anywhere.
- When I was looking off, I was just thinkin' hmm
what am I thinkin' about?
But that really translates into an awesome photo
because you see the photo and it just looks like
hmm, what am I thinkin' about?
- I felt super awkward, not good at walking
in my normal life so doing it on camera was even worse.
- It forces me to come out of my element and my shell
'cause I feel like it's easy to take one
when no one's watching.
Is it weird that I actually enjoyed it?
- Just the act of moving was really awkward for me.
I don't know why?
I'm also just dressed up to the nines
and this is not who I am.
- This is really hard.
Pretending to walk is harder than actually walking.
You kinda forget how to walk.
- It didn't feel as awkward as I thought it would be,
especially after seeing all the guys do it.
People were definitely looking 'cause we were all dressed up
but we were all together.
It made it much easier.
- Pose three, adjusting your clothes.
Shows that you're fashionable so it looks like
you're thinking about your clothes.
All you wanna do is just look good.
- It's funny 'cause there's only so many things
that guys can do.
You can either button a jacket, fix your tie,
and that's it.
- I feel like I really enjoyed playing with the watch pose.
- We always see those photos, for some reason
something's always wrong with their cufflink
but I like it, it's simple.
- Very happy that I did this.
I feel like I've learned so much.
- I didn't know what to do with my hands
and that was really uncomfortable.
I think I'd be very good without arms.
- The poses that I enjoyed the most
were ones where it involved a lot of accessories.
I think I got to hide behind things and it made me
feel like it wasn't really about me
but it was more so about the look.
- I was actually surprised.
I'm kinda an awkward person, I didn't expect
to feel good so the pictures it was like oh
that's not that bad, I'd hit that.
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- After I posted the photos my like gain was up
at least over 100, huge difference for me.
- My highest liked photo was the one
where I was like walking and fixing an item of clothing.
482 likes.
- They're hitting over 300, pretty solid increase
of over 100 on each of these photos.
- This one particular picture where I'm fake walking,
315 likes.
- I had 413 likes and over 28 comments.
- The comments were "oh my goodness, nice!"
the praying hand.
- "Damn, are you famous now?"
"There's more to life than being really really
really ridiculously good looking."
- "Damn, Dad, oh my God, va va voom."
- These last two photos I was hesitant to post
'cause I didn't think I looked the greatest in them
and I posted them and they both put up great numbers
in the like gain.
- And it actually did make me feel more confident
about having a bald head now.
When I had nice photos of it you're like
oh you know, I can rock it.
- You're also really quick to pick out your own flaws.
Those might not be there, they might just be
in your own head and other people aren't gonna see that.
Before I had no idea what to do with my hands.
Or even smile.
Now that I know if I just look like this,
like that is the pose every time.
I had so many people text me,
why is your watch always broken?
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