hello friends welcome back to my channel if you're new welcome my name is
christine and i'm going to share with you
five tips to look good in every single photo i actually got this idea because
not too long ago i posted a video on how to pose and some of my favorite poses
for photos soon after that i posted like a whole
series for kind of upping your instagram game
so i have a video on how to take your own photos at home
and how i edit my photos and i feel like this is kind of the last remaining piece
and it just helps you to look a little bit more photogenic overall very first
tip that i have and i feel like not a lot of people talk about this but
it is to make micro adjustments in every single photo
usually when i take a lot of photos i usually will do a burst or take a lot of
photos at one time and in every single photo i want to make
sure that i am angling my face in slightly different angles sometimes i'm
smiling sometimes i'm not smiling i'm changing up my pose just a little bit in
every single photo if you've ever seen like a behind the
scenes video of like models posing at a shoot this is what they do too
and it just helps to ensure that you always get some type of photo where your
face and your pose is like perfect even if
you take like five or 500 photos if you have the same face
in the same pose in every single photo there's no point in taking
a lot of photos you know i mean so it's better to make micro
adjustments in every single photo so that each photo comes out differently
do you ever have when you're looking at your photos and you're like i wish my
pose was a little bit different i wish i fixed my hair in that photo i wish my
face was a little bit different so by making these micro adjustments it just
makes sure that you have a photo where your face your hair your
pose everything is just perfect the second
tip that i have kind of goes hand in hand with the very first tip
that is to take lots of photos i take most of my photos myself at home
there usually be anywhere from 200 to 500 photos of that
same outfit i would way rather have too many
photos than not enough it is the worst thing when you ask someone to take a
photo for you and they take you like two photos and you hate both of them
especially if you have the flexibility just take a lot of photos when i first
started out on my instagram actually had brandon take all of my photos for me and
i would have him take all of my photos in burst mode if you
open up your iphone camera you can either just tap rapidly
another way to take a burst is if you hold your finger and then slide it to
the left so just like this and that number that's increasing shows
how many photos are taken in the burst and then later when you're going through
the photos you can hit select and go through all the photos that you
took and from there select your favorites so if you have like
frames where you're blinking really hard or there's like a bug or bird flying by
that you don't really like you're more likely to have
the photo that you like within that burst when i take my own photos at home
i even set my camera on burst mode and it just ensures that you always get
the best photo third tip that i have is to know your angles
this is so important for me my good side is this side so i always try to take
every single photo with my face this way if i take any photos like this i just
never like the way that it turns out practice at home a lot take lots of
selfies and kind of figure out what side is your best side
what angle do you prefer i prefer to look super long
and tall and so i prefer to have photos taken at a really really low angle so i
feel like standard people are used to taking pictures eye level that's fine
but it doesn't do anything for you like height wise
sometimes it even makes you look a little bit stumpy
eye level is great for beauty shots if you're taking any type of close-up
picture or half up body shot that's a great angle
because it just makes you look slim it makes your face look super
proportionate for full body pictures i prefer
low angles just because it makes my legs look so long if i'm ever having someone
else take a photo from me what i'll do is i'll actually
frame the photo for them i would actually stand in the spot where they
would be standing to take my photo and hold the phone for them and show them
can you take a photo from me and kind of show them like this is what i want the
framing to look like hold it for them and have them come
around grab the phone that way they know exactly what you're looking for
for example when brandon takes my photos i'll actually look at where i want my
photo to be taken and kind of hold my phone and usually i hold it really low
by holding my phone like that he just knows
this is exactly how i want the photo to be framed this is how i want the angle
to turn out if you don't want it to be that serious
and come off as like too psycho you can always just be like oh do you
mind just holding the phone a little bit lower
i always prefer framing the picture for people so that there's no questions you
don't have to be super annoying and be like lower
lower go a little bit lower like just frame the photo for them and it just
makes it easier for both parties fourth tip that i have may seem obvious but
is to practice a lot the more you practice the better you're gonna get
practicing your poses in front of a mirror maybe playing with like
these type of poses to see what looks best and kind of figure out your
best angle and also with practicing it also comes with taking a lot of photos
so practice having your boyfriend take lots
of photos for you having your family or your friends take lots of photos for you
and the more photos you take the more comfortable you can be in front of the
camera i've been a content creator for like
three years now so over the years i've just gotten
so comfortable and when i get in front of a camera or phone or i'm doing any
type of photo shoot it's just like second nature for me i know exactly what
poses i'm gonna do and what angles look best for me so the
more that you practice the more comfortable you're going to get and the
more confident you're going to feel in front of the camera
also i feel like when you first start out taking your own photos it's kind of
like overwhelming trying to figure out what poses to do what facial expressions
you want to do but if poses becomes super easy to you then you can
focus on your facial expressions and eventually you can get the poses and
facial expressions all super easily it's just something
that comes with practice and again going back to the micro
adjustments you can get used to like tweaking your poses little by little in
every single photo tilting your head in different angles
stuff like that just comes with practice and then the fifth tip that i have is to
have confidence
this is something that you can't just like tell yourself be more confident
it's just something that comes again with practice so the more that you
practice the more confident you're going to feel in front of the camera
confidence definitely shows in photos and it makes any outfit or any pose just
looks so much better when you just stand there and own your pose
you can definitely tell when someone's a little bit newer at it when they're kind
of just like oh like i don't really know how to act
but if you know like i look good today my outfit looks good i know my poses
it's definitely gonna show up in the photos so obviously with more
practice you're just gonna get a lot more comfortable and it shows
also eventually when we can go outside again and take cute photos in public
you're so much more comfortable taking photos in front of strangers you don't
really care what they think because at the end of the day you're never gonna
see these people again in your life so it
doesn't matter might as well stand there own the pose
and have the picture come out good so those are all the tips that i have to
look good in every single photo but i also have an
instagram playlist on instagram tips all the tips that i
have for editing taking your own photos at home or even if you want to start out
as a blogger or influencer i have a video all about
advice i have and how i got started and all that stuff
also be sure to follow me on instagram and tick tock i'll go ahead and leave my
handles down below but i'm obviously so much more active on there you can get
lots of posing and photo inspo on there as well i'm also super active on
pinterest so if you like to look for a lot of like inspo pics i post a lot of
my own content as well as repost content that i'm inspired by let me know if you
want to see more quick tip videos like this and what topics you guys want me to
talk about next but that is it thank you so much for watching and i will see you
in the next video