Attract Summer Love Online with 5 Photo Makeovers Tips

Photography Technique: the portrait, lens choice


Image by Marco Crupi Visual Artist
Portrait is the more practiced photographic genre in the history of photography.

This genre is not easy and should not be underestimated. Technique skills are essential and they have to be combined with the photographer personal sensibility to make a real portrait.

There are so many possibilities to enhance our subject. It’s essential to understand what we want to show: beauty, sensuality, shyness, intensity, great – heartedness, naughtiness, innocence ecc.

Keeping this in mind, we can think about realizing our portrait and how to use techniques.

In a conventional manner, the portrait lenses range from 85mm and 135mm in focal length. These allow a nice portrayal of the face, without perspective distortions of shorter lenses and the crushing effects of longer lenses.

However a good portrait can be made with any kind of lens if the photographer manages his interpretative and control skills. The risk to caricature the subject is very high.

The choice of focal length to use is also constrained by the habits and personal interaction we have with our subject: use a shorter focal length, a 50mm or a 85mm, will allow us to shoot in close contact with our subject, otherwise the choice of a longer focal length will allow us greater freedom of action, to turn more easily around our party and give him more room to move and get comfortable. Anyway, we have to choose the tool that makes us comfortable and makes the subject at ease. Some people in fact can hardly be natural with a goal at half a meter from his face and pointed at, other can flirt back without any shyness. It’s up to us to interpret the signals and act accordingly.

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(PRWEB) July 14, 2004

Do you want to know how to attract summer love online? With 50 million singles scanning through internet dating profiles, you’ll want to put your best face online. Let dating coach, author, and photographer, Liz H. Kelly, help singles attract the right dates and increase their odds online with a Photo Makeover.

Look better online and watch your calendar get booked with hot dates using these five fun photo tips:

5 Fun Photo Makeover Tips:

1. Focus On You in Photos

2. Be Casual and Cool

3. Wear Your Colors

4. Watch the Lighting

5. Choose Backgrounds Carefully

Just like dating is a numbers game, making great photos can involve taking a ton of pictures. Go wild taking pictures during your summer holiday so you come home with a few amazing shots. As a corporate photographer, Liz was trained to take 100 photos to get 5 good ones. Ok, you probably don’t need to take 100 photos, but take enough to get a few good shots. (While it might feel funny, ask a good friend to take a roll of 24 pictures of you alone to get 2 great profile photos.)

If you want an easier way to make great photos, Liz recommends contacting the professionals at Lookbetteronline.com to take your Internet dating profile photos. As a Dating Coach for Lookbetteronline.com, she has seen fantastic results from her client referrals:

“Liz helped me get on the right track with internet dating. Not only did she jazz up my essays, but she sent me to LookBetterOnline.com for new photos. After I posted my revised essays and professional photos, I got a ton of emails from great guys.” – Donna in Los Angeles

No matter who takes the photos, you can use these five fun photo tips to attract more dates online.

1. Focus on You in Photos – For the primary photo especially, post photos that include you and only you. Because singles want to see you first and not the whole package (the dog, family, softball team, etc.), this photo should be all about you. Your profile photo is about attracting first dates so save the family introductions for later.

2. Be Casual and Cool – You want to post a casual shot just like you are ready to go on a first date. Avoid the corporate mug shots where you might look too serious. Liz coached a lawyer to replace his corporate coat and tie photo with a fun family birthday party picture. After posting this much more casual photo online, he received “35 emails the next day from women.”

3. Wear Your Colors – Wear colors that complement your skin tone. Forget what’s in style and wear what makes you look good. You are naturally drawn to your colors so you probably already know them. If you want another opinion, ask a friend, hire a style consultant or contact Lookbetteronline.com for advice on colors.

4. Watch the Lighting – Because lighting can greatly impact the quality of a photo, take your pictures in different settings and angles so you have options. One of Liz’s dating coaching clients told her, “Wow, I got so many emails from women, but I can’t see their faces in the photos.” For the best results, take shots inside with a red-eye reduction flash, and then outside when the sun is setting. When taking outside shots, make sure the sun is behind the photographer.

5. Choose Backgrounds Carefully – The background in a photo can make a huge difference. Try different backgrounds and make sure nothing is sticking out of someone’s head by accident. When a woman recently asked Liz for photo advice, she immediately saw that her blonde hair was blended into a tan wallpaper background. After Liz referred her to the pros at Lookbetteronline.com for a Photo Makeover, she was flooded with emails from great guys!

Summer is already half over – stop procrastinating and get the camera out. Start clicking the camera offline and then click online with the right dates.

AUTHOR BIO: Liz H. Kelly is a Dating Coach, Author of SMART Man Hunting and corporate photographer. Her book and work have been featured on shows such as FOX News, Dick Clark’s “The Other Half,” Lifetime’s “Speaking of Women’s Health,” BBC Radio and in Cosmopolitan, Glamour, MSN Dating & Personals, Match.com, Yahoo! Personals and the Chicago Tribune.

Availability: CA, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available as a last-minute guest

Contact: Liz Kelly, (CA) cell:(310) 463-4130, voicemail:(310) 795-1485; e-mail liz@smartmanhunting.com; Web site http://www.smartmanhunting.com

Producers: Summer is already half over – don’t delay – call Liz today so she can help singles attract love online using these five fun profile photo tips.

Photographer and teacher Ernie Cowan gives 9 great landscape photo tips. You can sign up for a workshop with Ernie at www.calumetphoto.com

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