Guys without Friends & always busy, HOW do you get your quality pics?

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K

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I have been in touch with Alex and his number 1 suggestion to me is to improve my pictures. He suggests all my problems would get solved if I were to improve upon them since I have everything else in life going for me (6'2, good career, passionate about things in life, not socially awkward etc.)

These are the pics that I currently have and use and I get little to no matches on them (though there is this thing about Tinder giving me 20 matches on day 1, and then from there on out zero every single day. Similar with Bumble, 18-21 in first 3 days, then 2-3 in the past 2 weeks).

Here's a vid on the bio so far, same one with the above results btw.
https://youtu.be/Swl2lCUbnPc

It's FINALLY summer again, I do pretty much everything by myself, however, I do have friends and can definitely go out to get better pics of myself as well.

WHAT pictures do you suggest would be good additions for me? Don't need any more physique pics, but probably some activity pics. Of which I was thinking, playing the guitar, inside or outside I don't know yet, get a better picture of me recording in front of my podcast, or what other ideas can you give me??

My issue is I don't have too many people I associate and hang out with, and obviously I don't take too many selfies, so this makes it EXTREMELY hard to get pics of me from a 3rd person perspective! Not trying to make excuses, here to get results so need advice I can go out and execute on, I have been STUCK on this step for fucking FOREVER now and need to get the pics done and out of the way ASAP. I am in Hamilton, Ontario btw, so if there are cool things to do close by that would be great too as suggestions for where I can end up getting my pics!

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Michael Styles Avatar

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If you rather, you can take the photos yourself. Get a tripod for a DLSR and/or phone and just start getting content. Be relentless when getting good content for yourself.

If you got a buddy to do it with you, even better.

WHAT pictures do you suggest would be good additions for me?

  • Try both the guitar photo inside and outside and choose the best outcome. Sitting, standing, laying down, walking through a wheat field with it strapped around your shoulder. Etc
  • Podcast idea is great. Will probably prompt a lot of girls to ask what do you record.
  • Shirtless while cooking, smiling and looking at the food could be a panty dropper
  • Sitting while reading next to a stack of books in a cool couch. Maybe do that in a nice hotel lobby. Not the motel 5 ya feel?

To find more photos beyond that I'd be asking these questions:

  • What do you do for fun?
  • Do you explore restaurants or cool spots over the weekend?
  • Is there a landmark that you've always wanted to visit and take photos at?
  • Any cool restaurants that have patios you can get good candid shots at while drinking coffee or a computer?

There could be Facebook groups that you can join and find people to do that with.

Hire a photographer. You'll forever have dope photos you can use.

Take more full body shots aka include your entire body in the photo.

I found this video to be helpful when crafting a good photo, with some ideas location ideas and such:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyZASkI-Lf0

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J

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So not sure what Alex told you about the waterfall picture but I think it's dope and I would keep that one. (maybe crop it a bit). One thing I did notice was the facial hair is drastically different which probably throws girls off. I would just have most of your pics your most typical facial hair style (groomed of course).

So here's what I would recommend that you can do immediately assuming you don't have a nice camera and tripod yet. Use your phone (I have iphone xs but anything reasonably knew should be fine) and a stack of books. Set the books up like 5-7 feet away from you so the camera is up against them flat and use the timer / burst photo to get like a few hundred pics of you cooking like someone is taking the picture instead of a selfie. I recommend live action shots like you actually cutting up veggies, or adding spices or beating eggs or something else that shows you actually doing the cooking. Take pics of you both looking at the camera and not looking at the camera (also shirtless and with a shirt) to see what comes out best.

Then I would do a similar process but this time with you and your dog in your living room on the couch being cute. Alex did a similar thing for his roommate in a recent video (except he took the pics).

Lastly, I would drop the thing about the 30 years old line. Just screen girls or use the age filters to get what you want in that regard. I think you will potentially lose girls who read that line even if they fit your criteria.

Hope this helps man.

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E

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You don't actually need to have a ton of activity pictures, just one activity picture is enough. My first and most popular picture is just me sitting confidently at a lounge with my hands together, I took this with a tripod. My second picture is a simple selfie in a car where I have this kind of a sexy look on my face. My third picture is a photo of me from a hiking trip in the mountains. And that's all, that's just 3 photos. With those, I get around 3 likes per day, but it does vary a lot from day to day. I'd imagine I'd get more if I had 4 photos but 3 likes per day is enough for me at the moment.

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K

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Genuinely curious, are 3 likes a day considered good in this forum with the tips given here? Not judging, considering I have fucking 0, genuinely curious as to what numbers are considered where your profile is doing good vs not.

TY for your comment bro!

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Stuart LightThrower Avatar

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One trick I've used for taking photos alone is setting my phone down while recording video, then taking screenshots of myself in action. They're not exactly high quality pics, but it might be worth trying if you're desperate. You could also simply ask a stranger for help if you're in a public place. You're a handsome guy, so you could probably get someone to help you.

For pictures: you walking down a street wearing a sharp suit (and maybe sunglasses), playing football or reading a book - all taken from third person - would be my ideas.

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C

69 Posts (+16), 86 Cmts (+21)

My suggestion would be this, research on Instagram some popular attractions near your area and take your favourite pictures from there. Hire a professional photographer and take photos from the selected places. Also ask yourself, what things you like to do that display your personality and DHV yourself? Follow this by getting the photographer to take photos of you doing these things! Its extremely worth it doing this, your pictures are not only important but are passive, once you get them sorted you will get matches and can work on your text game from there.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NWC3L95/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This is a tripod I bought that works pretty well. Cheap, comes with a remote, and good height

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Pancake Mouse Avatar

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Tripods, dog, tripods. Tripods and DSLR remotes or phone timers.

Did you actually go to Harvard, or are you frauding?

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K

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I did.

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