Here’s your reminder that everyone is living a fake life on social media and you can now define your version of fake. Your social media presence relies a lot on your photo skills too. Here’s your guide on how to create bomb pictures for social media on your phone:
Camera quality
Having a good camera is the first trick to creating bomb pictures. It comes with the whole package, because you’ll open your front camera and first smile widely because of the beauty that is staring back at you. You can’t possibly expect a miracle when your phone camera has a quality of 5MP that takes your pictures in a throwback to 1950. Plus, if your camera is great, you should clean it from time to time with a soft material to preserve its greatness.
Lights
Pictures are about the lights. When the sun is right up there, some of you choose that moment to turn your back to it. Do you intend on shining the light on your backside? Except you’re all about promoting mysterious backside photos, let the sunshine in your face. The concept of being sun-kissed is not about burning your face, it’s about making use of natural light sources as best as you can to create amazing pictures. You can also choose to get yourself a ring light like the baddie that you are.
Pose
Here comes the issue for most of you. After being super lucky with access to Instagram for close to a decade now, a good number of you still can’t figure out how to pose in front of a camera. Then you go on to say “I can’t pose” with a tone of finality. My dear, you can pose. Just stand out like the badass you are. Let people stare, it’s your glory that is shining back at them. Take up space when you’re posing, in a way that even you know that you’re occupying a ton of space. Then, chin up and give us that dazzling smile that charms everyone.
Position
There’s this rule that the minute someone flips your phone diagonally to take a photo, yell at them to get your phone back because they’re about to give you the worst picture of the millennium. If your phone has the coverage, use it. If you’re a little bit close to the floor because of your height disadvantage, no one has to know. Take the phone down, move a bit farther from the camera and make a face at the camera. Stop taking selfies from under your face, take your camera up and to the side to flaunt your jawline, before clicking a shot. You’re beautiful, and you have angles. Make use of your angles.
Don’t give up on editing
There’s no good picture without a good edit. Tons of #Iwokeuplikethis pictures have been into Lightroom and Photoshop, before coming out to play. Did anyone tell you it’s fake to edit pictures? Shut them up with your fingers holding their lips together. Download great presets for your pictures and watch how your beauty would shine bright like a diamond. However, make use of quality edit or you’d end up looking like a low-budget 2000-s Nollywood baddie.
