Which is your best side for photos?

I just took some selfie photos because when I looked in a mirror I was looking happy and good. How you look in a photo can be affected by your mood, the lighting of the location and the time of day and what you are wearing.

Indoors some rooms have lighting which flatters. A newspaper recently published. An article showing how their model wearing the same dress looked thinner or better in some shops. (this could be,  depending how you look at life:

Plot
A wicked plot to deceive customers into buying clothes which are not as good in real life as in the shop

Smart marketing
You get what you pay for  - a better shopping day and good morale in better shops

Random effect -
explains why you are sometimes disappointed

Proof lighting matters in your shop or home so spend the money to improve your customer satisfaction, wedding location photos. Make your workplace a happy location for staff and visitors, improve your morale and marriage, relieve depression, maybe even decrease sickness and increase business

Buyer beware

The moral for your photos when travelling

1 Carry a white umbrella to increase light on faces
2 move into the light especially with a low quality camera
3 take photos in different locations
4 take photos from both left and right of streets, objects and people
5 actors and models know their good side - find out yours and take selfie and solo photos showing your good side
6 to change mood in a movie have yourself or the hero or heroine taken from their good side at the wedding and from their bad side when they are hiding, unhappy or at a funeral.
7 in a group photo position yourself  to the left or right of the group or facing left or right.

Lighting
If you can stand near a windows or outdoors you can increase the lighting. You can even move a large group in a club meeting to a different location, or take a second picture for variety especially if you want two newspapers to each receive a different picture of your people and event.

Location
Holiday photos can provide locations for romantic backdrops. I like to have one photo
without people and another with human interest. The Eiffel Tower with you beside it is more interesting to your family than the building alone. However, a major landmark obscured by your grinning ex with wonky teeth might not suit every occasion later.

Reluctant Models
If your family, friends or subjects hesitate or decline on the grounds that they don't look good in photos, try taking photos in different lighting and from both left and right and up and down. Have them smiling showing teeth as well as with a closed mouth. The smiling photo might be better for a fun photo. The serious shot might be more suitable for a job application or a requirement for a passport photo.

I have been able to shorter a long nose, conceal a birthmark or blemish, get a person with wonky teach to shut their mouth. People who don't like being photographed have told me: You take a good photo; you make me look good.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
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