Here we are, we're doing a selfie. I'm going to put myself on camera so that you lose any fear you might have. And a couple of things I want to show straightaway. Let's just show you what happens when I move close to the camera. Okay, this is what a lot of people do itself is, all of a sudden my nose is big, my face has been narrowed. So if I'm pulled back a little bit, the lesson space, my face comes into it's more natural proportion.

Now, excuse the background back here, I'm just showing you this one should come straight in my face, because I want to show you something. Now if you've got a broad face, a wider face and you want to narrow it, what you need to do is you need to move your face so that two thirds are in shadow, and one third isn't. Now if you've got a narrow face and want to broaden it, what you want to do is you want to move so to further in light why Third is in shadow and that's going to open your face up so my face looks bigger here, I've got a filler face. So what I want to do is I want to bring it across, and just slim it down ever so slightly by just creating the shadow. No, normally I'd have a bit more light on this side, I'm quite far away from the light, but it's a really good way of showing you two thirds.

One third lie, he's gonna slim the face. Whereas two thirds, open one first dark is gonna open up the face. So what I've got here is I've simulated some nice even light, I want to show you a few posing techniques. So this is a standard sort of shot. Now we've already touched on some things before, but I just want to really go over some really simple posing techniques when it comes to being in front of the camera for selfies. no one there to help you see go figure this out for yourself.

Now you'll notice over here, my background isn't that clean. So all I need is like Like I said, this area around my head and shoulders to be blank and plain so that when I do a profile picture, nice clean background. First thing I'm going to want to do is I'm going to want to turn my shoulders slightly, so I want to turn one shoulder into the camera. Now when you're posing, what you have to do is make micro adjustments. What most people do in the poses are go like this. And they make huge adjustments.

But what you want to do is just make tiny adjustments to like how you look. So now I'm creating a little bit more interest in shaping my body. Now if I pull forward ever so slightly, I'm gonna lift my chin but now too close to the camera. So what I need to do is I'm going to move back a little bit with my chair, it's gonna leave the light on the camera where they are, and I'm going to move my body into it. So now Okay, so now I'm losing the chin a little bit. Now when we want to just create a little bit of interest in the pose, what we need to do is to go ahead now there's a rule, okay, let me show you this rule, drop a shoulder, okay, if you're a man, tilt to the lower shoulder that's masculine.

If you're a woman, you tilt to the highest shoulder that's feminine and we're not talking, we don't want to be doing this local broken neck, what we want to do is just have slight just a slight little tilt until we find something that works. So for me, now, I'd be turning my shoulder leaning forward, put my weight forward onto my front foot, which is on the floor. I'm leaning forward now and I just tell Elsa slightly I'm pretty much got my face where I want it to be. So then it's about once we've done that, and as you can see, I have a little problem in my glasses. So probably take this shot without glasses, maybe. Again, try these things not to move till you get the glasses so there's no delay, so just drop it in a little bit.

And what I'm doing is a bit of a mouth shot here, I'm just looking for my eyebrows a little bit a little bit more masculine. And just this just a straight on at the camera. So just drop it ever slightly. And now I've got I'm getting to the place where I'm starting to like the way I'm looking. So the ladies, you want to draw up a little bit, find the angle where you want if you're doing a B sharp. This is the beauty of selfie photography, you can sit there and get the pose, right, I want you to know a few of the basics.

So what we've done, we've leaned forward, that's the key thing is that's going to pull the chin up the cameras a bit higher. So my camera is about here to me and and tilted down. So I'm in the middle of the frame, I could probably go a little bit higher in the composition, but I'm going to shoot it here, doing a crop in later and tidy this up. So I'm allowing some room to crop. So I'm in I'm going to tilt my head, I'm gonna then maybe change this way too. tilt my head to the lower shoulder.

And I'm good to go in it, but the lady I might tilt it the other way, or I might drop this shoulder back here. So raise the shoulder back here, tilt that way, or bring it giveaway until that way, whichever suits you best. Now, sometimes as well depending on your hair, when you're looking into the camera, you have to find what you think is the best place. So this slide for me is not so good because it's opening up in a lot of skin, a lot of big area. So this side is more friendly, because it doesn't look such a big area. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to turn and try that.

Try that until I find something that I actually like big is how do you deal with big it as well what you want to do if you've got large ears stick out a lot. We can turn your face until one disappears and then one lies flat against your skin. So you just have to angle it a little bit. Most of you got really sticky ears of the real trick is typing them back. But usually just by creating a little bit of an angle, you will diminish the size of the ears. You're going to see a lot of people do duck face so you know that is not the most How can I say this polite, it's not the best way to look on camera.

One of the most important things you can do is smile with your eyes. So when you're filming on camera, what you need to do is a lot of people smile. So you'll say smart. here's here's some smile thing you'll see. Now you say to a kid on camera, they'll do this go smile, okay. Now just, you know, and as adults, we continue to do that.

It's really interesting. I'm a commercial photographer. And when I'm taking pictures of people unlike right, we need to cut down on the smiling a little But so what I would recommend to people, and you might find you've got this gorgeous smile, it doesn't detract at all, what you might be able to do is get this big smile looks wonderful. But as a standard, those places start, smile with your eyes. Because you're trying to capture the inner warmth of the person, smile with your eyes. And then when it comes to the lips, smile, but start with your mouth, close the smile with your mouth closed.

So for me, it'd be something like I don't be like this from the camera. But like I've been arrested and only looking like this, like I'm a child, then I'll smile. And I really, I want to find the balance between all so that's what you have to do. So you have to own the camera. You have to literally find the shop. Now I want to encourage you that you know, I'm not the most genik person in the world, I hide behind the camera, I love to take pictures of other people, but I'm not really that keen.

I'm shy myself. And this is one of the key thing a lot of people don't like their own photo because they have a perception of how they look. But what you're trying to do is you're not trying to catch the person that the look actually trying to capture the emotion because people want to see a photo actually register the emotion in a photo. So if you're uncomfortable in front of camera, and you're not confident, you're going to express that. So by being focused on something happy, or warm, a really happy moment in your life and then taking your picture. You're gonna carry that across in the image that's really important.

So we're going to do lots of small movements, we're going to get it all right, but if at the end of the day inside, we're just thinking, I hate being in front of the camera, this is miserable. It's going to come across so it's the emotion of carry through into the face is really important. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a shot and we're going to edit that a little bit later. And we're going to show you some techniques and tricks. So let's start from scratch. I'm sitting in front of the camera nice and square, I could actually take that picture, I think that works.

Okay, for me, I'm gonna turn slightly, I'm gonna lift my head slightly to the love side. I don't want to be too much this way because of the forehead. So I'm just going to come across a little bit. I'm going to drop my head, making sure that no light in my glasses. And then we're going to take the which is plugged in, and all we're gonna do is press the plus we're going to take a picture. So I'm just took a couple there and we'll see what we can do with them in post.

So that's the basic supposing guys it's turn a little bit, a little bit interest linear way. Forward, gentlemen, lean to the lower shoulder, ladies. You might lean, lean to the higher shoulder, much more feminine, lean forward, choose the right type of light or two glasses if you're wearing glasses, get it and then take your picture really is as simple as that guys. And once you've got the basics, you can do crazy stuff you can do the teenage pictures. You know, my daughter loves to send me pictures when she's like this. You know, you can do all that stuff.

Just get the basics first get that profile picture, get that look. I think and guys if you know if you got you want to do this for work in your business is a great way to save some money for your business because you can literally get a load of people in front of a camera set up like this on you take a picture form once you've done it and like I said earlier, once you know this, you can actually start taking pictures of other people because you can move them around and pose them Really simply and easily