Online Dating Picture Number Two: The Social Picture

What is this picture really about?

Ok, let’s cut through the crap and just keep it simple and real. This picture really is about a couple of things, one, you have friends ,two  your friends are cool and three you go to fun places with them.  

Remember guys, it is a dating profile, with the emphasis on profile. A profile should convey who you are, what you do. It should be a sign you are fun, interesting, and just stick out a little bit from all the others. That’s also why the fundamentals of each picture is so important.  

While this picture is about having friends, and going to cool and fun places you love with them. The details are what gives you the edge over all of the other profiles: Your grooming, your clothes, the background and camera angle.

Now let’s get to what makes a good social picture and a bad one.. 

A good social picture is with you and your friends, you’re having fun and you love being around each other. A bad social picture, or the quick fix one is posing with a random dude, you don’t know or care about, or being someone you are not.  

Social Picture Online Dating

Not my friend, and I don’t like biergarten’s, I like fruity drinks and frozen cocktails.

Guys, I made that quick fix mistake, the result as you’ll see isn’t very good. Then I got it right, by enjoying my life with my friends, and going to a fun place, (with the emphasis on the people part). Ironically in the same part of town I’d meet my  girl, otherwise known in this business as my true ten). 

Guys,  taking this picture with people you love means you’ll look happier, smile and just convey a cool natural feeling of you enjoying your best life. That’s what makes you fun and attractive, not posing at a Beirgarten with an essential stranger. 

Do what you love with who you love: That's the central element here. 

Look to keep it real, I’m sure me and my single friends probably took this picture knowing we were going to put it on a dating profile, or post it for the gram, but for me I didn’t even think of it that way, I just remember going out with my friends, seeing my favorite Long Island Cover Band, and then going to this random pub after. 

Social Picture for a dating profile

These are my friends, I like these people.

Guys without the camera even going on or the phone coming out, I had the two essentials to this picture down pat, hanging out with people I love and doing a thing I love (live music, with a great cover band). 

So where should you go? Who should you go with? 

Now that we got the people down, go to a fun place, a place you love, or your friends love. For example, I love food festivals, I love live music (specifically an above average cover band). Here’s a great question to ask yourself…

Who do I love hanging out with? Where do I love going? Or What do I love doing? 

Boom Now you have the people and place for your social picture. 

Now let’s see the evidence

Let's see how the pictures compare to when you take this picture with someone you don’t know, like, or want to hang around, versus your friends and family. One more little thing, I want to stress this…

The people part is the most important. Why? Because like I said earlier, being around the people you love gives you that fun, natural confident smile, that is your true self, your innate fun, loving, confident self. 

Here we have the first social picture (even with my insanely edited face), it is an average 6.7. Guys the amount of work and people I do not even want to ever be around again to take this picture is truly a lot for a 6.7

Look at this low value score only a 6.7

Now let’s see what happens when we go out and just take the picture with people we love hanging around, you know my friends and family. And especially what happens when you are out doing something you love with them (example Long Island’s favorite cover band Mean Machine). 

Look at that 7.7, that’s high value.

Well what do you know about 7.7! That’s right, no edits, no beergarten, literally a dive bar in Long Beach, Long Island. Why? Just a hunch here, I’m with the people I love, I look happy, I'm having fun, I feel confident and just give off a cool natural smile. 

Guys, if I can do it, you can definitely do it. 

Guys, the trick is to have fun, have fun taking these pictures and improving your life, enjoy the struggle, because the struggle and problems are sign of life. In this case it’s a sign that you are figuring it out, and want to do better, in a way that is true to yourself. 

Just don’t forget the details, which is what makes this picture the best possible version of you. 

The grooming (haircut day of picture), clothes (white t-shirt. Dark jeans recommended), the plain and simple background, and the camera angle. 

Camera Angle

1. Portrait Mode

2. Shoot it with mostly your top showing and just a little bit of your jeans.

3. Have the Camera Facing at a slight angle/tilted upward (this puts you more on top of the photo, which makes for a much better picture than in the middle or the bottom).

  1. This means the person taking the picture should have the phone lower as well (such as kneeling on the floor or holding it around their stomach to with the camera tiled up to get that angle (remember tilt that phone upward so that you are on top of that photo/frame.

4. Ideally try to get three people, with one being straight in the middle, and you you facing at an obtuse angle (otherwise known as greater than 90 degrees)

5. Also the other person in this picture on the left should also be facing and positioned at an angle greater than 90 degrees.

Remember What is picture is really about.

Something I really want to stress with you guys is this, these pictures should be a byproduct of having an awesome fun life, that you are crafting one day at a time. 

When I wrote about that rooftop picture, I took it at a friend’s wedding. To be honest it’s probably my favorite wedding, I had a great time, is it no wonder the unedited picture came out to a 9.0 on photofeeler.com

Now let’s look at this one. Is it any coincidence that a fun night out with my friends and listening to my favorite cover band made for a great picture? Probably not. 

So guys, go have some fun with your friends, go to your favorite places, and take some pictures. 

Importantly if you are new here and following along, I’d definitely check out the blog post on my first dating profile picture, The Rooftop Picture, you can do so by clicking here. 

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