You’re looking to get tons of great Tinder photos, but it’d be so much easier with a friend. So you ask a friend for a hangout as the weather is nice, you grab couple drinks with you, and head out to the nice park close by.
There you hesitate to ask them because it feels awkward. It just doesn’t feel normal to ask your guy friend to take pictures of you, even if you know they too are on Tinder.
After a while though, you finally gather the courage and they agree to help! You give them your camera to take photos. They grab it, rise up, and take couple photos.
You take a look at the photos but…
They just plain look bad. You don’t look good in it. You give some feedback what they should change with next photos.
They take another round and… a bit better, but not by much. Another round of feedback and a third round of photos.
… Again, they end up bad.
They sit down, pass the camera back to you and take a sip of their drink. Looking content in helping you with your request they ask “did it come out good?”.
You answer “Yeah, they came out nice” while contemplating the futility of it all.
Why do the photos end up so far from the photos you dreamed of?
Your skill and interest levels differ
The chances are, you already have some idea what to focus on when taking Tinder photos. In comparison, it might be first time your friend has even thought about more than pointing the camera towards a person and pressing shoot.
So in other words, the important aspects appear clear and apparent to you while your friend misses even the most obvious tips.
Give them a Feedback Loop
Give your friend a reference picture that you want them to achieve. It can be an inspiration photo, but from my experience, taking a photo yourself with your friend as a model gives the best kind of a reference. Send this reference photo to their phone so they can have both their phone with the reference and your camera side-by-side for comparison.
This reference photo gives them something that they can try to copy 1-to-1 which acts as a positive feedback loop and gives them feelings of success.
Once they nail the photo framing and angle, ask them to keep taking the photos while you vary your pose while doing the action.
Further if using a DSLR or mirrorless camera, utilize all the automation features like aperture priority on the lowest f-stop and face autofocus to get the best quality photos you can. This your friends can focus only on keeping the same frame and angle, and just shoot photos constantly.
So to summarize
- Take the photo you’d like for yourself using your friend as the model
- Send the reference photo to your friend’s phone so they can compare side-by-side what they see when taking the photo and what you’d like
- If using proper camera, utilize all the automation features i.e. aperture priority and face autofocus
- Ask them to take tons of photos while you vary your pose
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