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moonette is offline moonette Post #11  December 26,2011, 11:47am
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If you're not comfortable with friends or family doing photos, you could call the local photo studios and ask about a portrait package done outside. Tell them what it's for. It's an expense, but so is a dating site.

On sites that are searchable, like Match, people often restrict the searches to profiles with photos. So your profile may rarely have been seen.

Get happy in your life to ramp up your confidence. A friend of mine who's 85 gets asked out by guys 10 years younger.
 
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Sassafras54 wrote :
Here are eH articles on Photos -- Dating Photos on eHarmony Advice

I'm sorry you feel like you'll get laughed at if you tell friends you want to date ... are your friends really that mean?? I used to feel that way too, and not that long ago really (I'm 57) but I went ahead and told people anyway and surprise! no one was surprised. I think most people know that most people want to love someone; it's not a shock. And if you're their friend, they must like and appreciate you and will assume that some man will also. Right?

And by now just about everyone has either done online dating, or knows friends/relatives/co-workers who have, and knows couples who met online. It's not waaaaaaaaaaaaay out there, any more.

Good luck to you and to all of us!
Thanks for posting that link! I appreciate it.

It's not that my friends are that mean. I had to move away from where I lived most of my life and so I really don't have any close friends anymore. Wanting to date is not something I would share with my coworkers.
 
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eharmonyjc wrote :
My profile pictures are as follows:
1) at a friend's party
2) at a work function (aka a party)
3) With a friend on a day-trip to the mountains
4) One I took myself with my auto-timer on my digital camera.

I picked a somewhat nice background, got the camera propped up on a fireplace mantle with a rock, and figured out how to use the timer on my digital camera. It took many tries to get a good one, mainly cause I was figuring out how to use the timer. I probably took 30 photos, and maybe 3 of them were good. I did feel a bit silly doing it but the picture turned out cute in the end.
I also have a couple of photos of me doing things that friends took - I had my camera, was taking other pictures, asked them to take some of me. The others I took myself, in different clothes, in different places. I used my camera propped up. It needs to be at about the same height as your face, if you don't have a tripod.(which I currently don't) Sitting, a countertop or sometimes a table with a some books will do. A countertop can also take an ok full body shot at some distance. Look through it propped, don't crop in the camera, crop later.

Most cameras have a 10 second delay so you have time to get in the picture. What's best is if you can also set it to take 10 pictures in a row. Move around a bit, try different smiles, etc. Take lots. If you do ask friends to take for you, ask them to take at least 2, preferably 3. To get good photos pros take many and choose very few.
 
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jov27 wrote :
Most cameras have a 10 second delay so you have time to get in the picture. What's best is if you can also set it to take 10 pictures in a row. Move around a bit, try different smiles, etc. Take lots. If you do ask friends to take for you, ask them to take at least 2, preferably 3. To get good photos pros take many and choose very few.
That's good advice to take a lot of photos. Most people have access to a digital camera, so it is much easier to take a lot of pictures. I have a friend that takes photos quasi-professionally. Most of what he does are sports pictures, but he does a lot of other pictures too. On a typical night, he might take 800 pictures and it can be amazing to see how much a split second can make between getting an average picture and a really good picture. That point holds with other pictures too. A slight tweak of a position or a facial expression can make a dramatic difference in the quality of a picture.

I'm bad about taking pictures. Because of that, most of the personal photos in my collection are work-related. Right or wrong, I also try to stick to pictures of just me to post in a dating profile, so that can further limit pictures. I've had friends take pictures, but I'd like to have a bigger pool to draw from.
 
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I also have a couple of photos of me doing things that friends took - I had my camera, was taking other pictures, asked them to take some of me. The others I took myself, in different clothes, in different places. I used my camera propped up. It needs to be at about the same height as your face, if you don't have a tripod.(which I currently don't) Sitting, a countertop or sometimes a table with a some books will do. A countertop can also take an ok full body shot at some distance. Look through it propped, don't crop in the camera, crop later.

Most cameras have a 10 second delay so you have time to get in the picture. What's best is if you can also set it to take 10 pictures in a row. Move around a bit, try different smiles, etc. Take lots. If you do ask friends to take for you, ask them to take at least 2, preferably 3. To get good photos pros take many and choose very few.
Thank you. Those are some good ideas. I do have a digital camera and I'm sure there's a way to take a photo with a time delay.
 
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I have a number of photos on my eHarmony profile. Two were professionally taken, one was for my church's directory and I have on a suit and tie, the other was from my high school reunion and while I am dressed up it is a bit more casual than the suit and tie photo. The rest of my photos are ones taken at various dinners with friends. My friends are always taking pictures whenever we get together so there is always a few of me that I can find one to put up on my profile.
 
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SixFtTallWoman wrote :
Thank you. Those are some good ideas. I do have a digital camera and I'm sure there's a way to take a photo with a time delay.
Some cameras also have an option for a handheld wireless trigger, a handy little device I use on occasion.

Shooting lots of pics is a very good idea! Maybe hundreds to get a couple good ones.
 
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Shooting lots of pics is a very good idea! Maybe hundreds to get a couple good ones.
This is very true. Even professional photographers will toss out more pictures than they keep.
 
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You can get portraits done at those mall studios for under $20 with a cd with the images, about $15 more for each additional pose. Therefore they take about 150 shots, you pick the top 3 and pay about $50-75.

/that's how we do our christmas cards.

Then add a couple of shots of you doing stuff you like...out hiking or riding bikes or herding cats....whatever.
 
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I use some self taken cell phone shots. But, not the kind that are reflections in the mirror. I once took about 30-40 shots of myself before I got one I liked. I also have one taken by my mom at an amusement park and one by a friend while ice fishing. Oh, and then one at a Fourth of July fireworks display taken by a young girl who happened to be sitting near us. I just use what I have and if I don't have I find a way to take it. My new phone is limiting on self portraits, however. It blurs easily and taking one of myself is a big pain. I just ask a friend to use her camera if I think I need a new one.
 
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