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Lose the bling.
Wear clothes that fit.

Remove the Dubai-flex bracelet. Ditch the loud red panels and shirts that swallow your shoulders. Lower the camera to chest height. Keep the easy smile, the friend, and the cat; stop making the styling compete with them.

What’s wrong

Lose the Dubai-flex bracelet.

Stop putting a rhinestone wristband, gold watch, and shiny tie in the same close-up. Your wrist is stealing the shot.

Edited photo 1 of Leif
Original photo 1 of Leif
The fix

Keep one watch. Bin the bling.

Remove the bracelet. Simplify the shirt and tie. Let your face be the first thing people notice.

What’s wrong

Stop shooting from the ceiling.

Bring the camera down. This overhead angle and sagging polo make your shoulders disappear.

Edited photo 2 of Leif
Original photo 2 of Leif
The fix

Lower the camera. Fit the polo.

Shoot from chest height. Pick sleeves that sit on your upper arms. Keep the light and skin texture natural.

What’s wrong

Stop giving the floor half the photo.

Keep the smile and the friend. Lose the distant, downward view that makes you look swallowed by the apron.

Edited photo 3 of Leif
Original photo 3 of Leif
The fix

Move closer. Keep the real smile.

Lower the camera, frame the two of you more tightly, and straighten the shirt. Keep the arm-around-the-shoulder moment.

What’s wrong

Stop drowning in that bowling shirt.

Lose the loud red panels and sleeves hanging toward your elbows. The shirt is swallowing your shoulders.

Edited photo 4 of Leif
Original photo 4 of Leif
The fix

Shorten the sleeves. Lose the bracelet.

Keep a little room in the shirt. Fit the shoulders, swap the red for black, and take the shiny wrist clutter off.

What’s wrong

Keep the knit. Fire the camera angle.

Stop pointing the camera down at an outfit that finally fits. The overhead view is doing it no favors.

Edited photo 5 of Leif
Original photo 5 of Leif
The fix

Shoot straight on. Drop your shoulders.

Keep the knit and trousers. Lower the camera, relax your stance, and flatten the puffed-up hair.

What’s wrong

The jewelry distracts from the moment.

The cat and eye contact already work. The jewelry and busy sheets compete with them.

Edited photo 6 of Leif
Original photo 6 of Leif
The fix

Clean up the styling. Keep the person.

Lose the jewelry. Use white sheets, tidier hair, and a more open shoulder line. Keep the original gaze and gentle moment with the cat.

u/tinaismediocre · excerpt

Also, you need to ask your friends to stop taking photos of you from a downward angle, it's making you look very small.