How to Select the Best Photos for Your Online Dating Profile from a Singles Coach

Internet Dating Profile Writing Advice: Choose Your Best Photographs for Your Web Singles Sites Profile

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Current dating sites and apps now make it so easy to upload pictures to your profile directly from your smart phone, but just using casual photos from your phone’s camera roll may not be optimal to equip you to attract love. What criteria should you use to select the best photos to make your online dating profile stand out amidst the generic sea of sameness personals bios.

Back in the Neanderthal early days of computer dating the singles seeking love on the net really were pursuing blind dates via the web. Digital cameras weren’t yet ubiquitous. What am I saying? People didn’t yet have multiple digital cameras themselves let alone public access to ask your friends to take photos where everyone in a group carries a pretty good digital camera. In the first days of website dating singles couldn’t post dating profile photographs. I know, the dark ages, right?

What was the problem?

The early cyber-dating matchmaking websites didn’t have the technological capability to allow singles there to upload, post, and share digital photos. Even once the internet dating sites started to offer the technology to upload digital photos, since people didn’t readily own digital cameras, the beautiful women simply didn’t bother to go through the extra steps to get digital pictures.

Since owning a digital camera wasn’t yet commonplace, singles didn’t expect and require their potential dates to post profile photos. Of course, those days are long gone.

Back then you had to take your photos across town – by public transportation, out of your way, away from the office and your apartment, if you were a city single. Go to a place like Kinko’s, now Fedex Office, and have them convert your photos to jpegs. It was a massive chore. Not until around late 1998 did singles start to push people they were interested in meeting to go through that hassle.

And I’ll tell you, beautiful women just generally didn’t bother to do so until it was a lot easier to come by digital photographs. She was getting asked out for the initial meet-and-greet first date over at Starbucks. They didn’t take a lot of time and were generally done on weeknights. Singles just set them up and went on them to meet. More First Dates likely occurred, increasing everyone’s Law of Physics Dating Momentum.

Early pioneers of internet dating singles had to rely exclusively on their verbal descriptions to communicate their appearances to each other.

Then singles had to take physical photographs of each other and take them to a store that had the machines to scan the photos and convert them specifically to a digital format.  The stores then saved the digital photograph files to a CD which you could take home with you to upload at the singles websites via your computer.

It was a very lengthy and cumbersome method to taking and sharing photos of yourself online with prospective dates at the singles sites. The process for photo sharing once the photograph feature was so laborious that many singles simply didn’t bother.

It wasn’t until the days of the early 21st century when digital cameras became affordable and common place that posting photos in singles’ profiles really took off at the dating sites. Once the technology was there singles didn’t yet have the habit of taking thousands of photos and using them. But we did get used to it quickly. Once you have a ton of digital pictures to choose from, criteria to select the best photos started to develop as we studied what prompted for more responses as a well as know what pictures to use to target for the right kind of attention.

Once posting and sharing at the internet dating sites became the new baseline normal practice then singles took to posting tons of photographs online.

Many of the online dating sites have the option for singles to post not only a few photographs of themselves but also photo albums.

Now all too many singles have fallen into the habit of posting loads of their photos at the dating websites.

Internet Personals Ads Profile Writing Advice: How to Pick Your Best Dating Profile Photos

Do work with a professional photographer, and do also start collecting digital photographs of yourself.  You want to build up have a good 20+ photographs to pick and choose from.  When you have a number of digital photos collected, then you have the option to pick and choose your best photos to display you looking great. With over 20 photographs to select from, you are not stuck just having to use low quality photos of yourself to post at the dating sites.

What to look for in your dating photos for your singles site profile:

  1. Face Frame Focus: Do select internet dating profile photos that frame your face.
  2. Eyes Are the Mirrors of Your Soul: Do choose internet personal ads photos that accentuate your eyes.
  3. Smile and the World Smiles with You: Do select online dating profile photographs which emphasize your wonderful smile.

Dating Profile Photos Selection Tip: Just Because You Can Take a Photo Doesn’t Mean You Should Snap Photos

Because of the casual preponderance of digital cameras (on our smart phones) to capture every moment of our lives and share them online on the web easily with others, all too many singles are including photographs of themselves what might be described as artistic, goofy, or unwise photos.

The goofy photos you want to avoid selecting to include in your online dating profile include those displaying you with a ridiculous facial expression.

The artistic photographs to refrain from including in your internet matchmaking profile include your poetic view of life.  Please omit photos of ducks walking down the street or sunset photographs. Only include photographs of you in your internet personal ad profile.

When you know what to emphasize in your dating profile photos and what to exclude, you massively increase your singles site profile responsiveness. That leads to more first dates.  And a great first date leads to more second dates, and who know what could happen from there?

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell

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April Braswell

April Braswell is internationally recognized as America's Midlife Dating and Relationship Mentor and the award winning expert columnist at DatingAdvice.com. Bringing over 40 years of Sales and Marketing expertise, April is a the trusted Small Business Consultant and Coach to Leading Executives and Emerging Leaders. Author of best seller, Get Swipe Right. April coaches marriage-minded men and women to find and attract love, your best life partner. Life Love Love relationship. Love after 40 and 50. Photos appear by licenses with iStock. All rights reserved.

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  1. Even if the guy is cute, if it’s a selfie in his undershirt in the toilet, I think he looks like a jerk.

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