| | How important is a Good Photo..??Page 4 of 5 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) | | I think a good photo is like the most important thing on here. A good profile is important too but attention is caught by the photo. | |
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| How important is a Good Photo..??
Posted: 7/3/2012 12:56:29 PM | | Photos mean nothing to me. I'm not here to date. I care more about the profile text. I will absolutely read/delete an email that just has a shirtless guy attached to it with no profile whatsoever over an average looking guy who can keep my attention. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2012 1:57:39 PM | Although I agree on deleteing the shirtless photos and I read profiles thoroughly before sending any message I can't help that pics are what grab me.
I fall for the ones that show at least 1 good head shot, 1 in action (doing something they love) | |
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Posted: 7/3/2012 9:50:02 PM | | I can't stand blurry pictures. I don't expect professional quality pictures on here but at least don't make them blurry. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2012 11:35:54 PM | | I will not look at ANYONE without a photo! When I look, I like to see a clear and recent head shot and full body shot. Keep your shirt on and have your friend take your photo. I hate seeing your toilet in the mirror. Ew. It is also good to see you with your friends and with your hobbies and interests. Having said that, if I never see another middle aged man with a motorcycle, it will be too soon. Just because you have a bike, you are not a bad boy and therefore more appealing! There are also actually men who post photos of their cats- just the cats. EEEEK! ~~ Just as important as the good photos are good headlines and photo captions. Spelling counts! So does originality. If you say that you are going to put a headline in later and don't bother to do it now, you may have missed your only chance! Do you think I am going to bookmark you and come back and see if you have posted something witty in a few days? Hell no! I am moving on and looking for someone who had the wits about himself to post something interesting in the first place. Try to be appealing! | |
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Posted: 7/3/2012 11:44:51 PM | | I’d rather see an empty head silhouette with a great sense of humor and a healthy attitude than a bunch of stupid pixelly pictures that will mean absolutely nothing when he opens his mouth. | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 1:20:01 AM | | Women can work wonders with a camera man lol! Their pictures are so deceptive it makes no sense. I've just about seen it all lol! I always ask for a full body picture becanse many of them will try to hide their bodies. | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 5:26:38 AM | | It's amazing to me how many profiles I come across where women aren't smiling. They just look angry in all of their pictures. I automatically think that woman isn't very happy and doesn't like her life much. I know it may be wrong for me to think that but pictures are the first thing that grabs your attention before you get to the actual profile. | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 6:56:42 AM | How important is a Good Photo..??
Worthless.
It takes a miracle to date on here anyways. With the amount of crap you`ll see in different "dealbreaker" threads, it's a surprise anyone gets out of their houses anymore........................
I used to think I was insane.
I discovered coming here that I have a LOOOOOONNNGGG way to go.............
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Posted: 7/4/2012 7:05:04 AM |
1 in action (doing something they love)
We are not allowed to post THAT on here..but maybe in private images.... | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 4:13:44 PM | | I find that I will check a womans profile with a bad photo to get a better look just as much as I will check a womans profile with a good photo. I'm just weird that way, lol. | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 4:41:48 PM |
How important is a Good Photo..??
Vital. And not just one good photo ~ I need to see a number of them here and then there is the infamous cell-picture-bounce-back-and-forth that happens LONG before I will agree to meet anyone in person. I learned my lesson LONG ago about old/fake/PhotoShopped pictures. There is NOTHING worse than arriving to meet someone you've never seen before. I will never understand those who do not understand that tricking someone into meeting is not going to end well. Personally? I don't post my "best" pictures online for one reason: I'd much rather be a pleasant surprise than an unpleasant disappointment. But? Not everyone does it how I do it. JMO  | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 4:58:58 PM | Good pics:
Body shots -- withOUT the landscapes.
Face shots.
Smiling.
Bad pics:
No smiles. Makes me suspicious.
Any pic that she is not in.
Group pics. I'm sure she's in there somewhere!
Landscapes (where she's too tiny if she's in the pic at all).
Pets (I want to see you not your pet).
Kids (not relevant to my decision).
Skiing pics -- you're all bundled up like the abominable snowman!
Bed pics. Really?
Explicit butt pics. Again, really?
Fingers in your mouth. Yet again, really?
Talking on the cell phone. Couldn't even hang up long enough to have your pic taken, huh? Mental note... | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 5:05:00 PM | The approach to the photo generally indicates the approach to the profile, the online process, and I suspect maybe even to dating and life itself.
so
My most hateds were badly focused shots of a messy room where the cellphone in the mirror appeared larger than the person's head. Reduced to thumbnail it looks even more like a jumbled mess, and I didn't really much care whether the mess was due to lazy inattentiveness vs. clueless ignorance.
but lately
I saw a couple cool photos I find pleasing to look at in thumbnail. Both were in black and white. One I spotted in the forums, of 3-4 young guys in black suits caught in mid-air in front of a white wall. The other rolls across the top of my inbox of a man in a tuxedo simply standing by 3 black cows.
I'm not looking to meet, but I can't resist an interesting photo. And that's supposed to be the point -- to make us click on the profile, even if out of a "what the hell is that?" reflex. | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 5:20:52 PM | I pretty much think of the photo(s) as being the profile. If you don't have a photo that your targets are looking for, then unlikely they will find you. You can find them and maybe get a one-time reply, but the photo(s) really do carry the profile. In some cases things in stats can play a big part in deciding on a message (height, body type, smoking, profession, kids), but you usually can't see that right away. You have to click the photo first.
VVVVVVV...I guess I should've specified for a guy's profile. For a woman's profile all it basically has to do is say 'woman' and it will drag them in as if in a net. | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 5:31:05 PM | | When I don't have a picture up, I get just as much email. My profile is all that! I know how to reel them in. If I was here to date, I would have dates morning, noon and night if I chose to. But I'm not here to date. I even change the settings and profile to say I have 10 kids, smoke , do drugs and drink 3 or more times a week. and on welfare. My next change will say that I am pregnant with triplets. just for shyts and giggles...I still get email. So NO, photos mean nothing. Everyone needs to stop being so serious around here. Nobody cares how nice you are on a dating profile. Nice is boring. Get a personality and get off the site and find people in real life. It's that simple. | |
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Posted: 7/4/2012 5:50:54 PM | ^^^^^
I just read your profile. Wow...many great nuggets of truth in there. You have an exotic look to you, a big plus. | |
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Posted: 2/4/2013 7:45:15 AM | Some great comments here.
I'll add another. People who insist on current photos yet, post theirs that obviously have been on POF for a very long time. I'm referring to the photos with the POF notice on the lower edge. I'm not sure, but I think POF stopped with that notice well over two years ago. Still, for anyone to continue using them, and on many profiles as the only ones, in my opinion is not a good idea. | |
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Posted: 2/4/2013 8:05:29 AM | | Hey Andi xx I wanted to ask your opinion about my smile!? and shirt, i tried to send you a message, it seems im just to old now tsk; i blame the parents! xx Ian | |
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Posted: 2/4/2013 8:55:34 AM | Markus and his staff will tell you that having a photo is important. Having a good photo helps. The comments on this thread aid in determining what comprises "a good photo" - for some people. BUT, in reality what is a photo, or even the written profile? I suggest that if anyone is here on POF to truly meet someone, then one should not rely on either. With today's "tools", are you really looking at a true photo of a person?? It is not just that people use out of date photos to appear younger, but with tools such as photo-shop, who knows what the real individual looks like IRL. As far as the written word goes, do we know who actually wrote the words in the profile? It is like a resume that one has paid to have done for them; the individual can hardly recognize themselves in the description.
The concept of how important is a good photo is relevant to some who post pictures. I would suggest that more important is that some people do NOT post photos. I am guilty myself in that I quickly reject many who's photo is not appealing to me. Without a photo, those who are not photogenic (for whatever reason) might stand a chance in that their profile might get read - if a good profile id and a catchy come on phrase is used to pique a person's interest. But many who never get any feedback should strongly consider whether or not having a photo posted is a good thing.
Conversely, many who have great photos posted, lose on the profile description.
As one gal wrote, no one shows or writes about whether or not they have hairy legs; but as to insight in to the person, wouldn't you like to know.
Actually meeting and talking with any individual is the only way to go. Photo or no photo, good photo or not, well-written profile or not, IF you are not meeting in person, you are on POF for the forums. | |
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Posted: 2/4/2013 9:13:00 AM | | General question: i'm fat, hairy and saggy, which i don't care about, but is something you can't discuss without sounding crude and disgusting, like i just did, and people do ask for body photos. I generally wear garish tents - even my underwear consists of huge garish vests! - i don't own anything revealing (not due to body shape - rather, both are due to four decades of not caring a flying monkey what i look like. You can't take your boobs to the gym, and if i had the money plastic surgery costs i hope i'd spend it better - children are starving for heaven's sake) so even if i had a mirror or a tripod, no photo of me in clothes would show you anything. So what to do? I have in the past had some really awful dates listening to annoying men go on about my being really ugly (i have no sympathy) but i don't want to waste more of my or anyone else's time. After all, if you can't get it up, you can't, i don't mind if someone can't like me for my body, all's fair in love and war. But, how to show it? What sort of photo? | |
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Posted: 2/4/2013 12:29:06 PM |
How important is a Good Photo..??
A good fake photo can fill up one's inbox.
With today's "tools", are you really looking at a true photo of a person??
Indeed. | |
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Posted: 2/4/2013 3:49:11 PM | It's too bad that we can not identify profiles in the forums, for there are some with excellent photos - and not of the cheesecake variety either. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words - and in some cases as far as eye appeal on a dating site goes - worth more. I just came across one of a gal that was so "elegant" - the picture of her was tastefully done, a good shot of her face, dressed up with makeup yes, sitting at a restaurant table probably, smiling for the camera while holding a wine glass. One just wanted to check out her profile. (Too bad she lives far away from me otherwise I would send her an email telling her the above.) Simply put, if one is serious about "dating", a good photo is essential and worth the effort to have and provide.
It would benefit this thread if there was a way to show examples of how to pose a good photo - not a professional shoot, but a decent, simple shot anyone could take. While there are some here on POF, they are rare. It is easy to say what to avoid in a photo. I do know that in the case of many photos, people need to have some positive criticism for many photos turn people off instead of attracting their eye and interest. | |
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