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How to direct her

Everything else in this guide is about light and angles. This one's about the human in front of the lens. Direct her with warmth and a few clear cues, and she'll relax into photos she actually likes — which is the whole point.

The annotated breakdown is inside.

The usual miss

"Stand there. No, like this. Turn. Smile. No — natural smile." A barrage of vague, slightly critical corrections, delivered from behind a phone that's hiding your face. She tenses up, the smile freezes, and every correction makes it worse. The photos come out stiff, and she walks away feeling like she's "just not photogenic." The lighting was never the problem. The direction was.