Picture Feedback Megathread

@Adrizzle Interesting theory, can make sense, but as you said, we need more data points to prove that a guy with (good) smartphone pics do better on OLD in 2024 than a guy with pro pics.

This seems odd to me as the goal of having pro pics is to stand out. It has been proven to work many times by many dating profile photographers. I'm curious to know what @MILFandCookies would think about this debate. I seriously doubt that going from high quality shots from a full frame camera to lower quality pics from an iPhone would yield better results for anyone's profile. We would need to make an experiment of shooting the same profile for someone with an iPhone and with a pro camera to prove that.

I tend to think that this rumor of "smartphone pics being better than pro pics now" started because of how OLD went significantly worse for the last couple of years, to the point of having a lot of guys with great pro pics not getting the expected results.

Why OLD went down the drain would be a better question IMO. And for this question, I think there are multiple factors at work to explain why it has become so hard to get a decent amount of matches now. The first obvious answer is dating apps trying to always milk more money from guys, like Tinder making boosts almost useless since around mid-2023...

On the topic of professional or non-professional pics:

I think a solid mix and some social intelligence are important here. Only staged “model” pics seem off-putting and tryhard especially as a man, online dating and on IG. You want a solid mix even less professional pics in relation imo.

I feel the same way when I see a profile of a woman who only has pictures from heavily edited photo shoots. Somehow it hurts her more than it helps her if it's just (!) pictures like that.

I agree with the above, I’d say the goal is to look as high value as possible while also looking as authentic and candid as possible. This means high quality, professional photos but also a cell phone pic or two and more importantly having photos that don’t all look posed/contrived and aren’t edited too much to look overdone. Especially these days anything that looks too perfect raises suspicion of being AI generated

maybe I need a profile with a few of each

i think there is some truth to this. i've had many people think i am a bot/fake account hell even girls i get with sometimes tell me the pics seemed too good to be true and they almost didn't believe it, seems to be negatively impacting my results i could otherwise have. trying to throw in some funny/artsy pics and a few more authentic looking ones rather than just modeling/edgy ones and will see how it goes and keep this updated