Two Things I Wish I Knew Before Creating an Instagramable Picture

I believe that many girls out there wanna have perfect instragam-able photo like a model has. So that’s what I and my friend are doing, exploring things that we never did before. Yap! Photo hunting! We have a friend called Bang Inro (you can stalk his Instagram account @inro_jd) who has an interest in photography and we have so many beautiful places in Bali. So, we have enough, a photographer and spots.

When I told this to my other friend who has an interest in photography too, he said that the key of a good portrait photograph is expression. I could say that was the hardest part when we taking photo. We went to do the photoshoot twice, just for fun. First with my friend called Vivi Purba and second with my friend called Alvionita.

In my first experience, the photographer asked me to pose with no smile or happy expression. The reason was there were so many photos that I have with smile, so I had to give the other natural human emotions like happiness of eyes, genuine mood or natural expression. Guess what the result? It was terrible! Not to mention I was insecure with myself. It was weird when he took my face from the right side (I prefer the left). I was not comfortable with my chubby cheek, thigh, belly, arm, and this feeling didn’t help my expression at all. Thank God that Bang Inro was sooo calm in responding all of our complains of our own body, hahaha. At that time, we did photoshoot at Mangrove Forest and Dreamland Beach. You can see the photos from my first experience of being a model below.

Another chance, we did the photoshoot again in Serangan Beach. The photographer still forbade me to smile, but I don’t know why, this time I felt better. I tried not to complain too much and trusted it to the photographer. What I had to do was posed and gave the natural expression. And the result is…. Tadaaa… I think it’s better than the first. Right pose able to highlight the features and hide even the most obvious imperfections.

Don’t ever be afraid of exploring new things because they will always give you something to reflect. We do this just for fun. I am not a model and now I realize that being a model is not easy at all. One thing important that I learn from this-for-fun-photoshoot is just be CONFIDENT with yourself. EVERY PART OF YOUR BODY IS BEAUTIFUL WHEN YOU TREAT IT RIGHT. Being confident prove that you appreciate your body, YOUR LIFE. Every girl is beautiful on her own way and being the way that you are is enough.

Another important thing I get is don’t ever dare to order and complain too much to the photographer or he will order you back to go home :p

- September, 2016

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