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As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh. The female rating is particular interesting.
by abossy 17y ago
As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh.
The female rating is particular interesting. Are only ugly men on OKCupid (myself included)? Or do men look worse in pictures than women? After all, remove the makeup, carefully selected attire, and fancy hair, and you have your average male. Even photogenic men don't look as good as their photogenic counterparts, in my opinion.
- vaksel 17y agomost guys shoot from the hip when it comes to pictures, women prep the crap out of it. Hell I know a girl who used photoshop to tweak a photo she used as a profile picture on facebook
- netcan 17y agoIf you're serious about online dating you should probably be getting professional profile photos.
- psyklic 17y agoI disagree. I've done quite a bit of online dating, and professional photos (a) don't show your fun side, and (b) often look quite different than how you look on an average day. What this results in is me distrusting them -- before I meet anyone, I need to see a candid shot of them in natural lighting.
- Tichy 17y agoI think there would have to be a special kind of service: a photographer who can take photos that look as if they were casual, but aren't. Even for Twitter and other social networks casual is probably better, but few photographers (if any) understand that so far.
- gaius 17y agoAny photojournalist worth his or her salt could pull that off. Might be a nice little side-income.
- rbritton 17y agoI am a photographer, and I've had inquiries for this. No one is willing to pay more than a few dollars, which doesn't even offset the time required or the depreciation of the equipment.
- warfangle 17y agoAs a photographer, what is your opinion on the "going rate" or similar for a spread of five natural looking photos, compared to what you get offered ("just a few bucks")? Curious if it's similar to what happens when people in "typical" social circles find out I'm a freelance web developer, offering as little as $100 for what could easily (after graphic design and so forth) be two weeks of work.
- Tichy 17y agoWhat would be a decent rate for that kind of work? More than classical portraits? Honestly the "social networking" photographs would be more important to me than the classical photographs for job applications. As they say, job applications are dead - but employers and clients are likely to look at social network profiles...
- netcan 17y agoHow much would it have to cost to be worth your while? I don't know where you are, but around here (Australia) little mall studios for glamour shots are quite common. People seem willing to pay $50-$100 for some underwear shots.
- netcan 17y agoGet professionally taken casual shots in natural lighting.
- jsz0 17y agoLook on the bright side: If 80% of men classify as "worse-looking than medium" then they are actually on a more level playing ground with each other.