Somewhere, there is a person who will one day sit across a table from you. They'll watch you talk about something you love. They'll see you pause, laugh, lean in. And in that ordinary moment, they'll think: I like being here, with this person.

That moment is what a matrimonial photograph is supposed to promise.

Not a model's pose. Not a Pinterest recreation. Not the most impressive version of you — the most recognisable one. The you that the right person is going to fall for anyway.

This is how we think about matrimonial and dating profile portraits at our studio, and it changes almost everything about how the shoot is done.

"Say cheese" has produced more bad photographs than any camera ever has. It gives you a mouth shape — teeth bared, cheeks lifted — without the one thing that makes a smile a smile: something behind it.

Everyone knows the result. The photo where you're technically smiling and somehow it still isn't you. Eyes flat, jaw a little clenched, an expression you'd never make in real life because in real life, expressions aren't made — they happen.

This post is about how genuine smiles — the relaxed, teeth-showing, eyes-alive kind — actually get made in photographs. Not with tricks or filters, but with a two-step method any good portrait photographer should be running: one step for the body, one for the face. And a hundred-year-old economics principle explains why the method works so well.

If there is that one major factor that guarantees your chance of getting noticed online matrimony profile, it is your profile photograph, a well-shot headshot. Your headshot is your first impression and the deciding factor for you to get noticed or ignored. Once a first impression is made, it is very hard to change that perception of you. A good set of profile pictures communicates a lot about your personality and your seriousness in a relationship.

Psychologists say it takes about a tenth of a second to form an impression about the person we meet!

No wonder First Impression is the Best Impression

Most people are put off by poor quality photos that are

• low in resolution
• grainy/noisy and taken in dull light.
• having very old photographs in your profile.
• not having enough variations in your pictures used in your profile
• photos that don’t really represent who you are (your intro text says something which does not match your picture portfolio)

Read on to know more on how to go about creating an online profile that gets you the most responses from people you are most compatible with.

If there is that one major factor that guarantees your chance of getting responses on your online matrimony profile, it is your matrimonial profile photograph. Your photograph is your first impression, the deciding factor which decides if you get noticed or ignored. Once a first impression is made, it is very rare that the perception about you changes. A good profile (and photograph) also communicates your seriousness for a long term relationship / commitment.

According to psychologists  it takes just 1/10 of a second to form an impression about the person we meet! No wonder First Impression is the Best Impression

Poor quality photos that are of low resolution, grainy, and also not having enough photographs or posting old photos that don’t really represent who you are.

Read to know how to avoid the cardinal sins that you should avoid when creating your matrimonial profile.