Taking a Great Facebook Profile Picture
Recently, I saw something online that struck me as a little funny: Someone was advertising a service to take portraits for Facebook profile photos. Why, I wondered, would anyone pay money to have their face snapped for a little 100-pixel thumbnail? Then I really started to notice... Forums are filled with people asking for advice on taking profile pictures. Folks seem to change their profile photo frequently rather than choosing a portrait and sticking with it, like you keep a driver's license photo. (My daughter changes her Facebook profile photo weekly.) I've already talked about general tips for taking portraits , but this seems like a great time to dive into tips specifically for taking great profile photos.
Think SquareTraditional portrait photos usually have a vertical orientation, more tall than wide. It's the very origin of the term "portrait orientation," in fact. That's not true about the photos used by most, if not all, social networking and sharing sites, though. Whether you're taking a picture for Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Windows Live, or some other site, the little frame that your photo sits in is probably going to be perfectly square, or very nearly so.
That can pose a challenge, since we tend to think about portraits as rectangular. You'll want to be sure that the camera is zoomed in (or you are physically close enough). When you compose the shot, put the emphasis on your face, not the rest of your body, or the square cropping will tend to make you appear miniscule, or show way too much of the background.
Use a Simple BackgroundSpeaking of the background, you might want to keep it really simple. Remember that your profile photo will be very small. At Facebook, for example, most people see a profile photo that's just 50 pixels square. That's like looking at a postage stamp from 3 feet away, so any details in the background will end up looking like noise. You might know what you're looking at, but that's only because you saw the photo when it had 10 million pixels in it. Facebook visitors probably won't have any idea what's going on.
Some people like to use props or a representative setting, but I think the best profile photos have a plain background. Recently, my wife decided she wanted a new profile photo and asked me to take a picture with her camera phone. Unfortunately, we were at a club waiting for a concert to start, and that is rarely the sort of place that's conducive to good photography. Luckily, I found a wall that was solid red and the lighting wasn't abysmal--so I took this shot, which she was quite happy with.
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