https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-with-wiw-photos-no-light Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:32:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-with-wiw-photos-no-light#post-1128789 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 19:47:44 +0000 Joyce B 1128789@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I will be following your thread as I can use some advice in that department, too. Sorry that I have nothing to suggest. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-with-wiw-photos-no-light#post-1128698 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:09:44 +0000 lyn67 1128698@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I personally take my wiw picties&nbsp;in a&nbsp;mirror with a flash (sometimes I open the entrance door on my right side to have some extra light) but&nbsp; that's all I can do! </p> <p>My hall entrance is&nbsp; probably not all that propperly lightened, the mirror is&nbsp;narrow and too close, so have to make my&nbsp;picties angled for showing my shoes, too-, which I know doesn't make up to the&nbsp; YLF's high standards, but I just&nbsp;don't have the&nbsp;time, place and the right equipement to do a better job than that, so I guess must work with what I have. </p> <p>BTW along the times, and after deciding will let&nbsp;my face showing, too I&nbsp;have&nbsp;developed&nbsp;a kind of&nbsp;&nbsp;experience for minimizing the effecs of the flash in&nbsp;the mirror, it's not impossible, but can be difficult, indeed. You have to use the camera&nbsp;somehow from outside the mirror on your side, and a bit tilted. I mastered it:-)&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-with-wiw-photos-no-light#post-1128652 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:27:23 +0000 Parsley 1128652@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, first of all, if you don't have a full-length mirror, you need one ASAP, WIWs or not! Otherwise how can you know how you look before you go out to face the world?</p> <p>Flash + mirror is definitely not going to work. A camera (inexpensive ones aren't bad these days)&nbsp;that you can either set on a shelf with the self-timer, or use with a tripod is probably your best bet.</p> <p>Chronically your wardrobe, even if you didn't post the pictures, is worth the investment, IMO. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/help-with-wiw-photos-no-light#post-1128636 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:09:56 +0000 Adelfa 1128636@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi everybody. Lately it feels as though my style journey has ground to a halt. Part of this is because I've been moving and starting a new job. But maybe an even bigger part is that I haven't figured out how to take WIW photos in my new place.</p> <p>For one thing, I don't have a mirror. This is fixable. For another, I have no light. I thought this wasn't fixable, but Suz says she has no light either. Thoughts and questions: <ol> <li>I can't use a flash and a mirror at the same time, right?</li> <li>If I get one of those apps to put my phone's camera on a timer, the phone's flash probably won't be adequate, right? Or will it?</li> <li>So does this mean I need a camera and a tripod?</li> <li>Is there some camera that is minimally adequate for the job?</li> </ol> Thanks for any help you can give. I really miss the feedback that WIWs give, both just visually for myself, and of course especially from all of you! </p>