Grab your sunglasses and try this now! Save boring flat lays and turn your everyday items into high-fashion cover shots
This posing trick looks insanely high-end!
Summary
- For this “personified phone” shot, the phone showing a portrait photo is the main subject, and you place a real pair of glasses over the “eyes” on the screen.
- Styling with small items like wired headphones, fwee lip mud, or a vintage watch can really enrich the composition.
- When shooting, go for a top-down vertical angle, and stick to natural light or soft overhead lighting.
- This kind of flatlay setup is especially good for showcasing everyday new beauty launches, niche accessories, and your personal everyday-carry items.
Over the past two years, people have grown tired of polished, deliberately arranged commercial-style still lifes, favoring everyday snapshots with warmth and a sense of humor instead. Who knew that simply placing your everyday glasses flat on your phone screen could create the curious interactive effect of making the person in the photo seem to come alive? This kind of “personified phone flat lay” blurs the line between the virtual and physical, giving an otherwise ordinary display of personal items a playful, lively spirit.
- Related reading: Your rings and manicure are ready! You don’t have to show your face to create a casual lifestyle feel, and Girl Grip snapshots look even more polished
Key Technique Breakdown
Place a phone displaying a clean, understated photo against a cement-gray background, then layer a pair of retro glasses over it. Casually scatter small items in similar tones nearby, such as hand cream, lipstick, a watch, or a pair of wired earphones for a relaxed retro Y2K street-style feel.
To make the photo look like a fashion magazine spread, there are a few details to keep in mind. First, adjust your phone screen’s brightness to roughly match the surrounding natural light, avoiding glare from an overly bright screen or a loss of detail if it’s too dim. Rather than focusing solely on luxurious designer accessories, what makes this approach so appealing is the way it loosens up the rigid feel of neatly arranged objects.
Choose personal items that suit the style of your photo, such as hand cream you’ve just used with natural signs of wear, or wired earphones left deliberately unput away. These details better convey an unstudied sense of everyday taste. This photography method doesn’t require complicated professional equipment. Before heading out today, open your photo library and choose a photo you’re most happy with, pull out the sunglasses and accessories in your bag, set up a straight-down camera angle, and capture a uniquely memorable shot of your everyday gadgets.
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