Even the best photo apps (opens in new tab) in the world aren't going to help a non-photographer frame a shot of you when you're in a nice place and you hand them your phone to take a snap of a once-in-a-lifetime location or vacation spot. A Korean app called SOVS (opens in new tab), however, will do exactly that.
The iOS app – whose motto is “Don’t explain it, just show it!” – means that you can give your phone to your partner, friend or stranger in the street without worrying that they're going to crop out the top of the building you want in the background.
You simply take a snapshot of your scene and then overlay the outline of a pose or position on the screen where you want to be standing. Then your personal paparazzi simply has to match your composition and put you where the outline is, et voila – the perfect picture, just how you wanted it.
More than just helping a non-photographer compose a competent shot, SOVS (which stands for "Some One Very Special") is also a great repository of poses. So if you're stuck for how to make a scene more interesting than just "person/s standing in front of a thing", you can choose all manner of groovy and goofy poses to follow.
This will undoubtedly lead to a game of photo charades as you try to explain how your subjects should contort into position, which will no doubt make this popular with friends and couples.
The app is available in two flavours. SOVS – Composition Camera (opens in new tab) is designed for posing and positioning a solo person, and costs £0.99/$0.99. SOVS2 – Pose Camera (opens in new tab) is designed to accommodate two to four subjects in the frame, and is a free download with pose packs that cost $1.09.
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