Walking hack for perfect candid photos takes over TikTok – here’s how the trend works

Ever looked back at a ‘candid’ photo snapped by a friend and immediately deleted?

Perhaps your hair has flown across your face, or your smile isn’t quite how you’d like.

Well, there’s a method currently making the rounds on social media to master the candid photo so it looks natural but actually Instagramworthy.

Watch the video above. 

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Just one warning before we share what it is: trust the process.

Now, sure, it’s a little silly. And when we say candid, there’s actually some work to it.

But for a few seconds of looking a bit goofy to onlookers, the results might be worth it.

Rather than just standing still or walking and fake laughing next to your friends, people on TikTok have claimed galloping is the secret to capturing the “perfect” candid snap.

“Apparently if you walk like this you get the perfect candid photos,” one TikToker captioned a video of them trying out the trend.

To get the final photo, just take a video and then screenshot the footage.

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Now, we’ll let you be the judge of the results, but low and behold it does kind of work…

“This is the umpteenth video I’ve seen with this. I’m sold. It works. No notes,” one person remarked in the comments.

“As mental as you feel doing this it really works!” someone else said.

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Another person who tried out the trend on TikTok claimed it was “the only way i’ll take candid laughing pics from now on”.

Lots of people have jumped on the trend – some videos less serious than others. 

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One video from the trend has garnered 2.3 million likes and thousands of comments in just a matter of days, with people dubbing the method “hilarious”.

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”No way these are perfect and you actually look like you’re having fun,” someone wrote in the comments section while others debated if it’s technically considered ‘candid’.

Another pointed out the “method is great [because] the silliness of doing it turns into real genuine laughter.”

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