Where is your house solarguy, would love to take lots of photos of you in all your favourite swimsuits?
Compact and phone cameras have wide angle lenses, they exaggerate differences in distances from the lens to subjects. If the camera is at knee height then the subjects shoulders will appear further away than his knees. This produces a distortion in the finished picture.
Using a telephoto lens can overcome this illusion as telephoto lenses flatten distances between objects, but the zoom on a compact or phone camera is not usually enough, better to raise the camera to just above waist height.
Model agencies employ twinks, athletes and beefcake, most of us are neither being merely human. Don't try to take photos to sell your speedos nor try to create soft porn, but try to get photographs of yourself living in and enjoying your swimwear.
Don't give up, keep taking photographs and improving technique.
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