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I attended the second Google Plus Centennial Park PicANiK on a lovely Sydney day where we were doing a little model portfolio shooting followed by an evening of fire twirling and light painting - I know a full day of sharing and learning and having a bit of fun.

I arrived late so only caught the end of this session with Taylor, one of our fabulous models on the day. I managed just a few images of Taylor with her fabulous smile (& having to deal with a dozen people with D-SLR's all vying for her attention at once )

Million Dollar Smile

Hi,

Nice colours and nice soft light. She may need to push her chin forward a little to stop that double chin effect.

I was watching a Scott Kelby training video (his site is really good) on close up portrait photography and the shooter had a really good idea. His issue was that photo shoots can start to look all a bit the same with a frozen smile. He has a page of different expressions and adjectives stuck to the back of one of his lights to remind him of diffferent moods to ask of his models- perplexed, quizzical, interested, disbelieving, etc etc. When he gets something he likes he works that look for a few shots before moving on. I found there are plenty of pages like this in the web. I tried this technique with my daughter last week and had a lot of fun with it.

Thanks Ian - some good tips there

Good photo with lovely colours and model.
I feel the effect referred to above is not
that pronounced, but a good trick to use with
people with a double chin is to set them at
an angle to the camera and ask them to
face the lens. The bigger the double chin;
the greatest the neck angle to tense their
muscles.