Get that double chin out of my face
Camera tricks that work like magic
There has been a lot of talk about why double chins are unsightly, but how come so many appear in photography?
Some women are too old for a new wave, too young for social media, too clumsy to fix and too tired for an effort. Some were just born into this world double-chinned and don’t know how to act any different.
For the woman who has any doubts about her appearance, just recall a few images. When a double chin appears in the finder of your camera and you look yourself in the mirror wondering where it went, you’re doing it to your selfie.
When a Brad Pitt lookalike came up short and you slouch down for a two-shot on your date, not to see the motion picture Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you’re doing it to your selfie.
When a certain article of clothing calls out from your closet, pleading to be worn, and you wear it with a double chin for the camera, you’re doing it to your selfie.
No one talks about magic anymore, it’s just something you hope is still around. And no more you’ll have to, if you don’t want. For when a double chin seeming to appear out of thin air might all of a sudden disappear into the thin air, you know you’re doing it to your selfie. All you need is the right trick. Let me see. Quoth the raven “nevermore,” newsletter feature, a spellbinding story, ah! Here we are. Double, double chin and trouble, begone!
Leave the cauldron bubble, gather up your phone now, arrive on the double. You see, magically pictorial, a recipe for success to follow step by step.
Adjust your outlook.
Take the pressure off.
Give some jive turkey merry hell.
How about a bit less tongue-in-cheek.
1. Adjust your outlook.
Many great photographers have posed a model or sitter in a studied attitude with attention to posture and ensemble. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Suppose then, rather than study and pay attention to the pose of a model or artistic figure, you decide to follow the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, streaming down social media, rosy-faced, double-chinned, known and greeted by everyone. The crux of the problem draws itself in three stations (1): a rounded shoulder line in a drooping stature; (2): a slouch couched in a sitting posture; and (3): a leisurely saunter in a moving gesture. Each of these manifestations malform the characteristic position or bearing of the body or that assumed for a photograph.
Changing the way your selfie appears, making it look unusual or irregular, essentially means altering the normal proportions or relative arrangement of the different parts of the body. Plus bad posture can lead to side effects of damage to muscles or ligaments and lens distortion that affects an illusion of shortness.
There probably is a distinction between doing exercises for good posture and being forced into makeshift postures which to me made no difference, because the posture of either initiative test; that first photograph of yours: looks so awkward, unnatural, and imperfect. Try another approach.