Quick Tip - 7 Ps - The Playful Steps to Post-able/Printable Photos

Since people consistently ask me about photos and how to look good in them, with the summer nearly upon us, here's a revisit (with revisions) to the ways to enjoy picture taking if you are the subject of the shot:

1.  Pick - Get on your best side, or in the middle
(please just resist announcing that you "have to be on your best side", rather move to that side and let others fall in) 

2.  Plant back foot - back foot gets nearly all your weight

3.  Point front foot - with a straight leg - front foot points out, no bend at knee and little weight on it (not sure who started the knee out look, as most of us were taught that, and yet it often shortens us and/or adds the look of weight to us in photos) 

4.  Place hand - on hip or out to side (rumored to be called "Doing the Lundberg" around Tampa Bay in some circles) if on the end, or place hands/arms at low waist/below someone else' arms, if in the middle, if you are similar height or shorter than those next to you) 

5.  Position shoulder - roll it back to get rid of the press of flesh at armpit

6.  Peer out - jet head forward without moving your shoulders, dip chin, and look up to just above the camera

Pearly White - push tongue to the roof of your mouth, and flash a smile - having fun IS Powerful!