Photographing Overweight Subjects

[Geary Wootten]

Yes....I will echo what Michele said and also add that I just read that in a Digital Photog mag about it last month. It worked really well for me in a couple of recent shots of family members.

Shooting from below the chin line exaggerates the jowls on overweight people who show their weight in the face.


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[Laura B. Shelley]

A model's trick for improving the under-chin line: press the tongue against the roof of the mouth. It tightens that whole under-chin area and is otherwise undetectable.

[Elizabeth Schott]

Linda... just go into plastic surgery!

The neckline has been the problem for me on both extremes. The painting I most recently posted; she has the thinnest '"chicken neck", that I teased her about. And the lady I did with the book and glasses had the roosters, we just did a tilt of the head on both.

Personally I hate to change certain things. I feel every line on a face tells just that much more about the person, but I will leave a few out to keep everyone happy.