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How to Take Great Pictures (by an ANTM Survivor)

6. Find your moment.

If you have a good sense of timing, or if your photographer is conveniently shouting "Yat ... Yee ... Sam!" before he takes the photo, try looking down, then flicking your eyes up at the lens just before the shutter clicks. If you time it right, you'll look more smoldering and significantly less vacant/drunk/lobotomized. Get it wrong, and you'll look vacant/drunk/lobotomized tenfold, so proceed with caution!

I know, I know, it's going to be difficult to recall all of these instructions the next time you're on holiday, when it's 4 a.m. at some Koh Samui rave party and your best friend pulls her IXUS out of her purse. Hell, they're even hard for me to remember when I'm working and concentrating all my mental powers upon the formidable task of standing in front of a camera and not looking ugly.

It may be challenging, dear reader, but I encourage you to study this column, practice hard and remember that looking good in holiday snaps is a competitive sport. And he who is snapped with the fewest chins wins.