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And yes, I agree: photos of you don't do you justice. Silly cameras. So kind to some of us *coughcoughAmal&Clairecough*. So mean and bitchy to the rest.
You are, in fact, gorgeous and not even a little zombie-potato-ish.
As a photographer, I can state that this is pretty much true for everyone. I take DOZENS, if not HUNDREDS of photos before I get the one that's PERFECT (or at least, that I can work with). It was one of the first lessons I learned when I started doing this.
(ETA:) Even with my favorite model, Mae (who's in the icon I used for this post), I probably have HUNDREDS of photos I can never use for each one I've created something with. And she's probably the single MOST photogenic person I know!
You're intrinsically beautiful, and it shows more often than not. :-)
Edited at 2010-06-04 12:05 pm (UTC)
I think a lot of people who take snapshots get caught up in the moment, and in their feelings about the subject, and can't see that the picture they are taking is aweful. Then they can't understand why the subject hates the photo. I am often interested in making pictures of people who feel they photograph badly, because I want to get past that unflattering snapshot, and make a real image that does capture the person. I've gotten a few of them. But it can't be done by sneaking the shot, or trying to rush it at a busy event. Can't take the crappy snapshot and call it a beautifulimage just because you want it to be.
Bad photos are entirely the person behind the camera, not the person in front of it. It's a shame that neither of them usually gets that.
Edited at 2010-06-04 02:44 pm (UTC)
1. I too HATE having my photo taken by most people.
2. I too photograph poorly 95% of the time.
3. She didn't have my permission to take my photograph
4. OMG! She's trying to tell me what a photo of my makes others think of me.
5. She took photos of me without my consent. Not cool!!!
It totally set off alarm bells (yes, I know what you mean about not wanting to say trigger- but just yeah, I have baggage around photographs from years ago) beyond being offensive.
People do not get that it is a sensitive topic.
I don't think of myself as ugly but would say I have a similar ratio of good to awful pictures of me. Even posed pictures don't look good usually because I have an awkward forced smile. No one ever taught me how to smile naturally on command.
When I take pictures of people, I don't ask them to smile, for exactly the reason you give. Most people are not actors,and can't fake an expression convincingly. I tell the people I photograph that we are having a conversation, and they should react to that conversation. When we hit a moment in that conversation that catches my eye, the strobes will go off. All I ask is that they ignore the big chunk of glass and technology in front of my right eye.
I have seen one photographer who gets around the terrible posed smile with a simple trick. He puts a mirror behind himself, where the subject can see themself. It's easier to make a good pose when you can see yourself.
What is this?
Photographs flip it around to what everyone else sees, but reversing an image makes it very different. Your eye goes to different things, and because it's not what you're used to (but what everyone else is used to) they may like it while you don't because it's not the mirror image you have in your head.
ETA: I am not saying this is the case with you, or even that it's the only reason people don't like photographs of themselves. I just thought it was interesting.
Indeed, I think I'm pretty damn photogenic, but in every opera I've been the photographers have thought it was a good idea to photograph me in the middle of singing. NO ONE is attractive in the middle of singing opera. You make some really bizarre faces when you're trying to produce enough sound and enunciate enough to carry over the orchestra and out into the house. You're emoting with your sound at that moment, not your face, and you can't photograph a sound. It looks bizarre and hideous. I dearly wish opera photographers would get this.
Edited at 2010-06-04 05:11 pm (UTC)
I loved singing, especially under Dr. T's instruction. What I did not love was the yearbook photo of me taken while singing in Polish. Singing in English or Italian creates odd enough facial expressions, but Polish has an entirely different set of sounds. It was enough of a shock to shatter my fragile, sixteen-year-old esteem that I nearly withdrew from performing entirely.
And yeah, people take pictures of me at readings, mouth wide open...
I honestly think that I was a cute kid. Cute in the chipmunk, girl-next-door, fun-loving way. As an adult, maybe my unease shows through or all the years of being told not to smile so widely have taken their toll. OR maybe it's the cameraperson's fault. Either way, it's difficult to find a flattering picture of me these days.
What's the idea?
(Also, the gunmetal grey one I was making at Wiscon *is* up for auction for Blogathon. :) )
I think I can get it to work, but not really sure.
You'd want thicker yarn, though. Attaching stuff to this yarn would pull and distend the shawl. I'd say at least worsted weight, but I'd want to consult my knitting gurus first.
Also it might be easier to do as fringe on a scarf; that way the objects wouldn't attach to the lace pattern itself...
It was great meeting you, and I'm already looking forward to next year!