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Do You Hate Having Your Photograph Taken?
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Why?
Why does having your photograph taken make you feel like that -what do you think it is that makes you like that?
I'm really intrigued especially as I find that people who dont want their photograph taken are often amazing characters.
(Some amazing people are missing off photos and I think its sad) I accept sometimes cameras are intrusive and they are a kind of gun!
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Why does having your photograph taken make you feel like that -what do you think it is that makes you like that?
I'm really intrigued especially as I find that people who dont want their photograph taken are often amazing characters.
(Some amazing people are missing off photos and I think its sad) I accept sometimes cameras are intrusive and they are a kind of gun!
Would love to hear your thoughts.
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I'm not very keen to have my photo taken at all, as the resultant photos make me look old and fat and none too pretty. I had no choice recently though as I needed one for my new Bus Pass. I now look like one the Great Train Robbers and I am frightened to go out lest I feel the long arm of the law on my shoulder !
I don't mind having my photo taken, but I don't like to see what I look like most of the time :-)
and me too, ratter, my spoken voice seems still to have a dreadful Surrey dipthong, despite living all over the country. I hate my voicemail messages, they sound dreary and as if I've got loose false teeth.
and me too, ratter, my spoken voice seems still to have a dreadful Surrey dipthong, despite living all over the country. I hate my voicemail messages, they sound dreary and as if I've got loose false teeth.
Most people don't like having their photos taken as most people take bad photos.
Photography is an art form and is a technical as well as artistic subject. Most people (after I have taken a photo in our studio) seem surprised that they look good. That is because a professional photographer will know how to pose someone well, elicit smiles and adjust the lighting to suit people.
Photography is an art form and is a technical as well as artistic subject. Most people (after I have taken a photo in our studio) seem surprised that they look good. That is because a professional photographer will know how to pose someone well, elicit smiles and adjust the lighting to suit people.
I find it a sign of paranoia, and the videos of my late family bring them back to life every time I watch them. People sometimes have a go at me for taking photos of their houses as well, as if when someone takes them they suddenly become visible to others as well. I'd say it's a psychological problem myself and I am qualified to say so.
The reason why most people don't like having their photo taken is because they don't like to see themselves in photos.
If you look in a mirror, it is simple and subconcious action to zero in on the part of your face that you dislike the least, and ignore the remainder.
In a photograph, that is not possible, and the image that you see is rarely the image you like to have of yourself - ergo, a dislike of photos leads to a dislike of them being taken.
For some reason, I am missing the 'zero in' reflex, and can be genuinely startled by my own reflection, and see myself exactly as other see me, which of course I am not especially happy about.
As long as there are ladies who see men for what they are, and not what they look like, (God bless the present Mrs Hughes!) men like me will get by, but I yearn on a daily basis to be a handsome man.
If you look in a mirror, it is simple and subconcious action to zero in on the part of your face that you dislike the least, and ignore the remainder.
In a photograph, that is not possible, and the image that you see is rarely the image you like to have of yourself - ergo, a dislike of photos leads to a dislike of them being taken.
For some reason, I am missing the 'zero in' reflex, and can be genuinely startled by my own reflection, and see myself exactly as other see me, which of course I am not especially happy about.
As long as there are ladies who see men for what they are, and not what they look like, (God bless the present Mrs Hughes!) men like me will get by, but I yearn on a daily basis to be a handsome man.
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