castrol
TPF Noob!
A lot of the people I take photographs of... well, frankly, a lot of them just don't
like the look on their face, the way they look in the picture, or just flat out think
they aren't photogenic enough to have their picture taken. I get this quite a
bit and I am sure there are plenty of you out there who encounter this pretty
often. If not, then nevermind. You can just ignore the ramblings of an idiot.
However, after putting quite a bit of thought into it, I think the reason most
people don't like images of themselves is that the image they see is not what
they are used to. The only time people really get a chance to look at themselves
is in the mirror. Thus, the image they are used to seeing 99% of the time is
completely backwards from what they see in a photographic image. Not only
that, but usually when they look in the mirror, they aren't making the normal
faces that all of their friends and family are used to seeing. Do you ever
catch that glimpse of someone's personality in a photo, the one that their
friends or family say, oh yeah, that is soooooo him/her? Then the person in
that photo doesn't really like it? That is because all of their friends and familly
are used to seeing that expression ALL THE TIME. They never look in the
mirror and make that face. They are looking to make sure their smile is good,
the hair is in place and the makeup is okay.
The reason all of this came to me was a girlfriend of mine sent me a photo
that I had taken of her. It was a mirror image of what I had originally shot,
and her statement to me was...she liked it better that way. Mirrored? To me
it just looked weird. Then it all kind of hit me.
Anyway...ramblings, like I said.
*shrugs*
like the look on their face, the way they look in the picture, or just flat out think
they aren't photogenic enough to have their picture taken. I get this quite a
bit and I am sure there are plenty of you out there who encounter this pretty
often. If not, then nevermind. You can just ignore the ramblings of an idiot.
However, after putting quite a bit of thought into it, I think the reason most
people don't like images of themselves is that the image they see is not what
they are used to. The only time people really get a chance to look at themselves
is in the mirror. Thus, the image they are used to seeing 99% of the time is
completely backwards from what they see in a photographic image. Not only
that, but usually when they look in the mirror, they aren't making the normal
faces that all of their friends and family are used to seeing. Do you ever
catch that glimpse of someone's personality in a photo, the one that their
friends or family say, oh yeah, that is soooooo him/her? Then the person in
that photo doesn't really like it? That is because all of their friends and familly
are used to seeing that expression ALL THE TIME. They never look in the
mirror and make that face. They are looking to make sure their smile is good,
the hair is in place and the makeup is okay.
The reason all of this came to me was a girlfriend of mine sent me a photo
that I had taken of her. It was a mirror image of what I had originally shot,
and her statement to me was...she liked it better that way. Mirrored? To me
it just looked weird. Then it all kind of hit me.
Anyway...ramblings, like I said.
*shrugs*