Writer's Block: Say cheese

[gurdymonkey]

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I'm going to answer this here as it would not be socially or politically expedient to do so on SCA-West right now where someone noted that people kept taking "goofy" pictures of him and someone else just wrote: "....perhaps I might suggest it is not the photographers? Just as I must assume this from the very few pictures of me with my mouth closed- we are as we are..."  If that's so, I may as well kill myself right now because I don't really want to go down in West Kingdom history as fat, old, ugly, blurry, mean looking, dorky.....

This is one of my favorite photos of me: 

I've disliked having my photo taken all my life. There are a handful of people who I actually trust with a camera - you know who you are didjiman , bovil , moriven , helblonde.  There are multitudes who don't know what they're doing and I don't care how much they spent on equipment. I myself am not as ruthless in culling my pictures as I should be, but I do at least discard some. If it's blurry, it goes. If it's badly lit, good bye. If I've just made a good friend look like a hag, erase. Cutest baby ever looks like demon spawn from the flash, ok, we'll see if red-eye correction works, otherwise, it's out.

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[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Forum poster sez: "....perhaps I might suggest it is not the photographers?

You sez: There are multitudes who don't know what they're doing and I don't care how much they spent on equipment.

I agree with YOU. "Perhaps I might suggest that there are also quite a few snapshotters out there who one day get themselves a "fancy" camera and then suddenly "fancy" themselves as expert portrait photographers, without any prior rudimentary study of the subject." :p