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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2017 21:24:55 GMT -5
People ask me why I look angry in pictures, even when I'm not trying to make an angry expression. They tell me I should smile. But honestly, I think smiling in pictures can look really ugly. Some people are photogenic enough to look decent when smiling, some are better off not doing so.
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Post by TOS on Nov 7, 2017 22:04:20 GMT -5
It is rare that I smile in photos. I prefer to look focused.
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Post by deathevokation on Nov 21, 2017 8:46:51 GMT -5
Smiling in pictures makes you look younger and can make the most average face look attractive, I guess it depends on the smile though... mine looks retarded so none of those things are true.
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TOS
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Post by TOS on Nov 21, 2017 9:02:42 GMT -5
Smiling in pictures makes you look younger and can make the most average face look attractive, I guess it depends on the smile though.  |
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Post by BIG DICK NIGGA on Nov 21, 2017 9:44:38 GMT -5
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TOS
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Post by TOS on Nov 21, 2017 10:21:11 GMT -5
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Post by joe-ilya on Nov 21, 2017 12:42:46 GMT -5
Instead of making a fake smile, you could think of something that will make you truly smile.
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Post by 40oz on Nov 21, 2017 13:11:15 GMT -5
I don't really understand how pictures work. My brother is a photographer as a hobby and he took awesome photos for my wedding, but the most important thing about them is that in all the photos, nobody was posing for them. To put it in the weirdest way possible, he lurked in the shadows. He didn't want people to notice he was there. It was crucial to him that he could get pictures of completely candid events that best capture the unique moments of the night. He would get pictures of people talking and you could remember the stories they were telling at that exact moment. It was perfect.
I talked to him about how he makes his pictures so awesome, and the two of us were in agreement about how it always made him cringe when aunts, uncles, and grandparents would tell everyone to gather together into the frame and say "cheese!" interrupting the evening with a moment of awkwardness for the sake of having a picture to remember it by. And when you look at the pictures, you see people with their arms around each other and their forced smiles and all you remember about it is how annoying it is to have your picture taken. It didn't feel real. It's not an accurate portrayal of the night. It doesn't look like how you imagined it.
On the other hand, people often smile in their selfies, and it usually looks really good. I don't know how the people in the picture feel about their own portrait in the photo, but people that do it tend to do it a lot, so it can't be that bad. But for me, I can't bring myself to take a selfie. The thoughts of vanity and smiling in a moment I wouldn't normally smile in just seems so phony. Yet at the same time, I'm conflicted with the fact that memories are ephemeral. Only recently I realized that, discounting ones where my wife and I are posing together, I only have like 2 pictures of myself in the last 10 years. It's kinda saddening, but I don't know what to do about it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 14:14:30 GMT -5
I fucking hate being forced into pictures. So I don't smile in them and I do my best to avoid them. This causes friction with people who want to photograph "the occasion" or whatever.
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