tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post6660432765648971714..comments2023-06-05T09:22:52.912+01:00Comments on Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Open: Picture this (don't. I'll kick off)Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Openhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09246896544080806179noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-31730549598065488472012-10-03T23:09:57.872+01:002012-10-03T23:09:57.872+01:00Punctuation - you're right, it does seem to be...Punctuation - you're right, it does seem to be a girl thing. If a bloke was to post endless photos of themselves no doubt they would be publicly admonished for it. Not so with the ladies...more pressure, perhaps?<br /><br />Agent - ah, yes - the tactical blur. I know that one. Also, the tactical "put it n black and white mode, yeah?"<br /><br />James - I think it'll be quite nice to look back at real photos when we're all old and grey. History, init?<br /><br />Amelia - Ha, no judgement here, props for the honesty! I too have my own bank of black and white photos, I just can't bring myself to share them as they look so markedly different to "me". Wish I could in a way.<br /><br />Stephane - the idea of selling an image of yourself is so true; everyone has to be seen as having so much fun, all the time, and looking nothing short of hot in the meantime. I miss film.<br /><br />Unbearable - I love that quote. I'm glad you think it's vain. It's all I want to shout whenever someone posts a stream of selfs portraits. Alas, I want to keep my friends.<br /><br />Gorilla - and therein lies the appeal of living in captivity, surely; some zoo inclosures ban photography altogether. I wish the same rules applied to clubs and bars ;)<br /><br />Ellie - excellent company. I favour photos where you can only see half my face. Hair is a lifesaver. <br />Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Openhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246896544080806179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-18068577897465528382012-10-02T22:40:58.355+01:002012-10-02T22:40:58.355+01:00You are more honest than most would be ... worryin...You are more honest than most would be ... worrying that the others in the foto will look better ... it is only too human. I'm in your camp girl; I wish I was all free and cool in front of the camera and at ease with showing off my 'good pics' (there aren't many). Good company to be in, I suppose!Elliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09130776138284979286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-60393177767074262752012-10-02T17:05:53.540+01:002012-10-02T17:05:53.540+01:00I emphasize with you entirely - it's incredibl...I emphasize with you entirely - it's incredibly bad manners to take someone's picture without their prior consent. I've debagged several wildlife photographers for attempting to do that.Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-10382036997525129712012-09-27T12:16:55.233+01:002012-09-27T12:16:55.233+01:00It's more than just "a bit" vain. Th...It's more than just "a bit" vain. Things are different now. Octogenarian actress Betty White hosted Saturday Night Live last year. Her best joke was a slam at Facebook. "When I was young, looking through someone's vacation photos was a form of punishment."The Unbearable Banishmenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704208968630911021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-25779202342088409762012-09-27T11:40:53.022+01:002012-09-27T11:40:53.022+01:00Being the son a photographer, I never had an avers...Being the son a photographer, I never had an aversion to having my picture taken.<br /><br />However with social media you feel as though you're trying to sell an image of how your life, and we're always looking for that profile picture or obscure art to convince us and others that we're creative.<br /><br />I for one miss the smell of a darkroom, or the trip to 'snappy snaps' to pick up film prints - hoping that the 26 shots from my instant camera actually came out.<br /><br />Stephanenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-5094310106768777152012-09-27T10:15:24.774+01:002012-09-27T10:15:24.774+01:00Must admit I'm a shameless insta-whore. Mostly...Must admit I'm a shameless insta-whore. Mostly because I don't think I've ever had a decent photo taken by someone else of me in my life. I too inevitably know before the damn thing has flashed that I will look lumpen faced, thick-necked and pulling some stupid expression. I can't help it. It's my photo face and I *hate* it. <br /><br />Hence I have taken some half decent shots of myself to sort of counterbalance the fugly. <br /><br />This made me laugh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates photos. Although - sorry commenters on here - I am probably one of the shameless posers of which you speak. *hangs head* guilty. as. charged.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-83468215231423764782012-09-26T17:10:49.350+01:002012-09-26T17:10:49.350+01:00Candid photos are always the best. I skip over pre...Candid photos are always the best. I skip over pretty all of those in which someone is purposely posing, especially if in front of some sort of 'look where I am / what I'm doing' set.<br /><br />And if you are intent of taking personal 'memory' photos then I say keep them for your own personal viewing not inflict them on others.Jameshttp://www.twitter.com/JamesTypesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-5234370402380510262012-09-26T16:39:29.126+01:002012-09-26T16:39:29.126+01:00I don't like my photo taken.. they always seem...I don't like my photo taken.. they always seem to find a bad angle or wait until I've got a weird expression or something. About one photo in a hundred looks ok, and that tends to wind up as my default photo everywhere until the next one comes along.<br /><br />Still, I used to work with somebody who had had to convince her mother that there really were such things as "unflattering mirrors". So I guess it could be worse.<br /><br />The idea of a service to allow you to take photos of yourself and then edit them before you share them is an unpleasant one to me. As if airbrushed models don't cause enough body image problems, now they're trying to make it the norm that ALL photos get 'shopped before being seen?<br /><br />Having said that, here's a tip: Moving your face just as the photo is about to be taken, even with today's cameras, will usually result in it being safely blurred out.Agenthttp://ingeniousplan.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30034378.post-4598086970012064742012-09-26T15:57:33.506+01:002012-09-26T15:57:33.506+01:00It's funny, (or not, maybe), but this camera o...It's funny, (or not, maybe), but this camera obscurity seems very common for girls although the tendency is always to go to one extreme or the other: mugs up and shoves their face in every possible photograph - or ducks like a vampire's shadow when a photo-op looms. <br /><br />My sister only ever concedes to photos when she's horribly drunk - which, of course means there are mostly only photos of her glassy-eyed and slightly disheveled (which is not her normal look, honest).<br /><br />I'm ambivalent when it comes to photos of myself - I am an inveterate narcissist but also a lazy one - but, curiously, there are very very few pictures of me as a little boy. My parents clearly thought I was an ugly child.<br /><br />Nowadays I have a slightly different problem in that my picture and name turns up in odd places, often with microphone and/or script in hand, generally at a poetry or art thing, almost always looking slightly ranting psychotic and nearly every time without me realizing my picture was being taken (denying me the ability to sweetly sparkle). At the bigger events there can be multiple angles and instgramographers with the corresponding increased likelihood that they will immortalize me unflatteringly and in a way which is incongruous to my better-than-reality mental self-image.<br /><br />Then they tag it on Facebook and share it on Twitter..all helpfully tagging me.<br /><br />Thank the lord an ugly baby boy means an attractive adult man or there'd be hell to pay... ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com