William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pat White" > Subject: Re: OT: Question For You "Professional" photogs out there > > > I always weed out the pictures that are technically imperfect, or that > . I think most people don't want to see bad pictures of themselves. > > William Robb
I'd say "unflattering" instead of "bad" I was really devastated by a photo of me taken by a serious photographer who not only didn't show me the photo before he showed it to others(!) but sent me the link to a file that filled up my screen with every wrinkle and line accentuated to the hilt with hard light. I looked like that picture of cracked earth that Versal Cross showed us a while ago. I mean, I knew he was taking the shot, but he only sent one and it brought me to tears. I gave him hell for it. He also took it when I was still shaken from being in a slight auto accident. We have made up, but it drove home to me, usually behind the camera, how careful one must be. I'm a generally cheerful optimistic person and he captured me not only with accentuated lines and wrinkles, but looking extremely unhappy. Just not fair. It still gives me nightmares. I was, effectively, posing for that picture -- it wasn't a news coverage shot at an event I happened to be in/at. And he thought it was damn wonderful. Ouch. OTOH - I never scream at my non photog friends for their poorly exposed fuzzy little snap shots where my head is just above the bottom of the frame. That is to say, one that is a "bad" picture. For one thing, a zillion people are not going to see it and for another, those pictures are instant wrinkle removers :) LIkewise, I'm fair game at Scrabble Tourneys, and really look pretty awful in some of the photos that have been published because of my working or playing there, but it is different. They are candids. I have no control. annsan
