Thanks, Christine. She did say "that's not my favourite of the set", but it's been praised by her friends on Facebook, so I think she's actually fairly happy with it.
In my experience hating being photographed is mainly a girl thing, statistically-speaking. But I think it's really a self-image thing; ie: regardless of sex, just how comfortable are you with your own appearance? If you are a little overweight, yet feel just fine about that, you probably don't mind being photographed. There are many shots of me floating around out there; in most of them I look like a goof, but I just really don't care. But my wife is very self-conscious about the aging process, hates wrinkles and other aging artifacts, and wants full editorial control over every photo of her. I usually just hand them over and she goes mad with Gaussian blur in Elements. ;-) (I'm trying to teach her better techniques.) But for every woman like her, there are women like my brother-in-law's sister, Teresa, who I've featured in PESOs here before. I got a solid three hour session--no breaks--shooting her one Saturday, and only wrapped it up when *I* became tired. She loves the camera (and vice-versa). But she works out all the time, has good fashion sense, and is quite obviously a very self-confident woman. Anecdotally, I think that photographers are often people who hate being photographed and become photographers as a defense mechanism. Gives us an excuse to not be in the picture. :-) On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Congrats, that's a flattering portrait, I'm sure she's very pleased! > > I hate being photographed... is that a girl thing, or do you men > loathe it as well? > > :) > -c > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> With this portrait I've finally achieved a very elusive goal: that of >> getting a shot of my partner (for some 32 years) of which we're both >> happy. >> >> http://goo.gl/skjul >> >> But I wonder: how many of you can take simply terrific shots of other >> people but are reduced to weeping wrecks attempting to capture decent >> looking images of their better halves? Or is it just me? :-) >> >> K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 36mm, f/5.6, ISO200. >> AF540FGZ in 40" convertible umbrella, slightly above, camera right. >> Triggered optically from K20D. >> PP: LR3.5, PS CS5 >> >> I must also acknowledge the assistance of Tessa, our German >> Short-Haired Pointer, who pulled goofy faces behind me which got the >> best expressions from the subject. >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
