On the other side of the lens today!
On the other side of the lens today!
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KB_S1

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5,967 posts

260 months

Wednesday 21st November 2007
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Today I had the misfortune to be on the receiving end of a camera.
We needed to do some photos for our business website.

It was horrible.

The photographer was great, she is a friend of the studio owner, and was very gentle, reassuring and professional. It was however one of the least enjoyable things I have ever done at my work.

Has anyone else here had to be a subject for a change and found it uncomfortable?

Famous Graham

26,553 posts

256 months

Thursday 22nd November 2007
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Yep, always.

Not that I'm always a subject, but that I always feel uncomfortable when photographed.

It's one of the reasons I joined the Flickr 365 project - taking a self portrait every day for a year. As it happens, I only managed 100 days or so, but it made me a lot more relaxed in front of the lens. Probably to the general public's detriment wink

dumbfunk

1,727 posts

315 months

Thursday 22nd November 2007
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I'm on Day 326 today ... the finish line is in sight!
What I learned is that with practice you soon work out what angles an d expressions make you look less ridiculous than others.

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