Being photogenic and my lack of it.
Don't you just wish you were naturally photogenic? I borrowed the digital camera from uni the other day to take some photos for some friends and I swear, I had to take almost 100 pics to find one of me that was semi decent. Its like I have only one angle where I can take photos from that will make me look okay, but all the rest I tend to look..well a bit munted to say the least. Just don't ask me to give you a wide mouth smile - theres something about smiling with crooked teeth that makes you look kinda crazed. Oh well, my teeth never really has bothered me THAT much, it gives my face character - even if it is the crazed sort.
I have a friend who 'models' and she looks great in every photo, even the candid ones - makes me wanna strangle her if she wasn't so darn nice! But me, I have to brace myself just to look in the mirror most mornings. My friend from uni has a whole mirror as a wall in her bedroom and when I'm there I dont even know where to look. Theres something disconcerting about seeing myself talk and go about daily chores in full view of a mirror, which I guess proberly explains why I am so camera shy.
Everytime I take a photo is such a cringe fest for me. If I am lucky, my face just looks a bit 'strained', most times I just look like a big bloated ball (round face genes..Grr). Last year I 'won' a sitting at Exclusive Photography for professional portraits. I say 'won' because I didn't really 'win' anything. Everyone who put their name in the 'draw' wins a free sitting - its the photos which cost you an arm and a leg to pay for! Anyway I was kinda excited about it because I thought " Wow, I'll get some decent photos of me!", so they did my make up and hair and off I went into the room to get the photos done. The photoshoot went OK I think, other than my refusal to give her a wide toothy grin. Luke came to pick me up and as I got into the car he just sorta stared at me. I said to him " Do you think I look nice?" you know, since I'd just had my makeup and hair done - I thought I was looking great! He said "No, you look like a hooker!" - I looked in the rearview mirror and I had to agree, he was kinda right. My makeup was about 2 inches thick, with this black raccoon eye thing happening. My hair was a big bouffant of curls - ..Interesting. I did look a bit hookerish. In the end I didn't buy the photos even after Exclusive Photography kept hounding me to come in and 'view' my hooker pics. They wanted to charge me $200 for ONE A4 photo, and by then I had lost heaps of weight anyways so I looked way different.
Well I've got the camera for the weekend and so I am going to take a few pics to post on here (if imagestation decides to work!) including my freaky stairs (Stacy you have to see how freaky these stairs are). If youre lucky I might post my photo on here - but don't hold your breath.
I have a friend who 'models' and she looks great in every photo, even the candid ones - makes me wanna strangle her if she wasn't so darn nice! But me, I have to brace myself just to look in the mirror most mornings. My friend from uni has a whole mirror as a wall in her bedroom and when I'm there I dont even know where to look. Theres something disconcerting about seeing myself talk and go about daily chores in full view of a mirror, which I guess proberly explains why I am so camera shy.
Everytime I take a photo is such a cringe fest for me. If I am lucky, my face just looks a bit 'strained', most times I just look like a big bloated ball (round face genes..Grr). Last year I 'won' a sitting at Exclusive Photography for professional portraits. I say 'won' because I didn't really 'win' anything. Everyone who put their name in the 'draw' wins a free sitting - its the photos which cost you an arm and a leg to pay for! Anyway I was kinda excited about it because I thought " Wow, I'll get some decent photos of me!", so they did my make up and hair and off I went into the room to get the photos done. The photoshoot went OK I think, other than my refusal to give her a wide toothy grin. Luke came to pick me up and as I got into the car he just sorta stared at me. I said to him " Do you think I look nice?" you know, since I'd just had my makeup and hair done - I thought I was looking great! He said "No, you look like a hooker!" - I looked in the rearview mirror and I had to agree, he was kinda right. My makeup was about 2 inches thick, with this black raccoon eye thing happening. My hair was a big bouffant of curls - ..Interesting. I did look a bit hookerish. In the end I didn't buy the photos even after Exclusive Photography kept hounding me to come in and 'view' my hooker pics. They wanted to charge me $200 for ONE A4 photo, and by then I had lost heaps of weight anyways so I looked way different.
Well I've got the camera for the weekend and so I am going to take a few pics to post on here (if imagestation decides to work!) including my freaky stairs (Stacy you have to see how freaky these stairs are). If youre lucky I might post my photo on here - but don't hold your breath.
