You like shooting people, but do YOU like to be photographed?

<p>Bring it on, as long as it is stills. I don't like being in movies, commercials, etc.</p>

<p>Only if they want to use MY camera to take the photo eek!</p>

 

<p>I don't mind it. I'm incredibly good looking. People all the time take me for Brad Pit.</p>

<p> Would you believe they take me for Brad Pit's father?</p>

<p> How about Brad Pit's father on a bad day?</p>

It doesn't bother me. I just look at the camera with a pleasant expression and snap it is all over. Movie cams are something else though. Most people don't know when to call it quits. They aim the camera at me and I smile pleasantly. Then the seconds roll by with me smiling pleasantly while the camera keeps rolling on and on. I guess he is waiting for me to do something memorable to record. I have never done anything memorable in my life. So I just keep staring with what is now a frozen grin, strongly tempted to say, "You can stop that ------ camera now, --------. .

<p>No.</p>

<p>I've been "street photographed" a few times. I don't mind, after all being the devilishly handsome bloke I am, I'm rather accustomed to it ;-)</p>

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<p>Perhaps you could accompany me when I want to take people free photographs.</p>

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<p>It's a thought, but part of my "secret" is getting up <em>very</em> early in the morning and going out very late, both at high ISOs and with fast lenses. Also, make sure you stay over so the day trippers have left and you are still there clicking away.</p>

<p>Some of the early Daguerreotypes had empty streets because of the long exposures which blurred out most people except for the loafer leaning against the street lamp. I've always wanted to try that but have not got to it yet.</p>

<p>Mark? Could it just be the "pits," period?</p>

<p>The trouble is that when other people photograph me they make such a mess of it - they never seem to capture my uncanny resemblance to Leonardo de Caprio.</p>

<p>It seems that Chris Waller and I have the same problem. Uncanny...</p>

<p>I don't mind people taking my picture, but I, as people above have commented, intensely dislike posing. My partner seems to think, that I should be in more photos, so she does what she can to get me in front of the lens. I have very few photographs of myself from before I met her.</p>

 

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<p>The trouble is that when other people photograph me they make such a mess of it - they never seem to capture my uncanny resemblance to Leonardo de Caprio.</p>

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<p>I saw this on a forum (could even have been this one) liked it and saved it for future use:</p>

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<p>I understand the subjects' feelings very well. It's a constant frustration to me that, while I'm possessed of a quite astonishing beauty, a photographic device has yet to be developed that can record the fact.</p>

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I don't mind having my picture taken. I'm a ham. I'll mug for anyone if they're up front about their intentions.

 

 

 

I don't like it when strangers take my photo on the street unless they clear it with me first. So, I afford others the

same courtesy in most cases. If I catch someone trying to take my photo without asking first, I do everything I can to

make it difficult to get the shot.

 

 

On the other hand, if I'm doing something - let's say, playing a game at an arcade - I don't mind if they take my photo.

I feel as though they're photographing the activity rather than the person, and I just happened to be the participant who

was there at the time.

<p>I am too self conscious.</p>

<p>I don't like photog that involves people so I don't take them and don't like when I am photographed. I am into cityscapes / landscapes etc.</p>

<p>I have a trip coming up (overseas) and I need to brave when I go into a restaurant and even a casual foodcourt or hawker centre. I think other people will look at me and think ....<br>

I've 2 of my own passports so far. Before I was included in my mum's passport. Both passports I had my passport photograph taken at a studio!</p>

<p>We seem to be separating into misanthropes and narcissists! If there are no people in my pictures I miss them. I have a remote shutter release just in case there is no one about and I can be a person in the picture leaning on a street lamp, or something. I like catching myself in a reflection or shadow making a picture too. </p><div></div>

Some time ago, when I was not interested in shooting^Wphotographing people, I also did not want to be photographed. When I started pestering family with camera, I came to realize the hypocrisy. I will still opt out given an opportunity, but don't care now if somebody insists on photographing me. And, "... don't ask me to pose, smile or look a particular direction" (hi Lex J!).

<p>I don't mind it at all. Like somebody else above who is photographed playing flute or blowing glass, I get photographed fairly regularly in my activities, too. Plus while in college, I'm a model for art classes. So there are hundreds of drawings of me, floating around in student portfolios.</p>

<p>I agree with people above who are surprised anybody would want to photograph them. The same thought occurs to me, whether being photographed or drawn. But I've also seen the other models, my co-workers, because I've taken drawing classes, too. All of us are imperfect. It's part of being human.</p>

 

<p>What really scared me away from wanting my photograph taken in public by some P&S'er was viewing myself in a Walmart TV security screen at their Customer Service desk. Good god! I look like a pasty faced, waddling, crazed Dutch man-child. As opposed to the handsome cus seen below.</p>

<p>Thought of playing a neat trick on someone who protests my taking their picture where I gasp in excitement over how well their skin tone came out viewed on the LCD compared to their pasty faced, ashen corpse I see before me. And then I imagine them rushing over yelling in excitement..."Let me see! Let me see!", after which they ask me if they can buy my photo.</p>

<p>Cha-ching! I simultaneously insulted them and took their money! I can dream. Can't I?</p>

 

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<p>I hate to be photographed, especially when I don't remember being photographed. Well, at least I had my make-up on.</p><div></div>

<p>I wish I had more of my pictures taken, as long as I get to enjoy them as well.</p>

<p>Every time my friends and I go traveling or hiking, I always take many pictures of them, from the trailhead to the summit. I will only appear, sadly, on the last photo at the summit, where I would set up the camera on tripod and timer.</p>

<p>I absolutely hate/detest/abhor having my picture taken. I have one of these round Slavic faces that comes out moon-faced in 2-d imagery. Then the person taking the picture is usually some idiot who wants you to stand facing the sun on a summer's day, while they fiddle with the camera, and by the time they take the shot you're squint-eyed and grimacing, like a hyena about to chomp into the kill.</p>

<p>I actually hate being photographed..<br>

I prefer to be behind the lens</p>