INTJs and photographs [Archive]

Kfbr

12-09-2007, 09:38 PM

When you get your picture taken, would you rather smile or just be you?

Well with me, when it comes to photographs, I don't really like to smile. It's not that I'm a fun Nazi, I'd just rather the moment be taken with my normal face, and not my "haha look at my shitty forced smile" face.

I was looking down the list of famous INTJ's, and after googling most their pictures, many of them are calm and reserved, not really smiling. Is this an INTJ thing?

I'll throw in an example of myself. I prefer my pictures to come out looking like this then the smiling ones.

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TruorTupnm

12-09-2007, 11:15 PM

It is a thing for this particular I. N. T. J. person, but I am unaware of the exact number with similar practices. I'll usually look directly at the camera and raise an eyebrow along the lines of, "What is the point of this picture?" Or I shall merely employ a straight face. Rarely, when I am around at least halfway cool people that I wish to entertain, or if I am tired of lots of pictures, I beam widely with tongue tip out and eyes closed, though.

mielikki

12-10-2007, 12:13 AM

If someone actually manages to get me to submit to a photograph - I don't smile.
They may get me to bare my teeth, but I would hardly call it a smile.

Sevs

12-10-2007, 05:13 AM

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Todos

12-10-2007, 05:44 AM

Yeah I have to really work to force a smile for a picture. Some of the pictures I've seen where I'm among a group look a bit scary since everyone's smiling but me. I prefer to look at the camera as if it's a hot woman who has been flirting with me all night, which is not smiling but is not a plain look either..

rwyatt365

12-10-2007, 08:41 AM

logan235711

12-10-2007, 08:57 AM

sometimes I wonder if I should smile, since most people consider a smile optimistic and happy (all the connotations of happy), so that when they see my picture it will be a 'good' influence on them rather than a frowny, pounty, negative one |:( but then i ask myself if anyone would have my picture, take my picture, and ever see my picture. i can rest pretty assuredly that only those who know me anyways would :p

*logan is a proud member of the self-proclaimed picture avoiders anonymous*

ushop

12-10-2007, 09:31 AM

My picture smiles are slightly awkward, but I have trouble keeping a straight face in most other situations. One teacher back in high school said she liked having me up front because of my facial expressions. o_O

HarleyQuinn

12-10-2007, 09:38 AM

I usually smile but it's more because it's an automatic reflex rather than a natural act. Sometimes I'll give a non-smile if it's somebody who's annoying me by requesting a picture (or I'll give one of those "smug, snobby" kind of smiles that popular people in TV give to the losers).

logan235711

12-10-2007, 10:14 AM

(or I'll give one of those "smug, snobby" kind of smiles that popular people in TV give to the losers).
oh I like that! I'll have to try that the next few times : )

mind_wander

12-10-2007, 04:11 PM

It seems, everyone is commenting about, should I smile or not. I have people asked me this too, I really don't know why. Its always the serious look, "If you don't do it or I show this serious face." In reality, inside I am smiling, but why can't I show my self-expression.

WavesSootheMe

12-10-2007, 06:43 PM

If I'm not hiding from a photo, I smile. I actually hurt myself trying to hide from a photo last week :(. I don't know why. It's like a reflex to me.

INTJoe

12-10-2007, 07:04 PM

I almost always smile. But I think it's because I like my smile, and it makes me look better.

But I've noticed in pictures where i have grown out goatee or beard, it looks better when I don't smile. I've got two pictures of my gf and I from our last cruise and we got formal pics taken on two separate nights. In the first pics I had a full beard and did not smile. Then the next night I decided to shave completely and so our second set of pics I'm clean shaven, and smiling.

She thought it was weird that I wasn't smiling in one but was in the other and I told her my reasoning. lol.

bubbles

12-10-2007, 10:06 PM

I usually don't smile, but when I do smile, I either blink or look somewhere else. It's hard for me to smile (or even stare at a camera lens), it's just not natural for me.

s3ker

12-11-2007, 11:53 AM

I dont like to show up in pictures, I just hate it , and if I have to I dont smile because there is no reason to do it.

danalaina

12-12-2007, 04:38 PM

what is this picture taking of which you speak? =)

i'm far too private to let that happen much. when i do allow it, though, it's a spontaneous thing. i dislike poses, regardless of tone.

Kfbr

12-12-2007, 05:01 PM

I'm in student government and, unfortunately, with tons of ESF's that have to have their damn picture taken every five minutes.

Luckily an NT slipped in and is fixing it :]

Drayakir

12-12-2007, 06:07 PM

I can't do a fake smile. I either do smile actually, if something is pleasing me, or I just stare at the camera, unnerving people, and telling them to die in a ditch if they want me to smile.

Tsuru

12-12-2007, 06:12 PM

I *HATE* having my picture taken and generally refuse to do so unless necessary. I don't smile in pictures mostly because I can't do an unnatural/fake smile without looking just plain weird or creepy. I find a slight smirk works well though. :3

Ribcakes

12-13-2007, 01:56 AM

i tend not to smile and, depending on who is at the camera, stare down the camera.
if the situation is appropriate for a smile, i will have one, but that rarely happens...

apathy ftw...

Caramel

12-13-2007, 05:15 AM

nightfire

12-13-2007, 11:57 AM

Considering somebody actually manages to take a photo of me (or convince me to pose for it), I usually don't smile at all or just make a small smile. Anything more makes me look quite weird in the photos, at least from my perspective. On the other hand, 'being serious' instantly adds like 5 years to my age in the photo. Or it is just me being not photogenic...

Ederico

12-13-2007, 02:43 PM

My best photos are those taken while looking serious, anything else is forced and ends up looking lifeless to me. Even as a kid, I preferred being serious or aggressive. :D

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LSB

12-13-2007, 02:46 PM

I hate having my picture taken, I end up blinking and flinching so I look like I'm half-asleep or stoned. I never manage to look like me in any pictures, so I'd rather not have it taken at all. I've given up on attempting to appear as I really do in pictures, and I avoid having it taken whenever possible.

Danisty

12-13-2007, 02:50 PM

I hate smiling on command and that goes for pictures too. It's just way too fake for me and if you look at the pictures, it's really obvious.

Myrak

12-14-2007, 09:44 AM

I really dislike smiling in general unless I'm actually feeling outwardly-happy or am laughing my ass off at something. If I'm going about my routinely business, I usually have little reason to smile ("Another monotonous day? Yay....")

I also dislike posing for photos. If the photo is with a group of people I value I'll try to force a smile for their sake, but I much prefer a serious face with a raised eyebrow and the majority of the time that's what I do. I, like others here, am also not very photogenic (my school pictures are ALWAYS horrible).

Sevs

12-15-2007, 12:50 AM

I generally don't smile as I go about my daily activities so I think it's absurd for anyone to insist that I smile for a picture. To me, that would not be an accurate representation of how I am.

If I smile, why not just put a clown-hat on me as well? :clown:

Amen^^

You can not imagine to how many discussions this has led between me an dmy parent swhen it was time for "happy familiy - chrismas picture".....

Also every time someone takes a picture at a family function i hear "Come on smile".

dbjs

12-15-2007, 05:33 AM

I don't smile much, and really dislike having my picture taken. I do however LOVE to take photos of other people, and I especially love taking pictures of dogs.

Booko

12-15-2007, 06:14 AM

I don't smile, but I've always supposed that has more to do with my mum when I was getting pictures when I was young.

No matter what I did I had a "fake smile" and it never pleased her. So in retaliation I just looked as sober as possible. And I avoid cameras.

Since that's true for as far back as I can remember, I honestly can't say what I'd really like to do.

When no cameras are present, I don't generally smile (unless someone was being witty). Over the years I've trained myself to smile when expected just to not hear a bunch of crap about how I'm not smiling.

SuperTrouper

12-19-2007, 02:43 PM

I prefer to smile only when I'm actually happy.. and my smile grows or deminishes with the intensity of my happiness/giddiness. Generally it's only slight, cuz I'm usually happy and content, but not flying off the walls happy. I'm really only posting to get my quota met so I can see posted pictures and links.

quentin

12-20-2007, 12:14 AM

WavesSootheMe

12-20-2007, 06:30 PM

I've detested every single photograph that's ever been taken of me. I look so much better in the mirror. I don't have any problem with my looks in real life. There's something about cameras that makes me look ugly.

I think I have similar sentiments. When it comes to humans, still-frame can be horribly unforgiving.

aude

12-23-2007, 09:32 AM

I hate photos.. i can count how many i have on my fingers and toes. And every picture i have taken i always look like i am really pissed off. Very very rare you will see me smile in a photo.

I have that same issue i think i look better in a mirror then in a picture :stunned:

Mimirnm

12-24-2007, 01:28 PM

Recently I bought a digital camera and have played with photography, part of that is selfportraits - often I try to take pictures of my neice on my shoulders. A friend of mine pointed out that in all of my flickr pics of this type, I look "serious" or "angry" and it takes away from the shot.

I had never really thought about it, but now I pay attention when I take a self-portrait and I do have to concentrate on my expression and not worry about the framing of the shot - difficult when handheld and pointed at yourself.

Moreover, recalling my childhood, I have never liked being photographed and I rarely smile, this fact is pointed out frequently by my family.

I think a lot of the expression is in the eyes anyway, so fake smiles just don't work for me, if I am in a good mood - the only time I take pictures - then it will show.

aelan

12-24-2007, 08:31 PM

When I smile in pictures I always think it looks awkward and forced, so I rarely do it. I often end up looking sad, emo, pissed off, or neutral, or so I've been told...

PhoenixRising

01-04-2008, 08:33 PM

In general I tend to avoid getting my picture taken (perhaps that's part of why I love to take pictures.. as then I get to stay out of them). As far as smiling or not? I generally don't have a preference, although I have to admit I think they generally turn out better when I have either a straight face or perhaps just a small grin.

Antares

01-05-2008, 06:46 AM

I smile... But somehow it looks strained and fake. I can only take a happy photograph if I were caught unawares by my photographer. Then people can catch me smiling or laughing. Somehow, it looks more real if I exaggerate my expressions, which makes me look completely stupid. I used to frown at cameras until I realized that it always turns out gloomy :laugh:

Sometimes, I give the camera an empty, emotionless expression and sometimes I try to burn a hole through it with the intensity of my eyes (which never works, not even figuratively). I know. Irrational of me to make faces to an inanimate object that would take horrible pictures of me.

King K

01-05-2008, 08:32 AM

I hate pictures, and I tend to avoid smiling on them (actually I don't smile unless my "inner voices" say something funny), when I need to take a picture of myself I usually Photoshop it.

Pinkie

01-05-2008, 08:48 AM

I look like a gargoyle in photos, although I don't really understand why because I'm not that hideous in real life and look fine on film. Therefore, I prefer to take the picture, rather than be in it.

Nameless

01-06-2008, 02:25 AM

I will "do" any expression that makes me look good, smiling or not. But I actually don't like pictures being taken of me. I always look incredibly nervous and ready to crack, even if I'm not. When I take self-portraits, it's so much easier and fun though. I usually start off with neutral expressions then run the entire gamut, including smiling. I find it surprisingly easy to just hold a camera in front of me and always get the best angle, even with my DSLR.

Antares

01-06-2008, 03:03 AM

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This is my Facebook profile picture... I don't know what I was doing or thinking. Heck, I can't even tell my expression.

Snowdragon

06-01-2008, 04:45 PM

I HATE being asked/coerced/forced to smile in photographs, just an NT thing about me. Being made to smile looks so...forced; I hate fake smiles (and pretty damn good at spotting them.)

mkay

06-01-2008, 05:07 PM

My INTJ husband smiles really awkwardly when asked to smile. You have to catch him smiling naturally to increase your odds of a good photo. But neither of us is into photographing each other, so shrug. When we bother to bring a camera anywhere, we usually take scenic shots. Sometimes we take shots where we're just being goofy, so it doesn't matter that we look like goofs.

Bioplasmoid

06-01-2008, 07:06 PM

If I'm not hiding from a photo, I smile. I actually hurt myself trying to hide from a photo last week :(. I don't know why. It's like a reflex to me.

I share your reflex also. Cant stand it when strangers take a pic near me, and I will nearly always turn around or walk away. As for smiling its best to use video not stills to get an embarrassed smile from me, then grab the right frame. I smile more reading this forum on a daily basis, than in almost any other activity. :blank:

Starfrost

06-02-2008, 09:39 PM

I hate being forced to smile(They want us to do that at work, but I never do.) I always hated getting my photo taken, I never thought about why before, but it probably has to do with being forced to smile.

Sure, I have pictures with me smiling and acting goofy, but that's because I felt that way at the moment. I don't force feelings.

amirfikrie

06-02-2008, 10:24 PM

people sometimes even go as far as ridiculing me for not smiling in pictures, accusing me of being 'emotionless'.

Bioplasmoid

06-02-2008, 10:34 PM

people sometimes even go as far as ridiculing me for not smiling in pictures, accusing me of being 'emotionless'.

Hang on you are INTJ, you MUST be emotionless. :p
*slaps himself*

phantasma

06-03-2008, 06:31 AM

I prefer serious photos of me. Though people tell me I'm pretty when I smile, smiling for photos makes me feel silly unless I'm genuinely happy.

azelismia

06-03-2008, 10:55 AM

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Dominguez

06-06-2008, 06:12 AM

I hate pictures. Not because of a picture in itself, but because of the person/persons (its usually a group of girls) behind the camera going 'smiiiiiiileeeeeeeeeee'. Ok, why? Give me a reason and I'll smile. And what is the purpose of this picture anyway? Looking foolish on some internet website (hyves, partyflocks, myspace), pretending to be 'bffs'? No thanks. :)
qft. i don't entertain the whole idea of having x8908409 pictures on a social page. if anything there's a selection of pictures that i've chosen to give you brief insight into what tickles my fancies and then just one picture of me with a straight face. I don't take pictures often anyway, it sorta has to have a purpose.

Metaphor

06-06-2008, 07:15 AM

If I'm faking a smile in a photo, its usually pretty obvious.
As for being in photos... I'm usually the one taking the picture, as photography is a hobby of mine. However, when I am in the actual photo, I've gotten into the habit, recently, of not smiling.

Mandrake

06-06-2008, 09:18 AM

I usually just give a smirk in picture situations. I am surprised however to see how my smile is pretty good when I am laughing. I don't like taking pictures when I am not in the mood for pictures. If my smile its not a smirk, that means I felt comfortable taking the picture which is a rare thing for me.

Nightelf

06-06-2008, 11:40 AM

I try to avoid having my photo taken, but when it happens, I don't force myself to smile.
I am often told that I don't smile enough, though 'your smile makes your face sooo lovely'... (I just HATE to hear this) My facial expression is usually serious, severe, sometimes even a little angry.

MrEPenguin

06-08-2008, 02:32 AM

people sometimes even go as far as ridiculing me for not smiling in pictures, accusing me of being 'emotionless'.

In the future, you could say that they stole your soul with their magic camera. :idea:

quest ion

06-08-2008, 05:21 AM

Yeah I don't like smiling on command.. dislike taking spontaneous portraits as well.

SongofSeptember

06-08-2008, 06:31 AM

I almost always smile when I'm with people I'm familiar with. But the instant a camera appears, I find, with both irritation and surprise, that my expression has turned to stone. Or dried up, or whatever. I cannot smile naturally at a camera. Which probably explains why I look so ridiculously ugly in photos.

Max

06-08-2008, 03:59 PM

I don't like getting my picture taken (unless I want it taken) and I never smile unless I'm actually amused.

Rafael

06-08-2008, 07:54 PM

I can't really make up a good "fake smile" so I stick up with my natural smile, like... that.

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Oh, and I Never take a photo without some nice background.

Rei

06-08-2008, 07:59 PM

I usually smile...
Of course I don't let people take pictures of me unless I was in a good mood in the first place.

But there are the occasional "GTFO" and "raise eyebrow" photos...

major757league

06-13-2008, 10:37 PM

I usually run and hide when people try to take pictures around me. I hate having to pose an look like I'm enjoying the festivities. Its much easier to leave my face in the 'get that f%ckin camera outta my face' face. I guess it is an intj thing.

Specto nex

06-14-2008, 02:46 PM

I'm definetly an anti-smiler. Smiles are for moments when there is something to be happy about. It may come naturally if im "in" an activity the moment the picture is shot. Other then that, if someone says "ok stand over here and smile for a picture..." then fine ill stand over there. but if you want a picture of me thats what you'll get. Not a fake, SHITTY little half-circle people put on when they feel they need to act happy.

FAKE = WEAK

eclecticjoker

06-14-2008, 06:17 PM

If I had really nice teeth, I'd smile in ALL my pictures. Still, I smile in most all of them, because I smile all the time anyway, and it's silly to go "OH NO YOU CAN'T RECORD THIS, BITCH!" and not smile in a photo when I normally do anyway.

When I was very little I was a total ham and loved to take pictures, and as an adolescent I hated them. Now I've just realized that I don't photograph very well, but all in all it's more important to smile for the people taking the photo than stubbornly refuse to entertain them. Plus, every once in a while they take a really nice one. So that's gratifying. :)

ssrprotege

06-14-2008, 11:30 PM

I hate smiling on command and that goes for pictures too. It's just way too fake for me and if you look at the pictures, it's really obvious.

I was about to write something along with this line. I never smile. And I hate taking pictures anyway. Especially if someone is trying to take a picture of myself. I like group photos with my friends, but not my own individual photos.

Erika Redmark

06-14-2008, 11:45 PM

I find myself smiling a lot in general, but in pictures it always looks fake, because you have to hold it until whoever is taking the picture has fumbled around with the camera enough to figure out how to work it…and you think they're going to take the picture any minute, so you can't relax, and then it ends up taking forever.

When I was younger, I thought dreamily staring off into space would look really good in a school picture. It doesn't really, at least not when I tried it. I look kind of sad in those pictures…not in an interesting, "this is the kid who's going to go home today and find a magic talisman on the sidewalk and get transported to Narnia" way, either. Which is what I think I was going for when I was 9 or 10. XD

I was reading something (somewhere online, probably) not too long ago that I thought was really interesting: someone posed the question of whether a photo or a portrait was a more "real" representation of someone. While what you see in a photo is definitely what was there at a particular moment, the gestalt might not be perceived that way by someone who was there. Photos catch people in the middle of blinking, etc. (And whenever you're watching a movie and pause it, the people rarely look as good as you perceive them to be when you're actually watching the movie. Especially if they're talking, since that can lead to some pretty strange facial expressions.) A portrait, on the other hand, might not capture someone's face as it ever appeared at a single moment–especially if you sit for it in several sessions over several weeks or months–but it shows how another human being perceived it.

Pirate1650

06-17-2008, 01:47 PM

I also hate getting my picture taken so I've been working on getting out of it. When people try to take my picture I usually just go with it to make it short minimizing the annoyance, if they want more than one picture then I start to subtlely mess them up on purpose (older cameras were better for this, they couldn't immediately look back and feel the need to retake, they had to wait for development, ha ha). Then when people want to know why I look like I don't want my picture taken I tell them, "Nobody ever goes back and looks at pictures they just pile up until somebody wants to scrapbook and then they all sit in a pile of unviewed scrapbooks. I just use my memory and remember what I'm looking at, it is faster and I don't need to carry a camera or bother people after a vacation." It has been working pretty good as people aren't so sour about it since they can get away with the first few photographs they wanted but repeat offenders are minimal.

I was forced to go on a cruise to Bermuda with my family since they wanted to do a family thing before I go away to Basic Training. Cruises are the suck, to me anyway, I rather go camping. Anyway, they have a crew of people that only go around taking pictures. I gave them the benefit of the doubt since it is their job and I let them take their picture and go on their way. Twords the end of the cruise though they were catching everyone on the way out and forcing them to take pictures with a man in a pirate dolphin suit or something equally rediculous so I just immediately broke from the line and cut right. The assistant chased me for a few steps and said something in broken english like, "Take picture wiff dolphin". I said, "Oh, hell no" and speedwalked away.

Then the point of telling this leads to the icing on the cake. I had discreatly been ruining pictures the whole time, like looking in the wrong direction, the "why me look" or slightly puffing one cheek or something, I can also inhale through my nose as to only dimple one nostral. So then the day after we had gotten home from this "vacation", everyone else was looking over the pictures (for what I assume to be the last time) and my dad said and this time I accurately quote, "You know, you really take a wierd picture". I don't think I said anything in responce, just slightly smiled and walked away.

Well, I hope it wasn't too long for you guys, my first real post too, cool forum guys!

True Rune

06-19-2008, 12:36 AM

Only on request, it's not pretty.

Cygnus

06-19-2008, 12:49 AM

I do smile or put on a cheesy grin, but I am camera shy. If people or myself are going to be stuck with the picture of me, I might as well look happy :) Smiling comes natural to me, I find so much humor in life :)

Nexus

06-19-2008, 12:57 AM

I don't like having my picture taken. Posed pictures are annoying and candid shots make me very uncomfortable.

manger

07-04-2008, 02:17 PM

I have a knack for ruining pictures by purposely making a stupid face or gesture. I only realized how bad it was when I was trying to find a picture of myself for an application I was filling out and out of 400+ pictures of me on a certain networking website, none were appropriate. I'm working on it!

searcher

07-04-2008, 02:44 PM

I hate photos - hate them hate them.
But... if something absolutely HAS to be documented then I would prefer it to be completely candid because as soon as I know my picture is being taken I get all false smiley and yeah...

Evilinaa

07-04-2008, 03:22 PM

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This pic describes me. I found this girl pic online a while ago, and I like it so much, I need to take a pic like this with all of my labels, lol.

Neuro

07-04-2008, 04:01 PM

I don't mind having pictures taken of me but only if they are candid. Smiling for pictures is torturous because it's phony, and I try and just do a dignified stare instead if I can.

Old family photos like pre-WW2 everyone just looked normal. Perhaps because they had to hold the pose longer so a natural face was more fool proof. I much prefer looking at those though.

Linwenilid

07-04-2008, 08:43 PM

I, too, have that get-away-from-the-camera reflex, whenever someone I'm not very familiar with comes up with the request. One day I refused a guy a picture of me at work: he wanted pictures of everyone in the office, but I told him that we didn't know each other well enough to allow that kind of thing. He gave me a weird look and walked away.

In general, I don't smile in pictures, but I'm trying to change that because, not only I look serious in them, I look downright *mad*, and people are always asking what happened to me before the shot. Plus, I'm kind of vain, so I do want good pictures of myself, and so I'm practising smiles in front of a mirror. They are quite hard to fake, but practice makes perfect. ;)

burazekun

07-04-2008, 09:54 PM

Here's me normal

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Me smiling

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Me realling smiling in my mad scientist fasion.

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I beleive that many INTJ's do not see a need to smile, or if they do, it's practical enough to smile. However we do know we are intelegent and I beleive we like to show that every chance we get.

I can be a goofball at times, I find it amusing, I generally find myself happy when others around me are happy. But that may be because happy people are generally more effecient then depressed or other negative sorts... but that just the deduction I make.

JessicaHavenLea

07-05-2008, 06:37 AM

No smiling. I usually hide or make the most repulsive face I possibly can. Ruining a family photo is fun *puffs out cheeks, looks cross-eyed*

Rishki

07-05-2008, 05:14 PM

Honestly I hate taking pictures because to me they never seem to look the way they are suppose to. However I do prefer to smile just because I actually look happy when I do.

Saint

07-05-2008, 05:20 PM

Smiles ruin most photographs.

rawr

07-05-2008, 05:26 PM

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I pretty much make faces in every picture...

Seppuku Savant

07-07-2008, 04:08 AM

People think my fake smiles are real and my real smiles are fake. I try my best not to smile unless I feel like it. There's no need to fake emotion.

Mong

07-07-2008, 04:14 AM

I rarely "smile" for photos. I usually put on a really ugly fake smile just to annoy whoever is taking the photo (square shaped grin and strangely flat eyebrows)

PreyingMantis

07-08-2008, 06:48 AM

In photos, i too usually look fakey and horribly distorted when i smile for a photo. I'd rather look like myself, but even if i feel really great inside, people say i look serious or sad or something annoying - so i resort to the facial "distort". It's only exacerbated by the fact that my mother is a reasonably extroverted ISFP (like, only one letter in common with mine, and the most unimportant one for compatibility) and she always wanted me to look happy and smiley in photos as a kid - probably wanted me to look like and ESFP - and so i was just traumatized by hundreds of dreadful photos of me as a kid either putting on some eyesore brat-wanna-be-star smile, or grimacing like the worst behaved boy in the class to rebel against my mother. The baggage, eh.

faedra

07-09-2008, 06:46 AM

The thing I have against photos is that (like most social niceties) they're senselessly overdone. Sure, it'd be nice to have a few for memory's sake, but certainly not every five minutes?! No wonder that judging by my holiday pictures even as a kid, I couldn't blame you for thinking that I had a permanent annoyed scowl. But I'll try my best to smile naturally if it's a photo I see a point in, though I have an unfortunate habit of blinking at exactly the wrong time.

dandylion

07-09-2008, 07:33 AM

It depends on how I feel, but many times I fake a little smile. I usually don't have to bother with photos because I'm the photographer at most events anyway.

iMiki

07-09-2008, 07:57 AM

I smile a lot but forcing me to smile, that really annoys me. Hence, the fake smile, which really feels unnatural.

Smiles are for moments when there is something to be happy about.

I couldn't agree more. :thumbsup:

Vertigo

07-09-2008, 07:59 AM

My pictures are ok if I don't know they are being taken, but as soon as I know the camera is around I distort my face and make odd pictures hehe

kag

07-09-2008, 02:56 PM

i'd rather like to be on the "safer" part of the camera... If i'm trying to smile for a picture the result will be micro-smile even if i thought it's an enormous huge smile.

// hi btw ;x

mlanders

07-10-2008, 09:32 AM

I hate being photographed, and I hate people who want to take my picture. I figure if you're weren't there when it happened, if you didn't know me during my lifetime, then you missed out. Tough shit.

Don't you love the people who want to photograph others while they're eating? At some banquet (or family reunion that you can't get out of because your relatives remember that your gallbladder was "removed" four times already) there is always some retard taking pictures of everyone eating. Or even worse, using a video camera!!!

And I'm the asshole who tells them they are losers for doing so. At 14 years old telling this to family members. Don't you know I was popular.