Have YOU Been Photographed?

[Arklatexian]

Yes, you like to take pictures, sometimes of other people, but I have noticed over the years that photographers themselves do not like to be photographed. The result? People spend their whole lives taking pictures and when they die, their families have no pictures to remember THEM by. I, by the way, am speaking from experience. I am as bad as anyone. The answer? Either set up a studio at home and get someone to TAKE YOUR PICTURE or, better yet, go to a studio and have a professional take it, just don't keep putting it off.

 

[wiltw]

Smartphones are so ubiquitous that few of us can totally avoid being the subject in a photograph any longer! You almost need to be like a vampire with mirrors in avoidance effort.

 

[Ian Grant]

Yes I've been photographed quite a few times, it's not something I enjoy. Most have been for newspapers, more recently when having exhibitions, other times for magazines who have been including my work, once for a John Hedgecoe book.

Ian

 

[removed account4]

Hey ALT
Nope, I don't have that problem, every day I take at least 300 selvies of myself making a pouty face, and upload them to my f'insta.

 

[bvy]

People spend their whole lives taking pictures and when they die, their families have no pictures to remember THEM by.

If that's the only purpose, then my family will have TONS of pictures to remember me by. None will have my face. If you just want to see my ugly mug, scroll through my wife's Facebook feed. Those stupid pictures of me will linger forever, I'm sure.

 

[slackercrurster]

Sure, by wannabe street photogs.

 

[Nokton48]

D300_06867_1280Px by Nokton48, on Flickr

D300_06876_1280Px by Nokton48, on Flickr


Shooting with Makiflex Standard in the parking lot of Columbus Camera Group. Testing four 150mm lenses, Xenar, Symmar, Xenotar, Apo Ronar.

 

[Arklatexian]

Smartphones are so ubiquitous that few of us can totally avoid being the subject in a photograph any longer! You almost need to be like a vampire with mirrors in avoidance effort.

That is true, but how many of those actually become a picture that can go into the family "shoebox"? I venture to say very few if any. In my experience, most of the Smartphone photos never make it past showing the image on the screen, the end result still being no permanent photographic print to leave for later generations. If you know anyone who is into Genealogy, ask them about the value of portraits in their research. But maybe what I am talking about has no place in today's "throw away" society. If so, we can all forget "archival" photography.......Regards!

 

[Ko.Fe.]

False assumptions in OP, sorry.

 

[Cholentpot]

Yes, and that's why I took up photography. I hate when someone fiddles around with a camera for 2 minutes while I awkwardly look around only to have them go 'Oh! someone moved the dial off of A!' and then blast away with the popup flash in full daylight.

I'd rather take the photos.

 

[MattKing]

I'm curious why you have this thread in the "Feedback and Discussion" sub-forum, as that is designed for discussions about how Photrio is operating.

(Emoticons added, to indicate that I find the location of the thread to be entertaining).
I've passed on the thread location concern to the moderators.
But more generally, after spending a whole chunk of time going through my Dad's slides, I agree.
Two observations though.
My mother seemed to be more reluctant to be in photos than I had remembered - she just isn't there very often.
And if you want to start appearing more in your photos, just have a child and make sure that they inherit a life long love of photography.
From 1973 - when I was 16 - and most likely using my Dad's camera. Mom, Dad and my brother:

 

[Photo Engineer]

Yes, twice, and the photos were a day apart, but I was doing the same thing. The photos appeared on national TV and it caused me a lot of trouble. It is a long painful and funny story.

PE

 

[winger]

There are a few pictures of me, but not many. I sorta don't mind having my picture taken, but I don't go out of my way to have it done. Most of the photos of me were taken by photographers with whom I was shooting.

 

[grahamp]

http://pinholeday.org/gallery/2018/index.php?id=1751&searchStr=Patterson

One of my 'softer' moments. I have no real objection to being photographed, but I do not project well.

 

[Wallendo]

I have around 30,000 images on my computer - digital images, scans of slides, prints or negatives. I am in very few of them. There are long periods of time during which I had no significant photographs taken, other than driver's licenses and school/work ID's. As the unofficial family photograph archivist, I realize that sometimes I am so busy archiving the images of others, that I may be forgotten to history.

I now make an effort to make sure that I am included in family photographs, even if it means buying the overpriced photographs sold by cruises, theme parks, and the like.

 

[MNM]

I saw myself in some in-car footage at Read Atlanta on YouTube if that counts. I was at the fence at turn 10 taking photos of the car as it did the same of me. Just a speck in the distance, but amusing nonetheless.

There are a number of photographs of me in my younger years but fewer these days. Perhaps I should correct that.

 

[Helios 1984]

A few years ago, I was mowing the grass on a summer day when suddenly a car pulled over. The window rolled down and a father & his son asked if they could take a picture of me. Apparently, When I wear a straw hat & a summer shirt, I look like Angel from Dexter (David Zayas).

 

[mike c]

Do traffic cams a intersections count.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Nick and I were photographed by Google Earth. We were eastbound on 490 going to GEM when the camera car passed us. You can see us both in Nick's truck.

PE

 

[rubbernglue]

I have had my picture taken many many times, and I never care the least. I dont really understand how some can be so furious by having their picture taken - do people genuinely think that I will go home and photoshop them into some porn video to upload all over the internet or what?

 

[Berkeley Mike]

I am the default subject for my photo classes. I was the default subject for light tests when I worked for different shooters.

Get over it.

 

[OptiKen]

Twice.
Camera broke both times!

Seriously, few photos have been taken of me mostly because I'm the one usually holding the camera.

 

[Vaughn]

I am sure over the past 40 years there have been plenty of photos of me with my ass sticking out from under the darkcloth in various national parks in various countries...with most of them erased.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

I have a firm, long-standing rule of NO PHOTOGRAPHS to be taken of me by anybody, anywhere, and I enforce it. Sometimes odd situations arise...
When photographing my niece outside the school in Beijing where she was assigned for a week, a crowd quickly appeared around us, left right and straight in front of the camera (!), and oddly, not a single person I looked at had a camera in the proper sense, but all smartphones (even very young children!). On this inauspicious occasion, I was cheerfully unrecognisable amongst the dull, grey and freezing landscape: my entire face was covered with a silk balaclava, a thick beanie on top and yellow-tinted glasses (to increase contrast). In essence, the clammering, rugged-up masses saw a (faceless!) photographer, dressed no differently to the millions of other residents of Beijing seeking protection from the bitter weather. In a land obsessed with technology, witnessing a real camera for them (I did not see any cameras during localised travels) must have come as a revelation, to say nothing of the loud whack of the shutter going off, which had the neat effect of sending them packing and the cheery, toothy-grinned students back to class!

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Yes. Even a couple online. I remain anonymous though. There's really only 2 of my family left and I'll likely live the longest so.......

I don't photograph other people often either. Maybe 5% of my total work is of people.