Do you smile in your pics,I cant ?
By ronnyb
@ronnyb (6113)
Jamaica
March 5, 2010 7:39am CST
No matter how I try I cant seem to smile in my pics .I am not bashing anyone ,in fact I admire those people who can but I find it somewhat weird to just smile when I am not being given a joke .Sometimes I force a smile but just when the flash is about to go off I get back serious again .
So tell me how can you just smile when you are taking a pic?
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
5 Mar 10
Just resort to the old "say CHEESE" although that can look like a grimace if you don't like cheese!
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
6 Mar 10
My innocent baby brother wondered why we had to say "CHEESE" when voices couldn't be recorded in photographs. Which also reminds me of my aunt who seemed a little behind in the mainstream called technology and wouldn't like having her picture taken if she hadn't sprayed perfume. Like it would matter if she stinks or not.
Ehem....just babbling here.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
6 Mar 10
Too funny!! Just a thought but maybe your aunt had a secret yen for the photographer?
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
6 Mar 10
I do smile, I can’t help it and if the photographer takes ages to shoot I start laughing, I don’t know why; it could be that I feel really silly posing for a photo! I don’t usually like the experience but if someone really wants me in a picture I will oblige. I find it difficult to be serious like in passport photos for example; I guess we are opposites in this area!
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
5 Mar 10
I have never liked to have my picture made & no, i can't smile at a little box. I have always felt silly doing that. Guess i'm just not photogenic, lol.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
6 Mar 10
I do fine smiling for a picture as long as the person taking it gets it done quickly. I'm not good at holding a smile.
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@phoenix8606 (4942)
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5 Mar 10
hi! yes, i always try to smile on the photos, but sometimes I just don;'t feel that happy to smile or to make a proper smile :) But,I actually don't smile with a wide open mouth because my front teeth are a little bit too big :) and I am ashamed about that, so that's why i just make one small smile
"She's got a smile that it seems to me..."
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@keelymcilwain (797)
• Canada
8 Mar 10
I have a hard time smiling in photos as well. Lots of times it looks like I am trying to hard to smile. Then some I look like I am so said yet it could be the happiest day of my life. So to get a perfect picture I try about 3-5 times to make sure at least one turns out ok to show people. Just think of happy or funny things that have happened when the flash is about to go off you wont even be thinking about the camera and it will look more natural. Try getting someone to say funny stuff to you while they snap a bunch of pictures while your laughing away.
@sushie93 (1355)
• France
16 Mar 10
You're not the one, i can't smile, i find that weird to smile at a box xD.
I just try to make a little mini smile with closed mouth, if i smile with a big smile which showing my teeth, it will look like a funny grimace than a smile lol.
Lol, your discussion recalls me an episode from Friends, i don't remember the season but it was an episode where Monica and Chandler go to the photographer to take a picture of them and Chandler can't smile at all, when he tried to smile, it was a grimace very very funny! Lol!
@melloncollie (661)
• Philippines
8 Mar 10
For a start, I'm never comfortable being photograph. But I enjoy photographing people. I just feel awkward seeing myself electronically or in print. Most of my pictures, you will see that I was really not comfortable. I can count in my fingers the number of times I was actually photographed smiling or laughing.