A lot of us hate having our pictures taken.
The reason for this is that it always starts with, “You just push this button here” and it ALWAYS turns out that we all get into position and the person pshes the button and nothing happens.
Then, “Oh. You didn’t fliss the flugeron” or something, so they try again. We all get into position and once again, it doesn’t work.
And all the time you have to smile.
And each time yo have to smile you feel sillier and, more important, dishonest.
When they finally do get the picture it is never right. “You move over here, you move over here, and SMILE.”
For people who are basically honest, picture-taking is agony, because you are smiling a lie all the time.
Ted Bundy always had perfect smile for the cameras. He was a psychopath so he could smile or cry on command.
Like Bill Clinton.
What one should do before taking a picture is have the person doingit take a couple of pictures before he rounds up the whole herd.
And he should not even MENTION a picture to anybody before he has decided EXACTLY how his victims should line up.
A professional photographer starts with a rule: “Film is free. He takes pictures like a person handling a pump shotgun.
And he is dealing with a PROFESSIONAL model.
He doesn’t just say “Smile” and then take a picture in silence. He has a constant patter aimed at getting expressions from the model.
I am no lady’s man, but I know that “You’re gorgeous” will get a smile out of a woman a lot quicker than “Smile!” will.
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