Normal People Are Weird…
I’m currently in the process of building a new computer for my sister (yay, I don’t have to support her 10-year-old frankenbox anymore!), and part of the process was to transfer her files from her old machine. She was especially concerned about her photos, and I was bored, so I took a quick glance through a folder with pictures she took of herself.
How many of you have seen the movie Zoolander? It’s about a male model who always takes pictures with the exact same facial expression, despite calling them different things. My sister’s photo collection is kinda like that. There are dozens of shots of herself, and while the clothing/accessories and backdrops change (with the file names reflecting this), every single photo is taken from the exact same angle (the famous Myspace Angle, an overhead shot from the subject’s left hand), with the exact same unnatural puckered lips/pouty face expression.
After determining that every single picture out of like 30 was like this, I had a little fun by flipping through all of them very rapidly in the photo previewer, like those weird photo-morph TV commercials. The effect was surreal, to say the least, because every photo was lined up very closely to the others. Like, to the point that it looks like she shot a sequence of photos in a studio with a tripod.
The photographer in me feels dirty now, and wants to go take pictures of trees.
August 9th, 2008 at 2:21:07
I’m so drained I can’t breathe correctly (breathing in five years worth of dust from under furniture for hours doesn’t help), but I must inquire: Why not sunsets?
August 9th, 2008 at 2:40:08
Maybe she was trying to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo
August 9th, 2008 at 4:37:10
Reminds me of the YTMND meme, “Lindsey Lohan never changes facial expressions,” along with the furry knockoff regarding Michele Light pictures.
August 9th, 2008 at 7:36:08
I’m not entirely sure that this constitutes as “normal”.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:25:33
The photographer in me feels dirty now, and wants to go take pictures of trees.
You too, huh?
Couldn’t get to sleep myself and the sun was starting to come up so I went and took shots of the local tree lines.
And its always fun having a city cop roll past you while you’re on the wrong side of the fence explaining you were simply taking a picture.
August 9th, 2008 at 9:35:11
Just make sure you take those pictures from different angles.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:10:02
That’s kinda funny, and sad. :-p
August 9th, 2008 at 22:11:18
What zoeriko said. As soon as I read the words “same expression” my inner heckler was rooting, “Flipbook ‘em! Flipbook ‘em! YAAAAAAAAY HE DID!”
…Whee. I think I’ll send him to bed early tonight.
August 10th, 2008 at 23:05:37
Which reminds me. Must start taking my camera out on caches with me when I go on them.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:35:23
thats what I was thinking of but I couldn’t remember her name!
August 12th, 2008 at 1:36:50
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/TreeLover_Shag/treesex.jpg