vanity

[anotheranon]

I thought I had resigned myself to the fact that the camera always has a laugh at my expense.

Seriously. Save my wedding photos I have NEVER liked a picture of myself, but don't resist when friends/family want to take one because they don't seem to mind.

However, having seen some recent ones of myself.....

Dammit.

I may not be a supermodel, but I don't have a weak chin or puffy jowls, which invariably show up in candids. I'm starting to suspect that I need makeup and lighting just to look like myself.

It's been an age since I had any professional photos done. I'm considering spackling up and hiring someone, just so I have something bearable to share.

That, and some of the costumes could stand to be photographed.

Comments

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Pictures of you? In costume??????

Oh yes, please!!!!!!!! And just so y'all know, I think you're gorgeous, makeup or not!

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Aw [blush] Thank you!

I do have one photo (http://anotheranon.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/3169/49021) from 2008's local Twelfth Night event. A pro photographer had an impromptu studio set up at the event because portraiture was his hobby and he had plenty of subjects.

No jowls, no chinlessness -see what the right lighting can do? Mind, I am aggressively plain by Tudor standards - they liked fair skin and hair, of which I have neither.

[glitter-femme.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to suspect that I need makeup and lighting just to look like myself.

That's pretty much how photography works.