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Many people tense up when they know a they are about to be photographed, or pose in highly unrealistic ways. Perhaps a trick camera timer could be devised that would flash and simulate the noises that I camera makes during an exposure and then take a real photo a few seconds afterwards, eliminating poseing,
fake smiles, that make for terrible photos anyway.
Other effects that could be selected as well, like extremely loud gunfire sound effects, or farting noises, triggered right before the picture so you could capture realistic expressions of joy, fear, or anger from people that even experienced models would be unable to duplicate.
Tim Hunkin: The Expressive Photobooth
http://www.timhunki...a104_photobooth.htm
Taking this idea to the next level. [jutta, Dec 11 2004]
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Thats the thing, i dont want pre-tensing, i want realistic expressions. And if they happen to get tense they must be so tense that there own personal ways of expressing a nervous breakdown show through. |
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Actually, what I need is a snapshot camera that doesn't shine a light on the people I am focusing on. I *only* like candid shots. |
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I find taking 2 photos in quick succession works. You get the proper pose, and then you get the pose falling apart. Failing that, run up to people and snap them before they notice: I tried that on one of my friends, and she reckons it's the best photo anyone ever took of her. |
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I think red-eye reduction which flashes a few times before the main photo also confuses the sitter and works to some extent. |
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Use a small tape recorder with a pre-recorded tape, play the tape as you're taking the picture. You could record all kinds of interesting effects- blood-curdling screams, private, intimate conversations, sounds of couples involved in intense lovemaking- Have a separate flash, set it off just before the "real" one. Hire a striptease dancer to stand behind you and expose strategic areas of anatomy just before the flash. Carry fake doggy doo-doo in your pocket, drop it in front of the subject(s) just before the picture is snapped... |
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maybe this would be illegal. if you agreed to a photo, but the photo was in fact taken after the person posing thought it was taken - litigation perhaps. |
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On the flipside - you could enter into an agreement to take someone's photo whilst on the street - then pretend to take the photo with a camera that was not in fact a camera - follow them and take a photo of them getting undressed in their hotel room with a real camera and if you were to get caught, you could simply state 'you said I could take your photo - that thing i had in the street wasn't even a real camera! here. look!' now there's an idea. |
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