I'd rather be behind the camera?

[John Bragg]

So, as a photographer of people, do you mind being the subject ? Personally I am not over enthused about it but I seldom refuse. How do you feel ?

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

I don't care to have my picture taken much.

 

[Dogman]

Don't mind. I'm handsome, young, slim and tall and look great in pictures.

 

[agentlossing]

I HATE being in photos. I can't look cheery. My wife usually picks the best out of the unintentional scowls.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I was asked maybe couple of times to be as included subject. For some local papers. Never been asked on the streets. I look like regular hipster, nothing extra ordinary.
I see how some shy dudes are playing with their cameras at me from great distance. I think, I'm just making their landscapes alive.
On parties I'm the only one with camera. I'm glad if someone offers of taking pictures of me included in the wilderness.

 

[Pál_K]

At 20 years old or earlier, sometimes I allowed myself to be in photos. In this photo, I asked my father to make a photo of me with our cat (the true subject of the photo).

But many people in school and on the street told me how ugly I was and girls mocked my appearance, so I actually didn’t want to see myself in photos or in the mirror.

Although this photo was made in 1973, at that time I just developed the negative - no prints. In fact, I saw this photo for the first time last week only because I’m now scanning my old negatives.

 

[Godfrey]

...
But many people in school and on the street told me how ugly I was and girls mocked my appearance, so I actually didn’t want to see myself in photos or in the mirror.
...

Youth is cruel. And stupid.
That's a nice photo of a handsome young man.

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I don't care whether others make photos of me. If they want me to pose, I have problems because I'm not very good at posing. I don't always like the photos made of me, but what does that matter? I am what I am, I look like what I look like... I don't seek to have my photo taken very often, but I don't care one way or another if I'm in someone's photos.

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[Vince Lupo]

I don’t get weirded-out by it and honestly I don’t mind it at all. Sometimes I actually like the results.

One of my favourite pictures of my wife and I, taken a few years ago by a friend of ours with my phone.


Riley and Loopie by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

 

[Pál_K]

Youth is cruel. And stupid.
That's a nice photo of a handsome young man.

Yes. I believed them and their influence lasted almost 60 years. Thank you for the kind words.

 

[leicapixie]

I shot tons of candids, some with slight of hand, others, well posed.
I shot headshots for agencies and movie companies.. heads on sticks.
Beauty a very fragile thing! Some of the most "beautiful people" were horrid.
Now I am old dude and carrying ancient cameras, I am a Target!
But I get my shots in return. Oh! I am a ham in photos..
Wanna make new and old friends carry a Rolleiflex!..

 

[Godfrey]

I shot tons of candids, some with slight of hand, others, well posed.
I shot headshots for agencies and movie companies.. heads on sticks.
Beauty a very fragile thing! Some of the most "beautiful people" were horrid.
Now I am old dude and carrying ancient cameras, I am a Target!
But I get my shots in return. Oh! I am a ham in photos..
Wanna make new and old friends carry a Rolleiflex!..

Yes. Same with a Minox B. Or a Polaroid SX-70. Or a Hasselblad 500CM ...



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[Richard G]

I might give some pretense of reluctance but even though I mostly look awful and my eyes aren’t quite straight and I have much less hair than I see in the mirror, I really don’t mind. While my wife is never happy with my pictures of her, the ones she takes of me, often with the cat, I like. There would be almost no photograph of me at all except for work or other document purposes if it weren’t for camera phones, especially the iPhone.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

I don't like having my picture taken, because I know for a fact that someone evil is trying to trap my soul in that box...