Comments on: Wipe That Smile Off Your Face http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2009/10/31/wipe-that-smile-off-your-face/ The Writing Photographer Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:48:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Smiles | sam bloomberg-rissman photography http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2009/10/31/wipe-that-smile-off-your-face/comment-page-1/#comment-23115 Smiles | sam bloomberg-rissman photography Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:12:56 +0000 http://rasmusrasmussen.com/?p=821#comment-23115 [...] recently read a complaint from Rasmus Rasmussen about forced smiles. I agree with his argument that a forced, fake smile does not make a good picture.  Life [...] [...] recently read a complaint from Rasmus Rasmussen about forced smiles. I agree with his argument that a forced, fake smile does not make a good picture.  Life [...]

]]> By: Angela http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2009/10/31/wipe-that-smile-off-your-face/comment-page-1/#comment-22479 Angela Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:41:39 +0000 http://rasmusrasmussen.com/?p=821#comment-22479 Agreed. I was shooting my nine- and seven-year-old nieces this past weekend. When told to smile, they look forced and unnatural. When I caught them off guard - smiling while at play or not smiling at all - they look positively lovely. For one of my favourites for the weekend, I caught the elder girl unprepared and she's looking quite seriously into the camera. I think I captured a maturity in her I hadn't noticed before. Agreed. I was shooting my nine- and seven-year-old nieces this past weekend. When told to smile, they look forced and unnatural. When I caught them off guard – smiling while at play or not smiling at all – they look positively lovely.

For one of my favourites for the weekend, I caught the elder girl unprepared and she’s looking quite seriously into the camera. I think I captured a maturity in her I hadn’t noticed before.

]]> By: Tyler Olson http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2009/10/31/wipe-that-smile-off-your-face/comment-page-1/#comment-22367 Tyler Olson Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:40:00 +0000 http://rasmusrasmussen.com/?p=821#comment-22367 Nice post. I agree with what you said. When I am posing for a picture I think it feels so fake and shallow to paste on a smile. I have started to just look at the camera with the 'face' I currently have. The problem i found with that though (over the last year or so) is I always look 'unhappy' with a regular / normal face when compared to everyone beside me who pasted on a happy smile :) so now I have tried to eek out at least a little smile. It is strange though, it is like we don't really want to remember the past as it actually was but what we wanted it to be. We want to remember it like there was smiles all the time. It would make for interesting photo albums though if no one was allowed to smile. It would be much more real. Nice post. I agree with what you said. When I am posing for a picture I think it feels so fake and shallow to paste on a smile. I have started to just look at the camera with the ‘face’ I currently have. The problem i found with that though (over the last year or so) is I always look ‘unhappy’ with a regular / normal face when compared to everyone beside me who pasted on a happy smile :) so now I have tried to eek out at least a little smile.

It is strange though, it is like we don’t really want to remember the past as it actually was but what we wanted it to be. We want to remember it like there was smiles all the time. It would make for interesting photo albums though if no one was allowed to smile. It would be much more real.

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