week six: more about interaction

So you know that moment when someone points a camera in your face and you... smile? But it isn't a real smile, right? It's wide or open mouthed or expresses something you don't really feel at the moment. At the CPC, they call this Photo Face. And we all do it.

But if you want a real photo of someone, something that gets at the reality of a person, you have to find a way to help your subject navigate away from this face and into something truer—and, many times, something more interesting.

After talking about Photo Face in class, it was pretty easy for me to see myself doing it here:


And not so much here:

But again (in a way) here:


It's hard NOT to do photo face when you know someone is photographing you.