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Have YOU Been Photographed?

I'll be in Rochester just for the afternoon of May 22nd -- flying in to Buffalo just before noon. I'll have my 5x7 Eastman View No.2 with me -- who knows when in the last 100 or so years it has visited home!
 
I sometimes feel that old.

Hope to see you or talk to you nevertheless. Nick and Mark have my phone # and I may have lunch with them on the 18th, Thursday.

PE
 
Arklatexian said:
Have YOU Been Photographed?
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Yes, an unfortunate occurrence in every case. The place for me is behind the thing, not in front of it. Trust me on this.
 
I am very happy to be photographed. I think it's only fair. But usually when I am out with other people they know I am going to be recording the day myself photographically so they don't bother. Ergo there are far fewer photos of me than of the other people and the things we did or saw. Having been on holiday several times with the spousal unit and our best friends...the only photos of me were selfies taken with my phone because everyone else knew I was taking plenty of pictures. Rather sad, really.
 
I sure have. I actually have zero problems with getting my photo taken. I find photography to be quite enjoyable both as the picture taker and as a subject. Of course, I’m one of those younger fellows (relatively speaking) where photos being taken with a digital camera on a regular basis is quite the norm.
 
I just found one of the photos taken of me. It was a Polaroid 4x5 with negative. I washed the negative in the water fountain while being watched by Gus Grissom.

I still have my hat and booties from the excursion into the clean room to see first hand, the Mercury capsules there.

PE
 

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Adrian Bacon said:
I sure have. I actually have zero problems with getting my photo taken. I find photography to be quite enjoyable both as the picture taker and as a subject. Of course, I’m one of those younger fellows ...
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Good-looking and younger folks usually don't mind being photographed and often enjoy it, I think. However, being an unattractive creature, I choose not to be in photos.
 
I like to sit in front of camera, with a slight twist of taking some characterization. Sat in a tintypist studio, and now in the camera club I do hop in often. A fellow member said I was good at staying still, while trying some LF with me as subject.
Haven't done much self portaiture, and the Fuji 6x9 I have does not have a self timer. Ages since I thought about getting an autoknips or maybe a very long release instead.

Not all young folks get to like being photographed. I have a resolution of taking more portraits but my folks are a bit too elusive! And a camera still instills much more respect than a cellphone, which does require a softer interaction.
PE, don't think I can put any words to that. It's a honor to have your around here, it makes my mind think on how you were alongside such people and are here to show and tell. Also how your work in Kodak and contributions here are just invaluable. Many would have ran away!
 
You have to understand that at that time, it was just another job. A day at work. Whatever words come to mind. We did not feel the gravitas of the events surrounding us. We were just people doing a job.

PE
 
Theo Sulphate said:
Good-looking and younger folks usually don't mind being photographed and often enjoy it, I think. However, being an unattractive creature, I choose not to be in photos.
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Hey now... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... I don't consider myself to be particularly good looking. The way I see it is I have way more other things to worry about than my looks, especially since how I look in a photo isn't going to differ much from how people see me in real life any way, so I might as well go with it and enjoy the process of making those memories, as I'd rather have those memories for my family than not.
 
Photo Engineer said:
You have to understand that at that time, it was just another job. A day at work. Whatever words come to mind. We did not feel the gravitas of the events surrounding us. We were just people doing a job.

PE
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I remember the day of the Apollo fire. That was a horrible blow. I was 10 at the time. Brave men. I recently got a couple, now 4 month old kittens, one I named Gus. His full name is V.I. "Gus" Grissom. He's a feline rocket.
 
Theo Sulphate said:
Good-looking and younger folks usually don't mind being photographed and often enjoy it, I think. However, being an unattractive creature, I choose not to be in photos.
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Why would a photographer presume to photograph others, yet resist being personally photographed? Seem fundamentally RUDE.
 
jtk said:
Why would a photographer presume to photograph others, yet resist being personally photographed? Seem fundamentally RUDE.
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Which is why I always ask someone if it's ok to photograph them. I presume nothing.

Also, I only photograph friends or family; I never photograph people I don't know.

When I wrote "Good-looking and younger folks usually don't mind being photographed and often enjoy it", I was referring to my observations in general about those people, not that I was making the photos.
 
I'm somewhere in a couple of Spencer Tunick photographs from 1998 in Montréal, that's the extent of my fame...
 
I always feel out of place in front of a camera, but I don't forbid my photo being taken.

Most of my "appearances" are in backgrounds of low-budget films when not enough extras could be recruited...

I play a good wineo!
 
Yes I have. Abigail Ekue just photographed me for her next Bare Men book. There are a few photographs of me on her site but I'm not providing links. The pictures are anything but family friendly. I bet you can find me though. Look for the RB 67.
 
I've sat for portraits, hired photographers for my PR, and been photographed incidentally at work (my work was photography).

Valuable learning experiences.
 
I hate being photographed, I much prefer being on the other side of the camera, so my friends always complain that I take pictures of everyone, but myself.



When I was at uni, a photographer took this portrait of me with a medium format camera and it's one of the very few pictures I don't mind even though I've changed a lot since then (it must have been around a decade ago).

His name is Jason Hynes and you can see follow his work on instagram here
 
Often, I don't like being photographed, but very often when I am using a folder, older Rolleiflex or any of my old cameras someone, often with a camera phone or compact digital camera, even sometimes by folk with Film Slr's
 
About five years ago I took a Speed Graphic to an Andrews AFB open house. There were many more photos taken of me taking photographs than I photographed.
 
IDK 20-25 years ago I was photographed once in a while
when I was involved with the IGnobel awards and AIR,
I try to stay out of the lens' way.
I was even cloned years ago but haven't done that recently either.
 
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