- Never, ever, ever, under my hopes for your penalty of death by serious torture, ever, ever, tell your subject, individual or group, child or adult, to say, “Cheese”, when taking or preparing to take their picture. I can’t tell you the horrors that professional portrait photographer endure when trying to take pictures of people, especially children and youth, who have been conditioned by this photographically malignant word. Don't say any other cheesy, or stupid word either.
There are a variety of ways to gain a suitable expression. In the case of an entire group, whom you can’t possibly watch all faces of at one time, simply say something like this:
“Please listen to me as I count to three. I will count to three several times, and take your picture each time I say three.
“Please keep your eyes open and on me; you, yes, there in the center left, look at me please, not at the dog behind me. Thank you.”
“Everyone please just have a pleasant and natural face. Now I am going to count to three—eyes open wide, looking at me, one, two three. Great! Now again.”
“Repeat this as many times as a general rule as there are people in the picture, and at least twice that when three persons or less.”
- Unless it is a panoramic
Wow! I just used "Blog It" to reblog one of my own blog posts from a few years back. I didn't know blog-It allowed that (although i don't know why it wouldn't have). I may do this again, as it will allow me to "clean up" old posts and get them in new search engines. Not that I have anything "dirty" in them. They do need to be spell-checked, and revised as most of them were first-drafts written under huge time-constraints.
Another reason to reblog my own posts, is that between a half dozen weblogs that I have published over time, some of the posts have a mix-and-match application between blogs. Or, they may merit being posted in different categories--such as this one, I am posting to the "Weblogs" Category--explaining why I am doing this, for the benefit of other bloggers. And still yet, it is an easy way to review and then post older posts to social media sites that I didn't initially belong to.Typepad makes this very easy to do now, from within Typepad.
I only wish that I could edit my added comments from within Blog-It because a part of my brain often goes missing when I try to spell, lately I have even been using the wrong words, which I NEVER did before. It varies from day to day, time to time, and migraine to no-brain to okay-brain.
There are several other reasons to reblog your own posts; maybe I can get a few comments about this from others.
