I got my pictures back yesterday from a shoot I did with a photographer a couple of weeks ago. I showed them to my acting coach last night, and she was really impressed. She even thought I should take them in to a very reputable modeling agency’s open call to see about modeling with them; hey, it’s worth a shot, right?
It seems, though, that she thinks I am better-looking in pictures than in real life. She has told me twice “you photograph exremely well, amazingly well,” in a somewhat incredulous tone. She was also hesitant to have me send out the picture about which she really said, “wow.”
“The thing is,” she said, “if we send that picture out, they’ll be expecting something specific, and then when you show up it will be something different.”
Perhaps it is not that she does not think I am good-looking, so much as the picture leads people to believe my personality is different from what it is. In the picture, I look really relaxed, smooth and confident. I actually look somewhat thoughtless, too, as though I am good enough for anyone.
I begin to question whether it is a compliment when someone says you are photogenic.
The picture:
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The photo IS very good, but i think what she means is that the photo gives an impression that you will have a certain personality….which you don’t necessarily have. and that’s not to say your personality sucks (which it doesn’t); it just isn’t what this photo leads you to believe.
i’ve always thought your sister managed to look better in photos than real life. again, that’s not to say that she isn’t cute–cause she totally is–but she NEVER takes a bad picture. your brother too, for that matter (although i am biased.)
Comment by L,TheSisterInLaw July 2, 2007 @ 2:28 amon the subject of looking better in photos then real life: all the kids in your family seem to have this “problem.”