Icons Again
May. 2nd, 2003 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynSo, I'm looking at this icon I have and thinking, "You know, at least I could get a picture of myself that was in focus to use for an icon, if I'm not going to settle on a drawing to use."
And I'm digging through albums and packages of pictures and emails with jpgs. For a little context: I attend a couple of sf conventions a year, and over the course of each I'll wear between eight and sixteen or so different outfits. (Some people go to cons for the panels, some to hang out with their own kind, others to meet artists and authors. Me, I go to change clothes.) Because the cons are pretty small and not a whole lot of people costume, and I go through so much clothing, I attract what might be considered more than my fair share of photographers. The ones who use digital cameras usually email me the results, and a couple who've used film over the years make a point of giving their subjects copies of every picture.
So I'm looking through this stuff, and I say to Lut, "How can I like the way I look, and have, roughly, I don't know, a bazillion pictures of myself, and yet not have any good headshots?"
Lut chuckles and answers, "All of the people taking those photos are men. They're not looking at your face."
Sigh.
And I'm digging through albums and packages of pictures and emails with jpgs. For a little context: I attend a couple of sf conventions a year, and over the course of each I'll wear between eight and sixteen or so different outfits. (Some people go to cons for the panels, some to hang out with their own kind, others to meet artists and authors. Me, I go to change clothes.) Because the cons are pretty small and not a whole lot of people costume, and I go through so much clothing, I attract what might be considered more than my fair share of photographers. The ones who use digital cameras usually email me the results, and a couple who've used film over the years make a point of giving their subjects copies of every picture.
So I'm looking through this stuff, and I say to Lut, "How can I like the way I look, and have, roughly, I don't know, a bazillion pictures of myself, and yet not have any good headshots?"
Lut chuckles and answers, "All of the people taking those photos are men. They're not looking at your face."
Sigh.
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Date: 2003-05-03 03:46 pm (UTC)Why, thank you, sir. I shall take both of those as a compliment. :)
The oldest ones are from six years back -- those being the "Glamour Shots" pictures -- "sly", "smile", and "content", which also heavily disguise me under layers of makeup and careful lighting. (The rest just disguise me by being a tad blurry). The others are all from sometime in the last five years. I'm not certain of the date on most of them, but this one -- "hmm" -- and "tired" are both from Memorial Day weekend last year.