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  • people that wear sunglasses in pictures…
  • unfitgeezer
    Free Member

    …why ?

    I’ve never understood it, I get the whole yes the suns bright etc but it hides the face and doesn’t show a true reflection of the person.

    For me seeing the whole face is important.

    Your opinions if you have one are very welcome

    hols2
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    Personally, I like myself a lot.

    mikewsmith
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    It stops the camera stealing your soul

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    njee20
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    If it’s a “quick, let’s have a photo”, I CBA to take them off. People who wear them in ‘proper’ (e.g. Wedding) photos is a bit weird.

    muppetWrangler
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    A couple of thoughts:

    Not everyone thinks through a photo’s composition, lots of people just take whatever’s in front of them to capture that moment.

    Maybe, the sun is behind the photographer and the sunglasses stop the subject from screwing their eyes up and looking weird.

    If it is staged then the sunnies become a prop.

    AD
    Full Member

    I sort of see your point BUT I tend to wear sunglasses a lot because bright flashes of light/bright lights can trigger a migraine. I don’t like migraines very much so I tend to be more concerned about the potential migraine what the photographer thinks about the picture…
    Not everyone is wearing sunglasses to look cool – although I have little doubt it is an added bonus 🙂

    scaredypants
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    people who take off their sunglasses to have a photo taken are just vain

    rmacattack
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    its to hide the cocaine eyes, no??

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    As above. I squint really badly in sunlight so normally wear sunglasses and don’t take them off for photos

    skids
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    It does show a true reflection of the person, it is a natural photo, taking them off would make it a posed photo. You could say the exact same thing about clothes

    Kryton57
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    Just regarding your previous posts re anxiety; its trivial crap like this you need to bin. It really doesn’t matter what other people do with their sunglasses, don’t make it a concern, live & let live etc.

    deadkenny
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    I wear my sunglasses at night.

    muppetWrangler
    Free Member

    I wear my sunglasses when I make love to a beautiful woman, even when the lights are off.

    8)

    squirrelking
    Free Member

    Again, bright light doesn’t do my eyes any favours, I really can’t take it.

    flange
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    Nicely done Deadkenny, that’s stuck in my head now…

    IdleJon
    Full Member

    I hate posed photos. The best ones of my family, my kids, my childhood, are the ones which aren’t posed, when people were behaving naturally.

    So I’d prefer to take a photo of someone wearing sunglasses than have a big, cheesy grin on someone who normally never smiles.

    And if, in thirty years time, you can look back and say ‘why the hell was I looking like a fool wearing Blues Brothers-style glasses in the middle of Dartmoor” then all the better. 😆

    aP
    Free Member

    Mine are prescription. I never take my glasses off.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Again, bright light doesn’t do my eyes any favours, I really can’t take it.

    Gizmo? Is that you?

    theotherjonv
    Full Member

    it hides the face and doesn’t show a true reflection of the person.

    For me seeing the whole face is important.

    Stevie disagrees.

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    I wear (prescription) sun glasses most all the time and for cycling I have photochromic lenses. I forget I have them on so wouldn’t even be aware of it.

    I do try to remember to remove them briefly when meeting customers though. I think it’s quite rude and impersonal not to, so I am in some agreement with the OP.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Probably the only Man who can pull off Wayfarer Clubmasters..

    Looks damn fine to me.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    John Bishop’s looking well.

    onlysteel
    Free Member

    Look like black 1/2 frames. No class. Everyone who’s anyone goes tortoiseshell.

    ads678
    Full Member

    I wear sunglasses a lot because my eyes are really sensitive.

    A few years ago at a mates wedding I was called in to a photo and took my sunnies off, my mate then told the photographer to take the photo again but with me wearing my sunnies, because that’s me.

    5plusn8
    Free Member

    I can’t say whilst having my picture taken I have ever thought about it. I have a couple of pairs of Julbos that I often forget I am wearing, a bit like forgetting your glasses are on your forehead. So out and about with friends or on the trails if someone says “say cheese” I don’t think I ever realise I am wearing them or not.
    Aside from that the OP’s question feels like a category error, people don’t wear sunnys in pictures, the are wearing them, when their picture is taken and a vast proportion will not have thought about or had the time to do anything about it before the click.

    CountZero
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    I’m somewhat photophobic, bright light makes me squint, so any glasses I wear on bright days are heavily tinted, and so, on the highly unlikely chance that anyone should want to take a photo of me outdoors they’re going to have to accept that I’ll be wearing either prescription glasses with sunglass lenses, or actual sunnies if I’m wearing contacts.

    SaxonRider
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    It’s either sunglasses for me, or exceedingly squinty eyes. Neither are particularly becoming on me, but the former is a less dorky look than the latter.

    EDIT: Look up ‘iritis’.

    CountZero
    Full Member

    Oh, and this:

    Kryton57 – Member
    Just regarding your previous posts re anxiety; its trivial crap like this you need to bin. It really doesn’t matter what other people do with their sunglasses, don’t make it a concern, live & let live etc.

    mightymule
    Free Member

    Prescription sunglasses for me too – so yes, I generally keep them on, as I don’t like being blind.

    SaxonRider
    Full Member

    I haven’t noticed unfitgeezer being especially concerned with superficial things (at least seriously), so am not sure that your comment is warranted, Kryton57.

    Isn’t he just making silly conversation the way we all do?

    graemecsl
    Free Member

    Photochromatic here to, don’t even realise they’ve turned, wish I’d used them a lot more when I was younger, maybe I wouldn’t have damn cataracts now.

    Kryton57
    Full Member

    Isn’t he just making silly conversation the way we all do?

    Ive no idea Saxonrider. However, ive been on my own anxiety reduction program for some time now, therefore based on my experience and his previous question regarding his anxiety I posted a helpful suggestion. I wasnt being deliberately trite, just offering some advice.

    unfitgeezer
    Free Member

    Thanks for all replies

    The question was asked as I was at work so passing time, kryton57 is correct in saying I have a anxiety issues however this post wasn’t in anyway connected towards anxiety issues.

    slowoldgit
    Free Member

    People who say ‘People that’ when they should say ‘People who’.

    Prescription shades, migraines etc.

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Mine stay on so my sunglasses sponsor gets maximum exposure 8)

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    OP – when you’re taking these photos of people in dark glasses… are you using a flash?

    Daffy
    Full Member

    rOcKeTdOg – Member
    Mine stay on so my sunglasses sponsor gets maximum exposure

    Do they look like these?

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Just add snorkel for my ford crossing technique

    aracer
    Free Member

    I also remove sunglasses for the same reason when meeting people, even if it makes me squint (though mine are non prescription, so I can still see normally apart from the squinting). A photo is different though – why would I or should I take them off just because somebody is taking a photo of me? Putting sunglasses on for a photo may be naff, but that’s not what we’re discussing is it?

    Houns
    Full Member

    Never catch me doing it

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