there's a reason why...
...i hate taking passport photos. cuz they never come out decent. the only time i had a decent photo was this time when i was in dhaka applying for the canadian entry visa. and that's because i was smiling ear to ear. wanted to try a different approach you see. pp photos are always so serious. i may have written about this, but the photo was too smiley and the lady at the canadian high commission who took my docs said that they couldn't accept that, but that she'd ask her director anyway. he said it was fine, so they took it. i think i got away with that simply because i was in b'desh. in this country, however, you have to go with a neutral face. well, my neutral face is ugly. scary, even. and my neck is darker than my face, which only seems to come out really really prominently in pp photos, and so i look like a freak. i'm like a three-toned head - face one colour, neck one colour, any exposed skin below the neck (starting at the collarbone) is an entirely different colour altogether. and it's not bad makeup either. i don't put on any makeup at all, unless it's a special occasion. so, what gives?!
still haven't done the task of telling CS i don't want her to come to the gym with me. the passive aggressive person that i am, i just went to the gym without even making her aware that i was going, and also at a completely different time than i usually go (but that only has to do with my day's schedule). i figure, i can tell her eventually that i don't really want her to go with me...when she figures out that i'm not telling her what time i'm going anymore. interesting thing happened at the gym, though. it was really empty...and at one point i was there by myself, not even any of the gym staff were there. so i got on the ball! i did my crunches on the ball (you can really feel those crunches if you're on the ball!), and then tried doing some back stretching, which didn't work so well cuz i almost fell off. but i'm not a fitness ball virgin anymore! :o) i shouldn't admit this on such a public place, but whatever...the bf is getting me a ball for a gift...i asked for it actually, so i don't know if it's technically a gift...and it's my first purchase off the tv! well, again, technically, it's not my purchase, but you know what i mean.
super hungry, but don't feel like making anything proper to eat. happens too often.
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Tips I've got from professionals for taking better passport photos.
1) Angle your body at 30-40 degrees away from straight-on to the camera and use your neck to look make your head look directly back at the camera. Keep your chin ever so very slightly down and look up into the camera
2) Have a "neutral smile", purse your lips and think of something rude/funny
3) VERY IMPORTANT, get some aluminium kitchen foil (you may want to hide it in a large folder to get to the booth). Make sure you SCRUNCHED the foil before hand and then unscrunch and flatten it (so that light dispersal is more even)...Then hold the foil below your neck line/above your lap and just out site of the camera's view, it will give you a far more flattering look.
4) The newer digital passport booths that give you some options to accept/reject photos before commiting to print give a more flattering digitised looks. But whichever photo booth you use the camera's quality is never good enough to make your make-up look too caked on, so pile it on as flattering as you wish.
well, thank you, but you're a little late. the ugly picture's taken, and stapled to the application...and i didn't really go to a booth, went to the photo place at the university. but i honestly just never take good pp photos. maybe next time, i'll try your tips :)
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