Smile
Today over on A Photo Editor there's a link to a Rodney Smith blog post about smiling in photos. Rodney doesn't think smiling photos have substance. I don't know that I agree with that, but I know I tend to like non-smiling photos. I have a total of seven on my entire website and only one in my portfolio (although it depends on what qualifies as a smile... there are some very slight smiles that I didn't count). I tend to take things a bit further though… It seems I don't even like people looking at the camera.
I posted about this a year ago, but looking over recent shoots I think I'm getting worse. I routinely choose the photos where the subject isn't looking at the camera (I will say, the client rarely chooses those). I keep wondering what this says about myself.
![Tamaryn](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c4e4b000f9c70bd4b7/1321872253000/Tamaryn-20110226-054-2.jpg?format=original)
![Emilys Army](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c4e4b000f9c70bd4c8/1321872560000/EmilysArmy-20110525-058.jpg?format=original)
![Emilys Army](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c4e4b000f9c70bd4bd/1321872330000/EmilysArmy-20110525-047.jpg?format=original)
![Best Coast](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c4e4b000f9c70bd4cb/1321872614000/BestCoast-20110226-022.jpg?format=original)
![Nick Zinner](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c4e4b000f9c70bd4c2/1321872358000/NickZinner-20110225-022.jpg?format=original)
![Andrew Bangs](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c4e4b000f9c70bd4ce/1321872711000/AndrewBangs-Lightleak.jpg?format=original)
![AK](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c4e4b000f9c70bd4d1/1321872799000/AKSmith-20110514-001.jpg?format=original)
![Tony Turiello](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c5e4b000f9c70bd4d7/1321872904000/TonyTuriello-20090113-012.jpg?format=original)
![Enrique Allen](http://static.squarespace.com/static/5283d33fe4b065af7e0f0f97/528ac1abe4b000f9c70bd010/528ac1c5e4b000f9c70bd4d4/1321872857000/EnriqueAllen-20110731-020.jpg?format=original)