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Why should I say "Cheese"?
On 11/27/2017 1:02 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Nov 27, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): On 11/27/2017 9:05 AM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 27, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): On 11/27/2017 4:11 AM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 27, 2017, wrote (in ): Why should I say "Cheese"? Ever since I was born in the 1950's I have been told to say "cheese" whenever someone wants to take my picture. WHY? ...because saying “Limburgerâ€, “cheddarâ€, “quantumâ€, “indubitablyâ€, or especially “Trump" doesn’t produce the ****-eating, out of context, toothy grin that saying “cheese†does. Make them say Checks Czechs? You gt a different expression if you say Slovakian. ....but if you are after that enigmatic Mona Lisa smile have them say romance, or Venetian. And a good poker player will say Vladimir -- PeterN |
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Why should I say "Cheese"?
On 28/11/2017 1:01 @wiz, Savageduck wrote:
On Nov 27, 2017, Whisky-dave wrote (in ): We're not sure when or where a photographer first asked his or her subjects to state the name of the delicious dairy product, but we do know that when you say "cheese," the corners of your mouth turn up, your cheeks lift and your teeth show. It looks like a smile, and since smiling is what we do in pictures, the instruction seems pretty practical. I wonder how this works in other languages . I'll ask some foreigners I know. Neither the Portuguese queijo, nor the Spanish queso fit. In Portugal it's customary to say "honest politician". Guaranteed at least a smirk... |
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Why should I say "Cheese"?
PeterN writes:
On 11/27/2017 10:03 AM, wrote: snip If you've seen those old time B&W pictures from the 1800s. you'll notice that no one smiled and never showed their teeth. I dont know if this is true, but I was told by someone who seems to know history, that the reason they did not smile was because many of them lacked teeth, or had bad looking teeth. Considering the lack of dentistry back then, this could have likely been true for particularly older people. My theory is: Bad teeth make if difficult to chew. That's why barbecue, a method of making meat tender, became so popular. Old lenses were very 'slow' (pick up a camera from even the 1930s, you'll find they often didn't go any faster than say f/5.6). Old photographic processes weren't particularly fast ("high ISO") either. If you're sitting for a photo in natural light, and the lens is slow, and the medium is slow, you may have to sit for 30 seconds. I, for one, cannot maintain a good smile for 30 seconds when I'm posing for a picture. It's a lot easier to sit stone-faced. nuwen |
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Why should I say "Cheese"?
On 11/28/2017 12:16 PM, Nuwen wrote:
PeterN writes: snip I, for one, cannot maintain a good smile for 30 seconds when I'm posing for a picture. It's a lot easier to sit stone-faced. Would it be easier for you to smile at the thought of getting unexpected checks? ;-) -- PeterN |
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Why should I say "Cheese"?
On 11/28/2017 4:11 AM, Noons wrote:
On 28/11/2017 1:01 @wiz, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 27, 2017, Whisky-dave wrote (in ): We're not sure when or where a photographer first asked his or her subjects to state the name of the delicious dairy product, but we do know that when you say "cheese," the corners of your mouth turn up, your cheeks lift and your teeth show. It looks like a smile, and since smiling is what we do in pictures, the instruction seems pretty practical. I wonder how this works in other languages . I'll ask some foreigners I know. Neither the Portuguese queijo, nor the Spanish queso fit. In Portugal it's customary to say "honest politician". Guaranteed at least a smirk...* The expression, "honest politician", sounds like an oxymoron. -- PeterN |
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Why should I say "Cheese"?
On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:48:19 -0500, Ken Hart
wrote: There are other words that work just as well. Try words with the long "ee" followed by a "Z": freeze, ease, wheeze, etc. Now we know why the police always say "FREEZE" when they point a gun at a criminal. They want the criminal to see their smile. |
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Why should I say "Cheese"?
"Savageduck" wrote
| WHY? | | ...because saying "Limburger", "cheddar", "quantum", | "indubitably", or especially "Trump" doesn't produce the ****-eating, | out of context, toothy grin that saying "cheese" does. | ?? When I say cheese I just slightly open my mouth. (Whisky-Dave's link notwithstanding. I certainly don't turn up the corners of my mouth. All of the sounds are produced without using the teeth. In fact, cheese is an unusually flat word, requiring almost no movement to enunciate it clearly.) I'm not sure there's any word that requires much more. F and V require upper teeth against lower lip, but who wants to look bucktoothed?. If saying a word produced a grin (or frown) then it would get very confusing trying to interpret speech. Maybe the tradition was just a silliness to make people smile with amusement. Or a distraction so that they would drop self-consciousness for a moment. |
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Why should I say "Cheese"?
"Ken Hart" wrote
| The word used is not important; you are looking for a smile expression. | The word "cheese" forms the face and mouth into an appearance of a smile. | | There are other words that work just as well. Try words with the long | "ee" followed by a "Z": freeze, ease, wheeze, etc. Have you tried it in the mirror? I only see my lips part slightly. The lips have no role in pronouncing eez, so the idea that it causes an upturn at the sides makes no sense. |
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Why should I say "Cheese"?
On 11/27/2017 9:05 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On Nov 27, 2017, PeterN wrote (in article ): On 11/27/2017 4:11 AM, Savageduck wrote: On Nov 27, 2017, wrote (in ): Why should I say "Cheese"? Ever since I was born in the 1950's I have been told to say "cheese" whenever someone wants to take my picture. WHY? ...because saying “Limburger”, “cheddar”, “quantum”, “indubitably”, or especially “Trump" doesn’t produce the ****-eating, out of context, toothy grin that saying “cheese” does. Make them say Checks Czechs? No I was talking about wallet fattening, not citizens of another country. My reference usually makes people smile. Your reference depends on circumstances when it comes to smiling. -- PeterN |
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