How to get people to not look like goobers

I knew I'd tasted them before.
At the movieola.

DAMphyne wrote in post #10169564
I knew I'd tasted them before.
At the movieola.

Where they are ridiculously overpriced.

sapearl wrote in post #10168981
It's really all about your technique and timing. If they look like a "goober" that's because you caught them at the perfect moment that makes them appear that way.

The fact is that EVERYBODY looks like a "goober" at SOME point in just about any conversation. You do, I do when we talk to our friends..... we just don't notice it because it's all one continuous movie stream.... until we freeze that one, embarrassing frame. Pay close attention to their speaking rhythm. Study their facial movements, ticks and mannerisms and patterns. Eventually you will be able to time the "good" shots and get better at your craft.

Anticipation is the word I use.

You anticipate correctly if you make a politician look like goober.

Part of the issue with memorization comes with the seemingly infinite combinations of face features, circumstances, words, expressions, and situations. Unless you're on a baby pool or a circuit where you are constantly covering Kobe, or Barrack, or your local Mayor, then you naturally develop certain awareness of "they look grumpy when not speaking", or etc. However, while attending many meetings during the span of only a week, these memorizations are merely a luxury (unless you want a pull the "overdoer" badge, and get some old tapes of the individual, and run some Hollywoodesque adaptation to their outward emotions). All you have is -at a local city council level, for example- no more than 5 to 15 minutes to snap a few acceptable frames to choose from, of a person you've never or rarely seen before.

Concentration is the key in my view. And to be brutally honest, when intuition reaches 100%, I let FPS do the rest. I admit I've been guilty of standing behind the Rebel XT guy with my 1DMk3, and zooming in with the 70-200/2.8, and hitting 10-12 frames in more or less a second.

Great advice Mario.

wtf is a goober?

http://www.urbandictio​nary.com …?defid=554883&t​erm=goober

Maybe a Goober is a sticky Booger.

Pretty good David - quite the opposite use of my post, but I cannot disagree with it .

DAMphyne wrote in post #10169680
Anticipation is the word I use.

You anticipate correctly if you make a politician look like goober.

My suggestion is to set your camera to multiple exposure, and then just hold down the release button for 6-8 frames for every "shot" you wanted to take. That way, you get all the pre-goober, full goober, and post-goober expressions. You never know when an editor will call and ask if you have any good almost-a-goober expressions of candidate so-and-so. And you will have one ready to go!