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why do americans seem to always have thick necks in photographs? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Both men and women. Is it to do with the way they smile/pose for the camera or something? Seriously, I can almost tell someone is American by the way their neck looks in a photo

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[–] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't know if this is the case with you but if you have naturally wide eyes (say, anxiety for example) then a full tooth smile is creepy looking. Relaxed eyes on the other hand (think pictures of happily stoned people) are fine showing full mouth IMO.

Although some people "grit" or "bare(/bear?)" their teeth in an attempt to fake a natural laughter smile and... no. The muscles around the mouth should be relaxed not tense. There's no substitute for a candid laughter smile. But not many people can fake the crows feet in the eyes of a real smile, so if someone is more comfortable smiling with no teeth showing, that's more than fine.

I've done a bit of photography in my day.

[–] railsdev@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If I can think of something funny on the spot and laugh a little bit I feel less creepy, but sometimes it’s just difficult to do that right then and there.

As for bearing(?) the teeth, a few times I caught myself doing this unintentionally as I get older; I always feel like an idiot afterward because I’ve always known this isn’t the way. It could be due to the fact that I’m (happily) rarely involved in these sort of photos as life goes on.