good eye contact w/ camera as a kid?

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did anyone make good eye contact with the camera as a kid? I looked through mine and in some I did but others non at all



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i say i did pretty OK.

me age 5



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me age 6

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I did most of the time, though it didn't feel natural.

thanks ASdogGeek, they be cool if other posters post their pictures too.

I did manage to make eye contact in pictures as a child. I do not know if it was good eye contact though... it was rather forced and I always ended up looking like this bug eyed psychopath. Heh. I have one lying around in a trunk somewhere from a holiday at my maternal grandmother's house... I have no idea how to get the photo onto my laptop or I would. It's funny as all get out.

[quote="dossa"]I did manage to make eye contact in pictures as a child. I do not know if it was good eye contact though... it was rather forced and I always ended up looking like this bug eyed psychopath. Heh. I have one lying around in a trunk somewhere from a holiday at my maternal grandmother's house... I have no idea how to get the photo onto my laptop or I would. It's funny as all get out.[/quote

I used a scanner but places like CVS will for a small fee let you put them on a cd

you cant really tell just by looking at photos in retrospect tho. in portraits, the photographer will usually tell you where to look and its not always at the camera; they will also delay taking the shot until you are looking where they want you to. in candid shots, the whole point is to get the action that is happening without the focus being on the camera.

my 4 yr old aspie is a ham and loves to have his picture taken. he will look right at the camera and gives the cheesiest smile. the problem with taking it tho is that as soon as the camera comes out, he will run over and get within inches of the lens. i end up most of the time getting pictures of just his nose.

I look horrible in all my baby/kid pictures...bad eye-contact, weird facial expressions etc. I hate being photographed.

One of the first thing I did after being diagnosed was to look trough our photo album. At this time I was severely depressed, and my response upon looking trough my pictures just made things worse. For one it made me realize how unhappy I was - I did not smile on most of the pictures and when I did it looked
'forced'. Also it made me realize how lonely I really am and convinced me that I am indeed on the autistic spectrum. Not looking into camera got a whole new meaning as I went trough my pictures.
I usually seemed unaware or sometimes bothered by the presence of a camera. Even more fascinating is the pictures I took myself (as a child). 90% of them are of bugs, objects or landscape - not of my friends or family. At age 3-5 I would arrange all my toys and take pictures (5 is when my camera broke). Also I've probably taken less than 10 pictures of myself trough my 19 years on this planet.

I sometimes looked at the camera and sometimes didn't. Although it's also hard to tell because my mother was an excellent photographer and good at capturing the exact right moment when I was looking wherever with whatever expression. So I don't know how much was me and how much was her.

Eye contact w/camera has always been an issue for me. I think I am looking at the camera but when they take the pic it shows me looking elsewhere.
It gets worse if I am forced to pose especially if the posing bit lasts for a while.
I am alright if u say "Look over here" and quickly take a pic.

In some of the pictures as a child I am looking right at the camera but I think that was because it was taken just at the right moment.

I hate it when people try to deny that you have aspergers because "you have good eye contact with the camera". WTF? Camera's don't have eyes!! !! ! They have a lens, sure, but that's not a human eye. When they're on a tripod or a solid surface, they stay still and people tell everyone (not just me) to look at the camera when they want a group shot or a portrait. Therefore I know when to look. Eyes seem to move all the time (which I now know that is because the person is trying to look at both eyes), they blink a lot more than the shutter of a camera and cameras don't try to communicate with you and don't try to give "signals". I have to listen to somebody and remember to periodically look away then look back at the person while also trying to read what their faces are saying and if it's consistent with what they are vocally saying. As you allmay know, it's f*****g exhausting. A camera is simply a device that takes images, so all I have to do is look nice, look in the general direction of the lens and allow the photographer to take the photo.

Sorry, I've had people try to deny how difficult it was for me to learn eye contact just because in a few photographs, I was told to look into the lens (or at least the body of the camera, which I normally look at anyway). I mean, since when did "lacks eye contact" mean "eyes are always darting everywhere and not able to focus on a single object"? Nice pictures, though

In my childhood photographs (which I'm not comfortable with posting, sorry) I do this really weird smile that looks more like I'm trying to bare my teeth in a threatening way. I really thought I was doing a nice smile at the time....I think I stopped doing the manic Joker smile when I was......11? 12? something like that.

A little unrelated: I don't like photographs where everyone is forced to look at the lens. It's as if the photographer wanted me to be constantly stalked by the people in the photograph. I like photography that is more like a window into somebodies life (where the subject is more interested in the world inside the frame and not staring at me).

i would love to see a childhood video of me that mght be a better eye contact indacator