If Someone Asks You to Take a Pic of Them, and You’re Bad at It, the Least You Could Do is Say No
Summary
A straphanger shares her frustration with people who take terrible photos when asked. The conversation strikes a nerve with Kareem, who vents about amateur photographers who suddenly think they're Steven Spielberg, crouching down for bizarre angles or somehow getting a finger in the shot. Even worse? The guest recently asked "a very trendy looking woman" to snap a picture at an event, only to discover every single photo captured her mid-sentence with her mouth wide open. It's a missed opportunity. Both agree: if you know you're bad at taking pictures, just say no upfront instead of ruining someone's moment.
Full Transcript
So what's your take? If someone hands you their phone and asks you to take a picture of them, and you know you take horrible pics, the least you could do is say no. 100% agree. The worst thing is when you're—when you're with you, you're with family or you're with a friend and you say, "Yo, can you take a photo of us?" And you give someone on your phone and you go like this, and then the photo has a finger in it, right? Or suddenly they start getting creative like they think they're Steven Spielberg. They going down low like this, like with, or they're shooting high or they're like shooting some weird angle and I'm like, just hold the phone straight, man. Just just take a picture. And then they make you miss an opportunity. It could be a once in a-lifetime opportunity, like a picture with—last night I asked this very trendy looking woman to take a picture. Wait till you see this. So she starts taking pictures with my mouth open and I'm trying to tell her, look at—look at the others. She took every—is with my mouth open.
Oh, that's a bad one. No, this one is good. Oh, don't take the picture. That that's all I'm saying. I like it. I'm I'm 100%. I appreciate that so much.