RANT WARNING: Senior Hair!

[Ahh!]

No, this is not about it falling out, or turning insiped shades of gray and dishwater. This is about young ladies with hair like this that cannot control it for even as long as a single camera session. And it is not about the senior depicted (she's a doll), or the photographer who had to put up with it (and did just fine), but about an alarming trend I have been observing.

She's not the first. Just a pattern I just recently spotted. Always falling all over the right eye. Which means they have a distorted reality in their left brain. Worse yet, it is set in such a way that in order to see straight, they must lean to their extreme right! Could this result in a medical problem? This is alarming and needs to be studied by the [/Insert government agency here]. Or could it be a insidious plot by [/Insert religious organization here].

OK. Now don't politicize this thread, mention a religion, or demonize some real organization or this thread will be locked or made to disappear! Keep the rules, but have a poke at my observation.

Another disclaimer: I don't normally rant, but this hair thing is becoming annoying.

[RightAngle]

haha. Amen. I'll simply leave it at that.

[J Eddington]

That would be a new thing to add to my suggestion list of what to/not to do when coming for your senior photo.

[bondarnes]

I have found that hot glue will solve this problem quite nicely.

[HeatherLou]

hehe Sorry to hear about your struggles Pete!!!!

Sadly, its one of those things that works in real life but not photography. I think the *over one eye* thing is supposed to be sexy and coy.

[srwatters]

I keep a pair of scissors handy at all times

[Bryan T]

I just woke up, what do you want me to do?!

[brad]

Umm.. it is the style and seniors are all about style. If you make them pull the hair away from their eye in their senior pictures, they aren't going to be as happy with them (been there, done that). If you don't want to shoot them with the hair style they want, then send them to me.

[HotHolly]

Havent teenagers always worn their hair hanging in their face? I was personally too neurotic in HS to have hair hanging in my face, but I recall my friends pulling my bangs over my eyes b/c it was cool then too, ya know, to not see where you are going. lol.

[rockpics]

My mom was always telling me to get my hair out of my eyes. That was in the 70s.
Guess some things don't change.

[ka5txl]

Peter, I learned along time ago that there is no such thing as bad hair anymore!! They be stylin!!They may not know what the style is but they do it anyway If the client's happy don't worry about it just cash the check and maybe offer them one with a them on a magazine cover

[photonewb]

Originally Posted by rockpics

My mom was always telling me to get my hair out of my eyes. That was in the 70s.
Guess some things don't change.

oh say can you see
my eyes, if you can
then my hair's to short


:o

[Ahh!]

Originally Posted by brad

...If you don't want to shoot them with the hair style they want, then send them to me.

Brad, I'll shoot it, if it's money. Sorry. But, I revisited this post today after viewing another post and the photog was critiqued 'except for the hair in her right eye'. So the enlightening has not yet permeated society completely.

Originally Posted by Heatherlou

...iits one of those things that works in real life but not photography. I think the *over one eye* thing is supposed to be sexy and coy.

It never worked for me!

No, I'm talking about ladies who know that they do not want it in their picture. It really was getting to be quite funny by the end of last week. All these ladies, struggling in the 'nonexistent breeze' of a fine studio to the glorious breezes of North Texas, brushing, flipping, and so on, without even being prompted. And, of course, returning their pose, not to the one directed by the photographer, but one meant to over manage their errant lock.

I wonder if the spray used to add tacky to baseball bats would work? I know the pageant contestants use it on their, well, er, uh, whatevers during the swimsuit competition... Really, I know this, not from first-hand experience, more like Dad-hand experience.

[photochic]

Originally Posted by brad

Umm.. it is the style and seniors are all about style. If you make them pull the hair away from their eye in their senior pictures, they aren't going to be as happy with them (been there, done that). If you don't want to shoot them with the hair style they want, then send them to me.

Ditto!!!

Welcome to the world of Lifestyle Photography, a way of living...lol..i so love lifestyle photography gives teens the freedom to be who they want to be without rules.

[toverman]

The look when I was in high school (here in Texas) was for the girls to tease and spray their bangs until they resembled a curly grapefruit-sized ball. Some had the right kind of hair to create a tidal wave of the stuff sticking straight up. I guess that's why most senior pictures in that era (early 1990s) are all vertical.