A little while ago, Laura passed me an interesting article on the expressiveness of one’s face. Unless you are Brad Pitt or one of the symmetrical rarities, one half of your face is generally more expressive than the other and you really don’t notice this distinctiveness until you have a little photographic fun.
First, the real me is on the far right.
The middle ‘me’ is a composite of my two most expressive sides of my face ( I look a little bit like the ‘doctor’ in Voyager) a bit too smiley for me. The far left is a composite of my less emotive side.
My real smile is also a bit different in that it occurs on the right side of my face. Like the Mona Lisa, she smiles on what some people would call the ‘wrong side’ of her face ( that is because Leonardo finished the painting of Mona Lisa looking into a mirror of his own reflection, so his smile was reversed).
Interesting? Anyway, I hope this made you smile!
Roger Freberg