Gridfan wrote:Drawing eyes and a beard on a piece of paper and putting that around the camera might work, or a wig
You think I might be joking, and I sorta am. But trying to think of the camera as a person and the lens as the eye(s) might work?
Those little tricks work surprisingly well. Back in the day, when I was talking far too quietly on the phones at work, I would imagine that I was speaking to somebody at a distant desk. It naturally forced me to project my voice, which lead to proper volume on the phone. Ditto for the mic, early on.
Whatever mental gymnastics work, go ahead and use them. You don't necessarily *have* to tell people that you've got googly eyes above the camera lens, but if that puts you at ease and keeps you facing the right way, why the hell not? There's a reason the advice of imagining your audience naked still does the rounds. For some people, it really does work. Humans are fun like that.
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