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The time/verb form to use when you are talking about an old picture.
If you have an old picture, and you do not smile on it, what do you say? To me it seems natural to say: 'I am not smiling in that picture'. But it is logically strange since you are talking about the past tense. I mean, the picture was taken in the, far, past.
It is about my notebook entry that I wrote about the picture of my exam class. It's 28 years old. :-)
It is about my notebook entry that I wrote about the picture of my exam class. It's 28 years old. :-)
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You always use present continuous for describing an image because you see the action "happening now"... even if it's a 20,000 year old painting! If you swap to past continuous, I think that the picture is not present; ie. the picture itself is also in the past.
It also sounds natural to me to say "I am not smiling in that picture." But if I want to talk about the past I would say, "I was not smiling for that picture." The first sentence is referring to the physical photograph that is present now, the second sentence is referring to the event of capturing the photograph.
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