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I agree with this. There's been many photos taken of me over the years but the only ones that ever looked half way decent were those taken by professional photographers with all the right photography equipment and proper lighting.
Photos can never look the same as what we see when we look in a mirror because what we see in mirrors isn't the reality, they show us a reverse image of ourselves.
Generally, any pic of me that came out half way decent are all candid shots. Posed shots are the worst. I just have to have someone shoot a thousand pics of me when I''m not looking and one might be okay.
Yup some people just really know their good angles. I have a cousin like this. She looks amazing in every photo. I know she practices though. She is definitely social media obsessed.
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I can't tell you how relieved I am to have found this thread. I thought I was the only person with this problem. For years I heard comments about how I was not photogenic and I would respond with "Yes, I'm aware" and "I told you so!" I can appreciate Ruth4Truth's strategy, which until 10 or so years ago, has worked:
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Aside from that, I simply don't allow photos to be taken of me. Seriously. I avoid that, especially these days, when everyone's plastering everything all over their FB page, etc. No way! I control the rights to reproducing my image publicly. I don't think that's any different than intellectual property rights, copyright, and the like.
However, nowadays, people simply will not take no for an answer. There is an expectation that there has to be a picture for everything. I refuse and they wait until I'm not looking and then stick their phones in my face and take my picture anyway. I say please don't post that picture online and then they laugh and do it anyway or tell me that "it's just one picture, why does it matter?" or "surely you want one picture with so and so and you will regret it if you don't."
It doesn't help that now I have an illness that greatly affects my outward appearance. I went to a family wedding last year and people I had not seen in a while said they didn't recognize me. And of course they had to take pictures. Lots and lots of pictures.
I'm to the point now where I don't attend social gatherings at all, because saying no to pictures is not an option. Sometimes my workplace "requires" pictures, and I just dash off to the restroom, but that doesn't always work. I wish people could just be respectful of this one simple request, but people don't understand that it's not about them and their pictures.
I swear, I must be either a lot uglier than I think I am, or else the least photogenic person on the planet.
Today a friend posted a group photo, including me, on Facebook and I’m humiliated. I took it down from my page, but it’s still out there in her’s.
I’m not used to thinking of myself as ugly, I know I used to be pretty, although I know the years have not been kind, but I have not looked good in a picture for about 15 years.
I hate the fact that I dont have recent pictures of myself with my kids or grandkids, but I avoid cameras like the plague.
I'm attractive, but I always look horrible in photos. It was a pain when I was online dating, I would take 200 selfies before I could get one that came out okay. Then someone would say "do you have more pics you can send?", lol. It took me 4 hours to get the ones I have now!
I'm attractive, but I always look horrible in photos. It was a pain when I was online dating, I would take 200 selfies before I could get one that came out okay. Then someone would say "do you have more pics you can send?", lol. It took me 4 hours to get the ones I have now!
That would be me, too. I keep trying to get a good picture for FB, but so far, not happy with any.
If I had any guts at all, I would post the picture that made me start this thread. If I were really as ugly as the picture, I think others would shy away, but they don’t. Maybe people respond to me well because, either I make them feel attractive in comparison, or they are extra kind because they feel sorry for me.
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*raises hand as an also non photogenic person*
My best pictures are those when I don't know I'm being photographed. Something about posing makes me tense and it ruins the photo.
Although looking back on some pictures I absolutely didn't like when I was younger, I look at them now and think "wow, I looked pretty good!"
Now that I'm battling health issues, I'm having hubby photograph me more with the family so that they have something to remember me by. I don't care if it looks like crap, this was how I looked when I was playing with them, hugging them and just being grandmom and they were loving me back.
What we perceive to be what we look like doesn't always present itself in those little snapshots of time. Our family, hopefully, will see those pictures and bring up the memory of that moment in time fondly.
I'm somewhere in the middle between photogenic and completely non-photogenic. I look okay in most pics, but I'm pretty sure I look better than most pics portray.
It always frustrates me when someone wants me to be in a picture. If they do the cheese thing and take a picture literally right then and there, I usually look pretty good, but it always turns into a "say cheese! Wait hold on, lemme open the camera app, alright now say che-.... oh shoot it's filming." By that point, it's impossible for whatever facial expression I'm making to not look forced.
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I control the rights to reproducing my image publicly. I don't think that's any different than intellectual property rights, copyright, and the like.
