I always look bad in Pictures, You?

Hi there LightninStrike again !! xD I remember you from the toothpaste discussion, gee you make the most interesting topics here on myLot, seriously! Anyways, back on topic, I do look bad in pictures than i do in real life, it is so true. When i was young i looked REALLY bad in photos and just hated my photo being taken, but now that i am older, i look all right in pictures and actually dont mind a photo of me being taken anymore! -D

Well, gone are my days of looking bad in pictures, these days 9 out of 10 of my pictures turn out good. Now, I'm not bragging but I'll tell you like anything else, it takes practice. Well after watching countless episodes and seasons of "America's next top model" I have learned a bit. So the next time my mom asks me "what will you ever learn by watching so much TV?" This would be a good answer to give. Well, the only thing you need to figure out is what your good side is. And the only way you could do that is "trial and error". Well I would suggest, if you have a mobile that has a camera, then get to work, take you pictures when you get dressed to go out, when you wake up before you go to sleep, that way you'd really know what expression is good for you, and what is your good side, should you lean your face to the right or to the left, how much should you smile and all that. It's your phone, delete the ones you don't like, and keep the rest, my phone is filled with my pictures and now I take pretty good pictures even when someone else is taking them. Kinda reminds me of the episode of "Friends" where Chandler makes that weird face for his photos, ha ha, you don't wanna be like that...

My wife is very much like that, I love taking pictures of her and my daughter but because she's so worried about looking bad in the picture she usually forces a smile or grimaces (or flat-out refuses to have a pic taken!). I don't think I look very good in pictures, but for family snaps I just try to relax and be as natural as possible. Nothing looks worse than a fake 'photo smile'.

(lol) sometimes i can appreciate my photos but sometimes i found it ugly espcially if these are stolen shots.(lol)

hii lightninstrike, there is a great saying " beauty lie in the eyes of the beholder".it all depends on our thinking and imagination.i can't say i am beautiful or photogenic but ya i look pretty in photographs.i too had the same problem with me long back.you can't even imagine how much consious i feel about myself,not only infront of camera but in real life too.but then one of my friend cleared my doubts. what really makes us look beautiful is happiness.if we are happy from inside and have positive thoughts, then no matter how ugly we are actually we will appear beautiful to everybody and we can feel it ourself. i had not thought about this concept.but when i heard about it i tried implementing and i found the result amazing.it really works.and onething never underestimate yourself.whatever we are and how we look its the creation of god.so we should never feel bad or embarrased about our appearance.one day it will fade away what will stay forever is a pure heart full of love that can be given to everybody. so i can say i like my pictures and they are beautiful in any way.

with all my modesty I must admit that I don't look bad in pictures... just in some of them... but those are very well hided:)... but with the risk of repeating myself I must say that in general pictures are not telling the truth;)... I keep telling that to myself... i hope that some day I'll understand:P

I always, always look bad in snaps even though I'm quite sure I'm much better in real. I sneak away whenever I can when there's a chance somebody's going to take a shot. There's only one picture of myself I have in which I'm looking fairly nice and I've proudly set it up in my drawing room. At least I have SOMETHING to tell the new people I meet when I grow up that I really wasn't altogether that bad. I guess it's mostly just because of the kind of lightning they throw on you. On photogenic faces, it mostly reflects off well. On mine, it's deflected in all odd directions like from the holes and craters on the moon!

lol i know what u mean, im exactly the same but about 1 out of 10 looks alright and then still if and um about if that 1 looks any good.

I know what you mean. I never like myself in posed picture. But, like you, I have seen the occassional picture that I had no idea was being taken and was okay with the way I looked. I'll bet you are just too hard on yourself though.

Hi LightninStike I take terrible pictures I look so bad in pictures. I tend to look bigger washed out and just plain bad in pictures. My friend on the other hand looks very good in pictures she looks like a different person in a good way in pictures I look like a different person in a bad way. I don't know why.

i think you and me have something in common. I am definitely not photogenic - every picture ive had - especially driver's license, other id cards, even videos - i look completely different to how i look in the mirror. In fact, in videos i look like a criminal hahahaha talk about a mugshot lol!

Sometimes i dont like how i look in the pictures specially in cellphones, but most of the time its good too, i awarded a ms. photogenic in a pageant before during my teenage years.

see for yourself, in my avtar I am the one in the red T-shirt. I hate looking at myself in picutes but what can you do

I usually look ok in pics, but I am very critical of what I look like. Left overs from my former line of work. I hate to have my picture taken though, so that usually makes for crappy pics, LOL.

I guess i am and they call it photogenic.I love the way i look when i am in the picture already.But of course there are times that i dont like the way how i look in the picture.Since i am using digital camera,so i check the photos i have and if i find myself ugly in the picture,nah,i will surely delete it...Hahahaha...

Oh youre not photogenic I guess is what you mean... I dont look pretty because Im not pretty actually but I look like myself when I take picture of myself. I guess you just have to be prepare dutring picture time so that you look fresh and good in the picture. ANd I believe that there are certain pose that we can do that we will look good and feel good when we take picture. Do you have a cellphone with camera? If you have then I guess you just have to picture yourself and do some pose..experiment... so you will find the perfect angle that you want and will look good into you.

I'm not a photogenic person and I have come to expect that my photos will not look so great. I look much better in person I think. I often used to envy those who photograph well, but now I'm much less vain about myself. Many models who photograph very well really aren't that pretty in person so perhaps you have to trade one thing for another.

I never look good in pictures, at least not in my eyes. Ever since I gained weight from my pregnancies I've thought of myself as looking really bloated in photographs.

I sometimes think like that and shun taking pictures, but when I look back at the many hundreds of photos taken with me inside, especially from my holidays, I thought they don't look that bad. In fact, some turn out quite good. At least, I look good in them. Maybe you are too self-conscious when it comes to taking pictures, such that you are not your natural self when posing. Then you end up looking worse than you should normally. Next time someone takes a photo with you inside, make a point to look at the camera and smile a sweet smile. Then you may find that you will end up looking good in the photo. Practise at home by standing in front of the camera and smiling to yourself. That may help.

I almost never look good in photos and it has always been that way. I like to say that I don't translate well into 2 dimensions. In a strange twist one of the best photos of me is in an old passport, I never would have guessed that would happen. Of course, like most people, my driver's license photo is always incredibly terrible.