Photogenic
By laniekins
@laniekins (4579)
Philippines
July 7, 2010 10:31pm CST
Are you photogenic? Do you look good in photos more than in personal or do you look more pretty in personal more than in photos. I've notice before that I look uglier in photos, I guess the shape of my face is differ from the my real face or maybe my aura is not camera friendly. I trash those ugly pics of mine and I only posted those I think I get a good aura. My latest avatar is the best example of how uglier I look like in camera. The previous pics I had was 2-3 years ago.
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21 responses
@westbird321 (232)
• India
28 Jul 10
I look OK kinda in photo but there is my friend whose photos coming more beautiful and cuter then the real face. Since her skin is fair so may be... But anyway u look good in this picture.
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@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
29 Jul 10
thanks a lot for appreciating my pic. Maybe it depends on the aura and how your project in front of camera.
@oo0kulasa0oo (260)
• Philippines
8 Jul 10
I am photogenic according to people close to me. Maybe I just know how to project and aware of my best angles. Oh my! If I am photogenic, it can mean I'm ugly in person! Hahaha
@oo0kulasa0oo (260)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
Thanks, laniekins. Come to think of it, it's now a lot, lot easier to practice projection of your best angles on camera. Thanks to the ever improving technology. If before, we have to wait days or even weeks for photos to be developed, nowadays it's much different as we can instantly see the outcome on screen. So it's easier, faster and cheaper to practice.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
Yeah, it doesn't mean your ugly, I guess right projection really works and that's what I'm lacking.
@iwrite (5034)
• Singapore
8 Jul 10
laniekins,
If I learnt anything, I know that it is impossible to please a women when it comes to looks, weight, shoes and bags. Not matter how skinny they are, they feel they are fat, not matter how pretty they are, they need to improve on their looks. And no amount of bag or shoe would satisfy them.
If you trust my professional judgement as a man who have admire pretty girls all my life. you look good in the photo. if you look better in real life, then great.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
8 Jul 10
Well then thank you that you appreciate and like my face. I think I look better than that, don't get me wrong I am not being arrogant or what but I look better than that. I have mirror with me when I am taking camera and I am confused when I look better in the mirror or the mirror is lying to me, lol
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@alienstar (5142)
• India
9 Jul 10
I guess you are looking in great in some of your photo's as yous aid and in other photo's you have uploaded you look average.In my case, they say that i am very photogenic when i am not smiling as smiling make sit odd as i look good with simple straight look.BUt i get along well with people i know well and all the time i will be smiling and laughing.So, in photo's i keep simple straight face without smile on my face
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
10 Jul 10
I guess there people like you that looks even better in pics without smiling.
@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
8 Jul 10
Yeah, I can say that am photogenic and I look handsome in my photographs and otherwise. By the you should not be judgmental about yourself, no one is uglier or beautiful, it is our thinking. The Great Shakespeare has also said - "Nothing is good or bad, it is our thinking, which makes it so".
You are pretty and you look beautiful, take my words please.
@lovelyn_medrano (3070)
• Philippines
8 Jul 10
Well I think that is better... At least you are prettier in person... Better than to receive comments like " i thought she is pretty" only on pictures... Well you don't look that bad in your with your avatar anyways...
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
Oh yeah, I hate to hear that, it maybe better to see someone in personal looking good than in picture.
@nangisha (3495)
• Indonesia
28 Jul 10
Hi Laniekins!.
I think I am not photogenic too because my picture usually a little bit difference with me. Sometimes its more ugly or beautifuler depend on the light and the angle. But professional photographers always can make me really beautiful so I think its depend who take my picture .
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
29 Jul 10
I mostly took my own picture and I really look worst. haha, I just need to learn how to project in camera. I guess the cameras don't like me at all.
@mutahharbashir (232)
• Pakistan
8 Jul 10
no i m not a photogenic,
but i m a very good photographer,
my friends always ask me to take photos
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
well that's cool, not all can take good pictures, that's a talent!
@mrscallands22 (2851)
• United States
8 Jul 10
My daughter and I are very photogenic. I take pictures quite often and I love it! At age 15, I was offered a modeling contract by Barbizon, but my mom didn't let me take the opportunity because they said I would be in France within a year... I really wish she would've let me that take opportunity.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
Oh what a shame, opportunity doesn't knock on the same door. You must be really good looking.
@maiaman (97)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
I think you would just have to learn how to pose in front of the camera. I do notice that in my case I have an angle that is not very complimenting. I do however learned that on the other side i really do look good. Have you known people asking to be photographed on their "good side"? Well, that's the case for me and maybe that is also the case for you. It may necessarily a side of your face, probably an angle in which you are photographed. Good luck in finding your best pose!!!
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
The worse is I don't know where angle I am good and where is not, it depends on the camera, background and my mood or is it all about my face.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
I guess in some pictures but to sum up with, I am not most especially when the camera is near. I have a bad projection, wish I have a perfect parts on my face.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
8 Jul 10
I am not photogenic and it makes me very picky. I will go through several shots before finally getting something decent. The camera tends to add things that do not exist like extra weight and a fat nose..not that I don't really have a fat nose but not that badly and it makes me look extremely old which is not a bad thing I guess. Grandmas are cool but I'm only 33. You look great in that avatar btw.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
Yeah, you have to have several shots and pick a good one, isn't that annoying sometimes, they look good in the pic while you look strange? haha,I ask them not to post that pic. Thanks for the compliment.
@sender621 (14893)
• United States
8 Jul 10
I am not one of those people who feels at all photogenic. I look at pictures of myself and i either laugh or criticize. I am just not that happy being the one photographed. I would rather be the photogrspher instead.
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
I am also not good at photographing myself, I would rather be photograph by others I am comfortable with.
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
8 Jul 10
I like photography. I have spent a lot for good camera and video camera also. I would go out for getting best views and travel a lot to get best snaps. Eventhough I am not a professional photographer, I learned everything through internet sites.
You looks so pretty, but unfortunately, I don't remeber your earlier photo, as you changed to the new one. Hever, if you look little down-wards, I mean to say, below the eye level or lower, will get still better photos. Also, take different photos with different angles (differnet degree of angeles) and compare it you and select the best one out of it. I think you can get still better looking photos of your face. You are not at all ugly, and looks so nice even this photo.
Regards,
Thank-s
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
8 Jul 10
I guess I need to use good camera, I only use my mobile phone's camera which has a lower megapixel.
@neleene (55)
• Philippines
8 Jul 10
no am not..that's why i do like to take a picture on others (be the one to hold the cam) so that my face won't be captured...am no beautiful nor ugly but in the pic i could say i don't have the guts to show it off.. =)
it's okey..everybody got their own good angle and bad one..maybe we are not yet able to discover which angle we can appreciate our face on the pic...cheer up.. =)
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
alright, maybe I need to study projection, I feel really shy to have a picture, I don't know how to have a good smile.
@puccagirl (7294)
• Israel
8 Jul 10
No, not at all. I do not know how to pose, and always end up looking rather stiff and weird in pics. I wish I was more photogenic, actually!