How photogenic are you?

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I look HORRIBLE in most photos. I have to take about 20 to get one good one. And even then, I don't think I look as good in photos as in real life.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    If I'm ready for the picture, I like them. I even like my driver's license photo. If I'm not aware I'm being photographed, I look like poop.
  • adrian_indy
    adrian_indy Posts: 1,444 Member
    I don' think I ever thought about it so I must be the same, unless of course I have been drinking, then one eye starts to droop closed. It's really attractive.
  • goron59
    goron59 Posts: 890 Member
    I'm so not photogenic.
    I think you look great in the pics here !
  • Shausil82
    Shausil82 Posts: 218 Member
    I have the opposite problem. I photograph pretty well, but, when people see me in real life, they are disappointed.
  • FauxNinja
    FauxNinja Posts: 77
    As long as I don't try to force a smile, I'm okay.
  • quara
    quara Posts: 255 Member
    I am lucky to be photogenic, I get told that a lot! I look better in photos than I do in the mirror, though!
  • nerdyandilikeit
    nerdyandilikeit Posts: 2,185 Member
    Being photogenic, in my opinion, is knowing how to fool the camera. Even people who think they're not photogenic do SOMETHING when a camera is shoved in their face besides stand there.

    I did a LOT of self portraits for my photo projects in college because I would want to do crazy things that no one else would. I know how my face looks when I do certain things even if they don't feel like natural poses.

    So, yes. I'm pretty photogenic.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    I'm one of the least photogenic people in the world. To the point where I'm constantly untagging myself in friends facebook photos.

    Maybe when I reach my goal I will feel differently.
  • splackk
    splackk Posts: 163
    I am very very very unphotogenic. Both at my highest and lowest weights I just can't make decent faces. I actually get told "stop doing that with your face" sometimes when people are taking pictures. ...Doing what!? I thought I was just smiling! Eeeeeevery once in a blue moon I'll get a cute pic out, but it's usually out of a stack of 200 and even then it doesn't look much like me in real life.
  • phawley13
    phawley13 Posts: 80 Member
    Every time I look in the mirror I ask myself if people see what I see in the mirror or if they see what comes out in a picture because I think I look way better in the mirror than in most of my pictures, I know this has to do with my weight and I know when I loose more I will feel better about myself, but most people don't say I look any different in pictures so I am afraid of what they are seeing.

    I do have some photo's I look good in, but most I really don't like
  • i_love_vinegar
    i_love_vinegar Posts: 2,092 Member
    i'm not very photogenic..it takes me 50 tries to get ONE pic that looks halfway decent

    I always thought that was normal...o_O Oh shoot...ok so maybe i am not photogenic nor look like myself in photos. New form of vampire...
  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
    Not photogenic - that's why I get professional photos done like my profile pic here
  • looklikeaskeleton
    looklikeaskeleton Posts: 62
    terrible. there is maybe one photo of me that does not look extremely awkward. lol
  • Andythefitfamilyman
    Andythefitfamilyman Posts: 420
    i am about as photogenic as an elephant butt lol
  • HOSED49
    HOSED49 Posts: 642 Member
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    You be the judge, am I photogenic? Lol
  • i_love_vinegar
    i_love_vinegar Posts: 2,092 Member
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    You be the judge, am I photogenic? Lol

    You look AMAZING, but whether or not you are photogenic depends on if you look better or worst in real life XD
  • siabevis
    siabevis Posts: 811
    Very photogenic. Check out my blog and see ;) Hahahaha
  • smc1277
    smc1277 Posts: 239 Member
    Not at all. If I know it is being taken I freeze, random pictures I look wickedly bad. Just bad all the way around!! I would like to say I am better in person, but I can't be the judge of what others think.
  • HOSED49
    HOSED49 Posts: 642 Member
    Well that was taken yesterday, let me check, yep still looks the same
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    I'm not. Look at me I look so wooden!

    Seriously though a good photographer makes the difference.
  • La_Amazona
    La_Amazona Posts: 4,855 Member
    Out of 15 pics, I'll keep maybe 2-3. I think I'm in the middle.. sometimes pictures come out good, sometimes I'm trying too hard, sometimes I'm not trying enough, etc.
  • Huskeryogi
    Huskeryogi Posts: 578 Member
    In the middle. I was really photogenic when I was little, but as an adult I like maybe 1-2 out of every 10 pictures. I'm noticing that I like more pictures as I lose weight so maybe when I hit goal I'll consider myself photogenic again.
  • coatsie79
    coatsie79 Posts: 187 Member
    I always try and stay at the back and push my neck out a bit so the treble chin doesn't show.
    So basically I am photogenic when I look good. I am not photogenic when I look like crap. I think it might be called selective photogenicity. :wink:
  • godroxmysox
    godroxmysox Posts: 1,491 Member
    I think I am very photgenic (how egotistical does that sound) as I get told it a lot. Very annoying though as people expect me to look good in real life, which I don't. x

    ^^^This^^^
  • crisanderson27
    crisanderson27 Posts: 5,343 Member
    I'm the not photogenic type haha!
    But, maybe the -10 kilogram version of me will be photogenic!

    Lies! At least based on your profile picture =D.
    I'm much "better looking" in real life. I think that's because a lot of women find me attractive due to my personality (yes, you can all stop laughing now, thank you...) which doesn't really come across in a static photograph.

    I think 1 out of every 50 photos of myself I see I really like so I keep hold of them for dear life and use them.

    You and me both brother...except I don't have the personality thing going for me in person lol.
  • Huskeryogi
    Huskeryogi Posts: 578 Member
    If I'm ready for the picture, I like them. I even like my driver's license photo. If I'm not aware I'm being photographed, I look like poop.

    I'm the opposite. Most of my favorite pictures are ones I didn't pose for. Sometimes I wish I could have a photographer follow me around on important occasions and not take any posed pictures just snap away as the occasion goes one.
  • hush7hush
    hush7hush Posts: 2,273 Member
    Yeah, I look way better in pictures than in real life. ]:
  • niste_ketlin
    niste_ketlin Posts: 73
    Not photogenic. I look in the mirror and see one thing, but then in a picture I look completely different. Actually though my profile picture I think is a pretty good picture, that looks like, well, me! But I have a problem with not only looking different in pictures than I do to myself, but looking really different in each picture.. It's crazy.
  • craft338
    craft338 Posts: 870 Member
    sometimes i look better in pictures than in real life. people are like, "that's YOU? wow, it doesn't LOOK like you!" lol oh well :ohwell:

    it's like 90% lighting and camera angle LOL
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