I probably have about 20 pictures of me floating around in existence, that were knowingly taken… So with that said, it’s apparent that, no, I do not like being photographed… Not sure what it is, I just don’t like it. Same goes for being in videos - there are no videos with me in them that I know of.
I know the vast majority really enjoy being in photo’s and video’s but some absolutely hate it (like myself)…
What’s your take?
I don’t really care, I’m vain like that. However, I rarely look good in most pictures taken of me.
Absolutely not. I’m probably the most unphotogenic human being alive. While not a good photographer by any stretch, I much prefer to be on the business side of the lens.
There are probably well over 100,000 photos with me as a main figure, and probably several thousand hours of video. So I’m certainly not averse to it, though I don’t really seek it out.
I hate it and I hate every picture of myself that I’ve ever seen except for one, and I lost it in a hard drive crash. It isn’t so much that I mind people taking pictures as I mind posing with a frozen smile on my face, especially while someone fiddles with their camera.
I hate faking a smile and saying through clenched teeth “Just take the damn picture already.” More than a few seconds, and I stop mugging for the camera.
Having said that, I don’t mind stills all that much, but I hate being on video. All I can think to do is make dumb faces.
I don’t like it, and I’m usually behind the camera. But I don’t want to be a ghost, electronically, either, so I make my husband take pictures of me when we’re out and about, for mementos. Pictures in the mountains, at the beach, etc. And I periodically do self-portraits just for fun. But I don’t usually share them.
I don’t much like being photographed. But I think people who actively avoid being photographed are silly and sometimes obnoxious, so I generally co-operate with the picture takers.
I prefer not to view pictures of me.
I hate it. I have a round face and, while I’ve been assured that I don’t look like I fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, it sure looks like it in some of these photos. I think cameras do better with angular faces.
And in videos, my voice sounds like Reba McEntire’s. Yuck.
I run when I see the cameras come out.
I don’t like it. I’ve been told I’m handsome enough times to believe it, but I don’t photograph well. I always look asleep or drunk.
Oh, god no. Unfortunately, my boyfriend runs two businesses - a video production company and a camera store.
He agrees that I take horrible pictures.
Nope, you’re only the least photogenic human being in the Southern Hemisphere. I am the least photogenic human being alive. I think I look terrible in just about every photo or video of me that has ever been made. I think I sound terrible in every video or sound recording of myself I’ve ever heard.
I somehow become even less photogenic when I take off my glasses. I can’t focus without them (unless the photographer was less than one foot from my face), which is why I wear glasses in the first place. The color of my eyes (they’re gray) or something makes it quite obvious that I’m unable to focus. I look either stoned or brain-dead in the resultant photos.
I don’t like having my picture taken, and I’m not very good at faking a smile, either.
I married a non-photogenic man as well. We didn’t get any photos of us from our wedding that we like. Either I look stoned because the $#@%! photographer made me take off my glasses (over my protests), I’m making some kind of a face that is supposed to look like a smile but doesn’t even remotely resemble one, or Mr. Neville’s eyes are closed. I insisted on not having a wedding video, because I hate seeing and hearing myself on video so much.
I wish Jews believed that photographs steal your soul, so I could get out of having my picture taken that way. If I thought I could say “I believe I will lose my soul if you take my picture” with a straight face, I’d probably try it.
Back in my university days, when I was the sports editor of the student newspaper (best damn job of my life!), my desk was situated right next to the photogs’ desk, so whenever the boys came in with a new lens or filter or whatever, I was instantly turned into the subject of their next 5 million shots. I got very used to having a camera stuck three inches from my face while a bunch of photo geeks debated about focal lengths and F-stops. So at this point I’m pretty much immune to cameras. I wouldn’t say I like it, or that a make it my business to jump into frame every time I see a camera, but I certainly don’t mind it, even though I am a long way from being as dreamy as Brad Pitt.
I don’t particularly like being photographed, but I don’t throw a hissyfit about it like some people do. Considering how many pictures I take of people, it’s only fair. (Though I do love it when people people bitch about me taking their picture, but then steal it & use it for their Facebook profile.)
Videotaping freaks me a little because I hate the sound of my own voice, but pictures are always fun. Being a child of the 80s, taking pictures meant having to get them developed and that sucked. Now that it’s digital my friends and I take tons of pictures and I think it’s fun.
My mother noted from the time that I was about two that I would pose whenever a camera came out. Some things don’t change.
I absolutely hate it.
When I see myself in a mirror, I usually think - yeah, I look OK. I could definitely stand to shed some weight. But OK.
For some reason cameras amplify all of my bad features - I look (to me) far heavier, my nose grows by about 50%, and any skin blemishes are magnified to grotesquery.
Hate it; yes, I’m a hypocrite.
I avoid being photographed at all costs. I just don’t like the way I look in pictures. I’ll take self-portraits in a reflection or with a camera glued to my face sometimes, but that’s about it. If people insist on taking a picture of me, I’ve been known to jump up and down and flail my arms so that I come out blurry.
Possibly because the face that you see in a mirror and are most familiar with is not the same face you see in a photo of yourself. Your mirror image is reversed, so unless your face has near perfect bilateral symmetry, like some movie stars, a photo of yourself won’t look as familiar to you and may even be a bit unsettling. (At least that’s what I’ve been told by a professional photographer friend of mine. I’m not sure how valid it is).
I photograph terribly and I hate being in photos. That said, I’m living in a photo-centric culture and people LOVE taking pictures of me, the freaky foreigner. As I walk down the street, people reach for the cameras. I have to stop my students from taking pictures of me in class, and many days my office hours devolve into photo sessions.
I’ve gotten really good at my fake smile.