I hate it, but I try not to be one of the tittering whiny ninnies about it. Like others have said, I just don’t have a face for pictures. There aren’t enough angles to bounce light interestingly. My eyes, while a very pretty blue, are smaller than I’d prefer (especially when I have on my glasses; nearsided concave curves suck!), and my eyelids, which seem normal enough in reality, are so puffy and heavy in photographs that I look unbelievably stoned all the time. I don’t know if I’m a fast blinker and the camera catches me at quarter mast or what.
I don’t like it, but I don’t whine about it either. My main complaint is when friends take their digital cameras every time we get together and I find 1000 pics of my friends and I in a facebook or myspace album.
Another soft face here. I am very much not photogenic. I’m kind of pretty in person, I think, but you wouldn’t know it to look at most pictures of me. Bleh. So I’d prefer not to be photographed, but I don’t throw a fit about it–I just don’t ever suggest it in the first place.
Am I clothed or naked? :eek: It makes a difference, to the viewers anyway 
Hate hate hate pictures of myself, with very few exceptions. I always look incredibly heavy and some angles are terrible. In reality I know I’m overweight, but it looks so much worse on camera. Also, for some reason when I send the message to my brain to smile nicely, it interprets it as a request to look bizarrely surprised. So, I end up with these posed pictures of me in front of lovely backgrounds, looking like someone just jumped out of a nearby bush to snap a sneaky pic of the local fatso. Not good.
See the sig.
I guess I’ll break the mold here. I love being photographed and video taped!
I think it may be some kind of narcissism, but I’m always very interested in what I look like in pictures or in videos. I like to analyze how I’m standing or smiling or talking, because you don’t usually get a chance to review all of that information during your life.
I mean, just look at all the sentences I’ve started with “I”!
But seriously, don’t you ever get curious how you look when you walk? Whether or not you make silly gestures during conversations? Do you actually look cool when you strike that particular pose?
Before I started taking note of those things, I looked pretty dorky in pictures and videos. Now I’ve got better awareness of how my body works and looks, so it’s not as much of a problem. I’ll even go out on a limb and say that I’ve become “photogenic.”
Hate all pictures of myself and videos - really hate those because I also don’t like the sound my own voice either. If I knew someone who sounded like me I would probably make fun of them to their face. A few pictures aren’t too bad. The bottom line I guess is that I like to think I am handsome with a beautiful voice and I don’t like being reminded just how wrong I am 
My wife also hates to have her picture taken and I know she’s good looking. But every time someone points a camera at her she makes a “don’t take my picture” face so her pictures really are bad. Too bad, she could have been a model, IMO. Instead, all of her pictures look like someone just pulled a gun on her.
When I look at a photo or video of myself, all I see is an enormous collection of flaws and bad qualities.
It was precisely because I was extremely uncomfortable and insecure about how I looked in pics/vids that I started paying attention to them.
It all has to do with how much you like the way you look.
I have no problems being photographed. On the rare occasions I’m in front, rather than behind, a video camera, I strongly prefer being very prepared. Like Sleeps with Butterflies*, I’m not a huge fan of my speaking voice as recorded. (It sounds like my brother.) However, with the right preparation, I can alter my voice to the point where I can stand it.
*: If you haven’t seen pics of Ms. Butterflies, know that is entirely unsurprising she likes to be photographed.