Forget SJSB’s photos, Zsofia’s sound much more interesting. 
Hmmm, iampunha, you’re not too un-photogenic yourself
Well I just want to see some photos, whoever’s they are!!
Well as long as they are of cute guys 
heheheheh
I heard once that everybody hates pictures of themself because they’re used to seeing themselves in the mirror, ie in mirror image. Photos look subtly wrong because they’re the reverse of what we think of ourselves as looking like. FWIW, I hate pictures of myself that people tell me actually look like me, yet I like the way I look in the mirror.
I photograph better than I look in person. Unfortunately.
A lot of attractiveness is due to mood, voice, mannerisms, etc, …not static looks. I have been told my looks are okay, but that I have to work on those mannerisms.
I believe that it’s not that I’m not photogenic; it’s just that I know an awful lot of really bad photographers.
I have two children. I think they’re both remarkably pretty, but the older one is a bit more striking in person than the younger one. In photos, however, the older one often looks awful, while the younger one almost always looks really good. I think it’s a skin tone issue. Both my older daughter and me have very pale skin, and it just doesn’t photograph well.
See, you people lack listening skills. Or reading skills, or whatever. Either that, or you think I’m one hell of a liar. 
Trust me. They look like awful sex trade photos of starving Romanian orphanage minors.
Have you ever seen one of those “true direction” mirror setups? It’s amazing - you don’t look like you think you look. You also don’t look like your scary pictures, either. This would be valid if everybody were equally “unphotogenic”, but that’s not the case. It’s not like answering machines where everybody just hates their own voice equally - some people are just acknowledged to photograph better. Normally your friends will tell you “Oh no, that’s a great picture!” My friends tell me “Really, you don’t look like that.”
Now as for your voice on the answering machine, I’ve read that’s beacuse a lot of the sound you hear as you talk is through your own head, which makes you sound far better (as the shower makes you a superior singer). Yes, it’s possible you really do sound like that. <wince>
There are approximately three photos of myself that I will ever send to anyone. The most recent is about two years old. It’s quite depressing.
I do not photograph well at all. I know for a fact that I have only one chin, yet in every picture I have ever taken (save one), there are two chins, right there under my mouth! I have no idea how they got there. I also have very dark circles under my eyes that are horribly magnified in photos, and very little contour or “depth” to my face - this makes almost all photos of me look “flat”.
The one really decent picture I have of myself was indeed taken at Glamour Shots, and if you’ve never done that, you’d be amazed at the amount of makeup they put on you and the very uncomfortable posture they fix you into to take the photos. It was not at all cheap, but it was worth every penny for all the compliments I have received on it. (In fact, the first compliment I ever received on that photo was from a Doper - it was dropzone, who I will love forever for that little bit of validation.)
I used to be pretty photogenic, but I’ve since gotten quite tubby. Which I thought was fine, until my roommate last year showed me a picture she took of me wearing one of my oldest and favouritest shirts, and my gut was, like, EXPLODING out of it.
So embarrassing.
Nah.
If you look at yourself in mirrors that are set at 90-degree angle, you see yourself as others see you.
I’ve done that. It looks odd (as it isn’t the way I’m used to seeing myself). But it isn’t the hideous apparation that stares back at me in photographs.
I have taken two good pictures in my entire life. One is 5 years old now. Chances are, if you’ve seen a picture of me, that’s it. The other was taken when I was 8 months old. I’ve broken down in tears after looking at some pictures (low self esteem and non-photogenicness is a horrible combination… the camera confirms what you secretly think of yourself.) Candids are actually worse than the posed ones - there’s a reason I always know where the cameras are…I’m avoiding it so there are fewer of those horrors floating around.
Cameras hate me. I don’t know why. Just don’t like me at all.
I’m not unphotogenic but when i’m in a photo with my girlfriend, she comes out looking like Jennifer Anniston, i look like Eric Stoltz!!
Not happy jan!!
I am even more fugly on film than I am IRL.
I envy photogenic people, I really do.
My photos are appalling. In real life, people don’t really notice my distorted eyes (at least they don’t claim to) but they are HYPER visible on film. Grrrr.
Yeah, I think in real life I’m actually a pretty good-looking fella; while the ladies apparently have no taste in men, I think I’m handsome as Joseph Cotten. But in photos I always look terrible.
It’s something about my whiskers; I stay clean-shaven, but photos always seem to pick up a shadow that looks as though I’ve got one of those horrible, wispy high-school mustaches. Ick.
The whole thing with the mirror is weird. You practice a pose/smile/whatever and when you actually use it, it looks all funky… but, if you think about it, your mirror image is actually inverted left to right. Touch your right ear with your right hand-- the guy in the mirror’s touching his left ear with his left hand. Thus, if you make the same gestures or expressions you practiced when taking pictures, it comes out looking backwards because of the slight asymmetry of the face. Lots of people don’t identify with pictures of themselves because they’re used to seeing the inverted version, whereas friends (who always see you that same way) inevitably think your pictures are perfect representations.
That said, I’m kinda feelin’ Sunspace’s remark; in the select few pictures of me that I do consider decently accurate, the picture probably does me more justice than I deserve. I posted a few in the photo album of another message board, and then this malicious rumor started going around that I was “hot”…whereas if these people met me in real life, they’d dismiss me in about half a glance. Conversational charm I’ve got, but that’s a bit of a moot point when you can’t manage to talk/think/act like a member of your own sex, much less walk 5 steps without running into something, both of which tend to prevent one from having any encounters in which to use said charm.
Mmmmmmm… starving Romanian orphanage minors. They made it so much easier to wean off the starving Estonian orphanage minors.
I also have a friend who, in the flesh, looks like supermodel material. She’s actually much MUCH prettier than most supermodels but she has the same sort of features (waif figure, cheekbones, big green eyes etc). But she photographs terribly, even in the professional photographs she’s had done. Cameras just hate her for some reason.
I don’t know if cameras treat you badly, but you’re a cutie in person!
Ok, there will be no link to any photos of me! None!
Because if you saw them, I’d have to kill you.