Unflattering photo

I detest having my photo taken too!
Had one taken on a cruise for a special0 birthday, and it was so good,it must have been digitally enhanced! But the photographer said it wasn’t.I’m in my late 60s and there are by my reckoning three decent photos of me my entire life!

I don’t like getting my photo taken either. I think it stems from when I was little and my father who was a keen photographer took ages to actually press the button to take it.

Oh I know how you feel. I always look awful in photos where I’m meant to look at the camera. Dreadful teeth so I can’t smile, usually have my eyes closed or squinting or frowning. We’ve recently had a rare family gathering and I so wanted a picture taken with all my grandchildren, but they are all terrible pictures - the photos of my ex-husband with our grandchildren are all lovely though!

I have lost lots of weight, four stone and at Christmas 2021 I had just started and had lost a stone and was feeling pleased with myself. Then I came across a picture of me with my son and dgd after seeing Santa. My goodness I look like a barrage balloon! I don’t now, but that photo shocked me, I thought at the time I was looking better! Fools paradise.

I have a theory that we don’t really know what we look like. The mirror image is out of date -our brain doesn’t provide a new one everyday but uses the one it stores! Therefore we always look younger and more attractive in the mirror. Only photos show what we really look like !

It's interesting. So if we are on a self enhancing project we should get someone to take loads of photos and go from that.
Then I think do I really care? Perhaps I should just be comfortable and smile!

Scapa1

I don’t like getting my photo taken either. I think it stems from when I was little and my father who was a keen photographer took ages to actually press the button to take it.

That’s how my DH is! He takes so long that my planned face just drops by the time he presses the button. Still, the camera never lies unfortunately.

Biscuitmuncher your daughter doesn't see Jabba the Hut. She sees the mother who loved and nurtured her. The exterior is just a place holder for the inner qualities she cherishes.

I used to look awful, I had hair cut short for work and never photographed well, now with much longer hair, a full mane that frames my face I look much better.
So it was all my own fault

I have in front of me a photograph taken of me holding a much loved doll when I was about 2. It was taken in wartime to send to my DF in India.

On the back my DM has written This is a photo of Dolly. It is not a photo of M0nica Clearly my phobia about having my photograph taken stretches bck deep into my infancy. I was born photophobic.

Bazza I have always thought Kate Moss was rather plain with nobbly knees and I find her face totally unmemorable. I have often puzzled myself trying to work out what it is other people, especially those in the modelling world, find so remarkable about her, other than her sheer ordinariness.

My DM was terrified of the camera. There's a frightened looking photo of her aged 2.
She associated the photographer with the doctor or someone of whom she was scared.

Yesterday I was showing my nearly 3 granddaughter how to take photos with a mobile.

Later on she snuggled up to me and stuck her hand up my jumper. "Granny, do you have a bottom? Can I see it? "

I don't think so!

My sister relishes taking photos and videos of everyone even when she knows they hate it. What makes it worse is she hates being in any photos herself and avoids it like the plague but passively makes fun of others in the photos. My sister has an heart of gold and I would never dream of hurting or embarrassing her by saying this to her face but since the advent of phone cameras a avoid certain situations a lot more which is sad.

JackyB that's so sweet

I never have my photograph taken, I just don't like what I see. The only photographs of my late husband and myself are our wedding photograph and one taken on Capri many moons ago.

Bijou - I agree with everyone at what a wonderful gift your son made and presented to you. I must have taken a lot of work to find a lifetime of pictures.

You are blessed and fortunate. I always love to see your posts here. Keep it up, I look forward to them!
USA Gundy

Lighting is so important and the angle of the camera.

Posting doesn’t come naturally to anyone and it’s a skill that has to be learned… often in front of a mirror!

Here’s a short guide to posing for photos. youtube.com/shorts/C9jhbH1CzDk?si=I99tkDGfgxr6MnUX

Lighting is so important and the angle of the camera.

Posing doesn’t come naturally to anyone and it’s a skill that has to be learned… often in front of a mirror!

Here’s a short guide to posing for photos. youtube.com/shorts/C9jhbH1CzDk?si=I99tkDGfgxr6MnUX