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Some people look hot in person and not so hot on photos

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I'm now completely sold on the concept of being "photogenic." A friend tried to introduce me to two different guys for a while now. But every time I checked their photo albums on facebook, I'd tell him that they're not my type. They just did not look attractive to me at all on photos. This month I stumbled on both of them at different birthday parties, and I had instant crushes on them! They were very hot! I just couldn't believe that people can look so drastically different on photos than in person. We're used to hearing that someone came out bad on a photo but to look like a different person is something else. I wonder how many of us pass on opportunities especially in "online dating" scene when we don't think a guy is our type based on pics. #-o
 
I think I'm the type who is better looking in person then in pictures. That's why I refuse to take pictures.
 
I agree. Some guys emit some kind of pheromone which makes them attractive when you meet them but it's invisible in the captured two-dimensional image.

But, on the other hand, it's the reverse for other guys.
 
i've been saying this for years. i'm one of them. i look better in person than how i do in my photos. :( some people are the react opposite. they look good in their photos but look blah in person.
 
I'm definitely one of those people lol. I hate taking pictures because I don't look right in most of them. I love what I see in the mirror and people's reactions to me in person lead me to believe a lot of them think I'm hot lol. I get eye raped a lot so I can't be bad looking in person. I wish I could take all kinds of pictures like other people but I just can't.
 
hanzosword said:
I'm definitely one of those people lol. I hate taking pictures because I don't look right in most of them. I love what I see in the mirror and people's reactions to me in person lead me to believe a lot of them think I'm hot lol. I get eye raped a lot so I can't be bad looking in person. I wish I could take all kinds of pictures like other people but I just can't.
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maybe that's because you're eyeraping other people. haha. but naw, i hear you dude. i'm the same way. sometimes, people just look @ me and keep it moving. other times, i have some people actually staring me down or looking @ me like i'm making funny faces or if they're interested in me. :eek: still doesn't change how i feel about myself.
 
I think some people try too hard when they pose for photos, and that ruins the effect. My brother has a perfectly nice smile, but when he smiles for photos, he always looks fake. I'm not quite as bad, but I also think I generally look better in candid photos.
 
My husband looks great in photos and in person. But I look terrible in pictures so I don't let people take any of me. He's always asking me to pose in pictures with him but I seldom do.

I have a friend, a good friend, who looks as sexy as fuck in photos... but he's actually really unattractive in person.
 
LilBit said:
I think some people try too hard when they pose for photos, and that ruins the effect. My brother has a perfectly nice smile, but when he smiles for photos, he always looks fake. I'm not quite as bad, but I also think I generally look better in candid photos.
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That's me. I don't mind people taking candid pictures of me while I'm chatting with friends or whatnot. But they never want to do that. They want a posed photo. They want everybody standing in a row and smiling pleasantly. And I can't do that. The photo is always ruined by me. The photographer says "OK, smile. Lex, smile. No, a REAL smile. No, that's your stupid goofy smile - smile regular. LEX!" Every. Fucking. Time. :) I try to compensate for this by doing something weird in the photo. If everybody's jumping up and down, or screaming, or yelling at their neighbor, you won't notice that I'm not smiling my stupid goofy smile.

I've told about my travails of practicing with a camera, trying to make my smile look pleasant and natural. I finally got one smile to look halfway decent...and it felt as unnatural as any pose as I've ever done.

Lex
 
^I think we're both better suited to silly/goofy posed photos.
 
I never understood why our culture demands that we ALWAYS smile on photos? I come out looking semi-decent with a non smiling expression. But when I'm in group photos and everyone else is smiling with all their 32 teeth showing and I'm the only one not smiling, it looks more awkward too.
 
I understand the point of the posed smiling photo. The posing is so everybody gets into the picture equally. (If you take a picture while everybody's eating at a restaurant, say, some people will probably have their back to the camera.) And the smile indicates "we were having a good time". But I guess my "photo defect" has forced me to come up with different ways to show the same thing. If I'm taking a photo, I'll often move people around into weird positions, and have them do interesting things. So if I'm taking a picture at a restaurant, I'll take a photo of everybody taking a bite of food. Or stealing a bite of food from their neighbor's plate. Or looking aghast at the menu.

And here's the thing. I may do this just to avoid having to get another litany of people asking why I ruined their photo yet again. But at the same time, people love those other photos. They end up on Facebook or somewhere, with comments "Wow, looks like you guys had an amazing time!" And nobody says that when everybody's standing stiffly in a row smiling uncertainly at the camera. :)

Lex
 
I don't look too hott in pictures i look okay i try not to smile just look serious. One of my friends on facebook he looks pretty good in pictures when i saw him in person i almost passed out he was hawt and sexy.
 
I also thoroughly believe in the concept of 'photogenic'. Some people just don't photograph well at all! A friend of mine met this guy on Plenty of Fish and he looks like a total grease ball, but in person he's a stunner. So weird!
 
I am sure I look better in person than in a photo. Same goes for most people.
By what I have seen in online dating photos.... I wouldn't date ANY of them. And I'm sure others would feel that way about me.

Some things are best left to face to face.
 
RaKroma said:
I'm now completely sold on the concept of being "photogenic." A friend tried to introduce me to two different guys for a while now. But every time I checked their photo albums on facebook, I'd tell him that they're not my type. They just did not look attractive to me at all on photos. This month I stumbled on both of them at different birthday parties, and I had instant crushes on them! They were very hot! I just couldn't believe that people can look so drastically different on photos than in person. We're used to hearing that someone came out bad on a photo but to look like a different person is something else. I wonder how many of us pass on opportunities especially in "online dating" scene when we don't think a guy is our type based on pics. #-o
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This is known as the "Drivers License Phenomena". The inverse of this is the "MySpace Perspective".
 
G-Lexington said:
That's me. I don't mind people taking candid pictures of me while I'm chatting with friends or whatnot. But they never want to do that. They want a posed photo. They want everybody standing in a row and smiling pleasantly. And I can't do that. The photo is always ruined by me. The photographer says "OK, smile. Lex, smile. No, a REAL smile. No, that's your stupid goofy smile - smile regular. LEX!" Every. Fucking. Time. :) I try to compensate for this by doing something weird in the photo. If everybody's jumping up and down, or screaming, or yelling at their neighbor, you won't notice that I'm not smiling my stupid goofy smile.

I've told about my travails of practicing with a camera, trying to make my smile look pleasant and natural. I finally got one smile to look halfway decent...and it felt as unnatural as any pose as I've ever done.

Lex
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We're in the same boat. I'm not a "frowny faced" guy by any means, but anytime I try to smile for a photo, it looks so forced and fake.
 
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