Do you like to have your picture taken ?

[COALPORTER]

I really hate having my photograph taken. It really freaks me out
knowing that others can see it. I'm so shy I don't like to see my photo.
I haven't allowed it in over 20 years. I'm so self concious.
I don't mind looking in the mirror though.

 

[Starry]

I absolutely HATE having my photograph taken! I can take pictures of myself, but I really dislike other people seeing them. I can only look at them if I'm in a particularly good/positive mood. The rest of the time I can't look. (My stomach knots up and I start feeling sick) I hate looking in the mirror too. I won't look into one if anyone else is around to see me looking into it... I can't help thinking that people would wonder why I'd want to look into a mirror, that I'm too ugly, or even that I'm vain. 8O

 

[LittleMissScareAll]

I like taking my own pictures but I dont really like it when other people do, because they never seem to turn out well when other people take my picture. I guess because I feel more comfortable with myself when I'm by myself, I dont know...but I feel using the self-timer & taking my own pictures works best for me.

 

[TAMPA-BAY]

I agree with LittleMissScareAll. I perfer taking my own pic because iam picky about the scenery in the background. I'ts a good thing they invented self timers.

 

[missquiet]

I like taking my own pictures but I dont really like it when other people do, because they never seem to turn out well when other people take my picture.

...yeah same here.

 

[lacnail]

I let anyone who wanted to take my picture do it at the Dinner Party I went to. Maybe I'm starting to get over certain aspects of shyness;p

A lot of people are too critical of their photographs and see only the flaws and not the big picture. A good tip off of this is if a friend thinks it looks good or fine and you think it's the horrific.

 

[eggbe4thechicken]

I absolutely HATE having my photograph taken! I can take pictures of myself, but I really dislike other people seeing them. I can only look at them if I'm in a particularly good/positive mood. The rest of the time I can't look. (My stomach knots up and I start feeling sick) I hate looking in the mirror too. I won't look into one if anyone else is around to see me looking into it... I can't help thinking that people would wonder why I'd want to look into a mirror, that I'm too ugly, or even that I'm vain. 8O

I do this too. in these new music rooms at college, we all walked in to have a look, and there was a huge wall length mirror, and I just glanced at it, and turned around. Everyone in my class was really pretty, and I am not, so I felt as though they would be like, ugh why is she looking in the mirror, does she think she is pretty?
Never have liked having my picture taken. In groups shots I always feel as though i am the ugly one.

 

[Foxglove]

I really despise having my picture taken. The worst is when people sneak and take pictures of you. I find that an extreme invasion of my personal space. My husband has an uncle who likes to do that kind of crap at family gatherings (which I hate anyway). Usually I am a person who never speaks up on my own behalf, but I really made it clear after the last time that I DON'T allow myself to be photographed. Period. No exceptions. I didn't used to be so adamant about it, and when my son was small I even voluntarily posed for pictures with him. But now, it really embarrasses me to see pictures of myself. I think "Oh God, is that how people see me? I look terrible!" It's not that I'm incredibly ugly or obese or whatever. I just don't like the idea anymore of people having that power over me, to be able to look at pictures of me, and possibly make derogatory comments about me. I guess that's weird and paranoid.

 

[**removed**]

I don't like having my photo taken lol. For every good picture there's 10 bad ones where i'm like mid-pose..

 

[teandtoast]

dont like it....can remember even from young age not liking it
my parents could never find pics of me from old holidays cause i would always avoid em lol
never mind

 

[Hope]

i freeze and go into a terror mode infront of any lens.

Much the same here. It's probably my biggest phobia.

The worst nightmare was at work, where departmental administration insisted we line up for mug shots annually - then posted pics on a very public bulletin board, plus more recently on the internet!!

I can (barely) tolerate 'action' shots if I must, but these were terrifying full frontal enlarged face shots. Gawd.

I remember a similar thread ~2yr ago. One poster refused to let her employer photograph her.

 

[Pitrus]

I like the fact of taking the picture until i feel i start to FB

 

[xkiss_me_nowx]

I like taking my own pictures but I dont really like it when other people do, because they never seem to turn out well when other people take my picture. I guess because I feel more comfortable with myself when I'm by myself, I dont know...but I feel using the self-timer & taking my own pictures works best for me.

ditto.

 

[Clog]

I hate having my photo taken with the exception of the annual school photos as mine dont seem SO bad. Any other photos I refuse to have taken though.

I have been putting off having my photo taken for my provisional liscence for so long. It's my birthday next week and I wanted to learn to drive and get organised - but the photos!! :x

 

[ShaNeaNea19]

if i take a photo i will take it 20+ times just to get a good one then i think it looks ugly..haha.

 

[sam_antha86]

i go bright red if i see one of my friends or family get a camera out , i hate it , every weekend i go out with my mates and they always take a camera and they ask me to get in the photo, but im going so red from just seeing the camera i cant do it. they find it amusing, but it gets me down a lot.

 

[lyn]

I have to be in a really good mood to have my picture taken, and after teh fact i can never look at it and often delte it. I just got my braces off and that has helped a bit but the htoguht of someone looking at my picture makes my stomach tieup and i hate extremly upset...

 

[dev]

ugh I hate having my pic taken.... i have an ED as well, and looking at myself in a picture or in the mirror for that matter just compounds the problem - I look so fat and ugly, who would want to look at me?!