Being photogenic a real thing or myth? unphotogenic or just ugly and over confident?

[Anonymous]

I´ve been called good looking and hot by some strangers, 2 of my friends GF´s, family and get quite a good respons from girls at clubs, parties and got approached a few times. with all that being said, i just HATE the way i look in photos. if its a selfie that i take and can control and see what face i make then im happy with it but whenever someone takes a pic of me i just want to shoot myself. if i look in the mirror, i get confidence and like what i see but photos is a whole another thing. when friends look at it they say that i look good in photos but i just hate 9 out 10 pictures taken of me. if i look in the mirror, i see my self as a good looking guy (not brad pitt but OK) but after 1 picture i lose confidence and question my face. am i unphotogenic if it even is real or just THINK that im good looking and wrong?
by the way i am quite confident guy but lose myself after seeing myself in photos.

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine, she's beautiful, looks like shit in photos. Another friend and i aren't all that and look stunning in photos.
Sometimes, I look at my friends and think they all look really nice so I'd like a photo, I take the photo and they all look like crap.
I think it depends on how photogenic you are, the lighting and the camera. I take much better photos with certain lighting and certain cameras.

[Belleza2]

oh I hate pictures, I look completely the opposite of what I really look like which is why my avatar is the girl holding an umbrella - really that picture is ridiculous at some point but I for some odd reason have a lazy eye and its as if my face is not my face - I do not know how to describe it but I do not look like me, you really have to look at me in person in order to see me...

[sailaway]

Yeah there are people who are more photogenic than others, it depends on lighting and camera angle etc... but usually we pick out the blemishes way more than others when looking at ourselves and it's got something to do with photos being 2D while real life is 3D so it can be different.

[ironeddie]

I hate photos of myself. I am not photogenic. I avoid cameras at all cost. Since the early 90's there has only been one photo of me, that wasn't for a D. L. or some form of I. D.

Mind you, that 1 photo of me was one of the best I've ever seen

[Anonymous]

photogenic is a real thing. some peoples faces just light up in photographs. the camera loves them as photographers say.