Do you look odd in your photos?

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I've seen some aspies look somewhat "not there" or odd in their photos, sometimes adopting odd poses or "looks"such as the following:
http://jan.freedomblogging.com/files/20 ... -smith.jpg
http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/images/portrait_hayes.jpg

Do any of you here look odd in your pictures or would you say you are not photogenic?

Looking odd is a perception. I didn't think that picture looks odd.

I am not photogenic. It's either going to be a strained smile or flat affect.

I have noticed in some of my photos, I have the blank stare on my face, even if I was smiling. That's how it looks to me anyway. Some of my smiles look stupid.

You look like Christopher Lloyd Alla.

I think my "normal" grin makes me look too dopey and naive, so I usually try to pose like I'm in the middle of a joke.

I noticed early on in life that I had a rather blank look in photos compared to others. After some practice I've since memorized a smile that looks rather convincing (to me, at least).

I think that that lost look is what people see when they talk to us. My pictures usually look like I am ashamed of the camera lens as well. Before family pictures I practice looking in the mirror for facial expressions that that don't make me look like a deer in headlights.

Yeah. Even at about 10 years old I either looked angry or blank.
Around High School I stopped trying, and I discontinued smiling in my school pictures. I always look distant now. My ex-boyfriend's mother saw a picture of me in the school yearbook and said I looked like a "Deer caught in a car's headlights".
I don't mind though. I am not photogenic by any means. Heres a photo for you:
http://www.imagecoast.com/images/rachel ... dress3.jpg

If it's a posed photo, I tend to look expressionless, regardless of how I'm feeling. Candid shots tend to come out better. I work a whole lot better behind the camera

Elementary_Physics: you make it work. To say the least.

I don't photograph well at all. If I smile, I never open my mouth, giving more of a smirk (my mom used to call it the "frog smile"), and sometimes I don't even smile. I just can't help it. (I rarely do the mouth-wide-open grin even when not being photographed.) I've always hated getting my picture taken, which is kind of wierd, because I like to take pictures.

I refuse to let people take my picture. All of the candid shots of me are taken when I'm too zoned out to resist photography.. so they are strange and kind of capture the "not from this planet" appearance

Yes, I sometimes take on a posture that is a bit odd, or have that blank stare, although more so when I was younger. I smile a lot in my pictures, but people have often told me that it looks awkward, so I try not to smile more often now.

I never seem to be making the face I thought I was making...