I just take a pic. I never redo it. Some pics I look wierd in but I don't care.

Quote from: PurpleWolf on March 25, 2018, 09:24:00 AM
Pics like that passport make me think 'what am I doing?' 'who am I trying to fool here?!' I really don't look like a guy. I just look like an ugly woman(?) !

Ok, you're not ugly in any way. I think you have a masculine look but it's not at all ugly. Don't be so hard on yourself. And you're not trying to "fool" anyone. The fact is you're a guy and it is as simple as that. As for what other people see when they look at your picture, I seriously doubt anyone sees someone the same way that person sees themself.

God, that passport pic is destroying my self-esteem xD!
I was almost over it till I checked this thread again and started looking at it again.... 
It's making me feel so so uncomfortable! Like - 'do I really look like this to other people?!!' or something of the sorts 

It really doesn't correspond to the mental image I have of myself as a person!

Quote from: PurpleWolf on March 25, 2018, 09:25:01 AM
Julia, I highly doubt that  ! I highly doubt you are able to look bad in any pic...

You're too sweet Mr.Wolf.😊

Quote from: Julia1996 on March 25, 2018, 09:30:25 AM
Ok, you're not ugly in any way. I think you have a masculine look but it's not at all ugly. Don't be so hard on yourself. And you're not trying to "fool" anyone. The fact is you're a guy and it is as simple as that. As for what other people see when they look at your picture, I seriously doubt anyone sees someone the same way that person sees themself.

Thanks, Julia 
Though you haven't seen that pic xD! And never will!

I'm hoping I will look better in the next one once I'm on T... Maybe I stop looking that cringingly weird.

On the plus side passport and drivers pics are small, everyone looks like a rapist mugshot in them, and nobody pays them much attention except ourselves.

Quote from: Julia1996 on March 25, 2018, 09:31:30 AM
You're too sweet Mr.Wolf.

No, you are 

Quote from: Kylo on March 25, 2018, 09:34:33 AM
On the plus side passport and drivers pics are small, everyone looks like a rapist mugshot in them, and nobody pays them much attention except ourselves.

Rapist mugshot?! lol 

Quote from: Kylo on March 25, 2018, 09:34:33 AM
On the plus side passport and drivers pics are small, everyone looks like a rapist mugshot in them, and nobody pays them much attention except ourselves.

Rapist mugshot!  Lol.😂😂

I don't think I've met anyone who liked their passport photo...


I think the things that I feel uncomfortable about my face are things i usually like on other guys. Like big eyes, and a strong nose. But it's like they look right on other people but not on me.

Quote from: Julia1996 on March 25, 2018, 09:36:45 AM
Rapist mugshot!  Lol.

Haha, Julia you read my mind!

Yeah, well... let's hope I won't have to show that too often. And the people who see it are just gonna check if I'm recognizable (don't want to say 'if I look like in that pic'). It's a hideous pic no denying that  ! But maybe others won't see it that way - just as a boring passport pic like any other.

I've been meaning to go to the Nevada Drivers License place and trade in my Texas one for Nevada.  I have to do it before my birthday as regular licenses are 8 years but 65 and older 4 years.  My picture on the new license, hummmm may prove interesting.

Quote from: Peep on March 25, 2018, 09:43:35 AM
I don't think I've met anyone who liked their passport photo...

As a photographer I can assure you are correct. I usually tell my clients "when you renew in 10 years, you look back at this picture and say: wow I looked good then."

Quote from: epvanbeveren on March 26, 2018, 01:50:03 AM
As a photographer I can assure you are correct. I usually tell my clients "when you renew in 10 years, you look back at this picture and say: wow I looked good then."

Hey that's almost cruel  !

I usually look at old pictures and think "why did i think that haircut was a good idea"

Quote from: PurpleWolf on March 26, 2018, 06:17:24 AM
Hey that's almost cruel  !

Oops didn't think about that one. All my clients are CIS gender.

sorry 

Quote from: epvanbeveren on March 26, 2018, 08:40:08 AM
Oops didn't think about that one. All my clients are CIS gender.

sorry 

Vanity Is a Key to good salesman or saleswomanship

Quote from: epvanbeveren on March 26, 2018, 08:40:08 AM
Oops didn't think about that one. All my clients are CIS gender.

sorry 

Hey didn't mean it that way  ! Just generally - I mean no one wants to get old or worse looking right  ! And to look back at their used-to-be-hideous passport pic and acknowledge, 'well I guess I didn't look that bad in it back then after all' 

Quote from: Peep on March 26, 2018, 06:46:02 AM
I usually look at old pictures and think "why did i think that haircut was a good idea"

Yeah, who doesn't  !

Quote from: PurpleWolf on March 26, 2018, 03:31:54 PM
Yeah, who doesn't  !

Easy for you all!  You have hair