do pictures tell all?

ok so i went to my works xmas party and when i left the house i felt good about how i looked, yet afterwards i looked at my pictures and BLAH! my face looked chubby and i was like "how could i leave the house lookin so chubby!?" i dunno if it was the angle or what but i immediately deleted it! anyone have any similar situations with pictures???

Absolutely!! Even when I feel ok about my weight I still look fat (puffy) in pictures. It's traumatic for me because I think "is that how I look to other people"?

I think it is true that the camera adds 10 lbs. I try to judge this by looking at how other people I know look in pictures vs reality. Although I do believe that we tend to underestimate our actual size when we look at ourselves in the mirro. Probably a form of self-preservation...haha

lol i totally agree. it's even more annoying when you look in the mirror at home and think you look good and then half way through the day look at a mirror somewhere else and you're like "how did I leave home looking like that?!?".

Camera angles are very, very important! Everyone has their bad shots too! Ugh.

Many studies show that most women tend to overestimate their size in mirrors, that is, see themselves as fatter than they are. I know if I catch sight of myself in a mirror looking slim, my first thought it that it is a distorted mirror. Actually it is a distorted body image. You probably have a better time at parties thinking you look good and I'm sure you looked great. Bad photographs! Enjoy the holidays and all the parties!

I'm the same. I have a really round face so if I'm looking down when the picture is taken I end up with about 5 chins.

I hate photos. If I notice someone take a photo of me I always run up and get them to show me it, so if it's REALLY bad I can delete it immediately. Although this has become somewhat of a game of "lets get a bad photo of her and hide the camera/phone so she can't delete it"...

I am currently about 40lbs over weight, but  when I moved to where I live I was quite thin..a svelte size 10 on a 6 ft frame..not too shabby.  At that time I would happily pose for any picture, no matter what I was wearing or doing.  But I guess it was not to be, because about 5 months after my move i began to gain weight and ended up gaining almost 75 lbs!!!  The first 30lbs the pictures weren't so bad...but at x-mas time last year I kept looking at all the pics and wondering why anyone woud want the"stay puft mashmalow girl"  ( me) there.  I have awesome picyures of me and husband/kids/friends framed around the house and am often surprised when I actually look in the mirror.  The reflection is not what I want of expect.  I miss my jawline, and my cheekbones, and collar bones..i miss not thinking about how I am standing or how my head is positioned in a photo... I miss shopping in regular sized stores and having clothes fit.  These last 45/50 lbs have to go...and we all can do it if we try!!!

i am petrified of snapshots taken of me by others. I become obsessed why the pictures are poorly projected. A sense of paranoia exists within me. I have no idea how others would opinionate well to create a good impression of it, when areas of flabs i have known seem bigger than i look in the mirror. I mean to say that the view of the pictures are worse than when i observe myself in any mirror.

Examining the mags, i see the women are daintily posing their sleek body (well-toned and splendid) and the professional photographers move their camera just about anywhere. Still, the shots look immaculate. I suppose i am deluded into thinking that whatever they (specialised photographers) do can occur in the hands of mediocre shooters. The pictures are modified to erase the 'ugly parts'. That's why i think that if the camera was taken by me, it would not be as that bad. I know which angle would suit me, and co-ordinate it to my style.