How many photos and videos do you have of you dressed?

[Alice Torn]

I have around 15,000 , since 2005. Narcissist? I am afraid so, as an old single.

[Melody A]

I have about 250 all taken within the last year but only a handful are of a decent quality. I've kept the majority of them as a reference to see what works, what doesn't work and where I can improve. It's fun to look at the earlier ones to see how much my style has changed.

[Robin414]

Hmmm, I have a couple as a guy, and like 50 as....well...less discusting ? OMG, I am T...something! I've even posted a few in the out takes thread 😝

[SharonDenise]

I've only been taking selfies of myself for about the past three years. By the way, buy a tripod for selfies as it makes it easier to take pictures. I have many at home pictures and pictures taken of me at various events planned by my support group or another transgender organization. The only one available here is my avatar. I should post others, but being older, I'm never sure how to do these things.

[Samantha981]

I have several hundred but only ~200 are any good. I need to clean up my files! I tend to take several like 20 at a time rapid fire with the intent to find one that is nice, just never get back to deleting. I also take close ups of makeup after a makeover in the hopes of being able to repeat the work later myself. I may do 20 or 30 shots of my eyes or contouring to get different angles , eyes open/closed. Fun to look at later and re-live!! All selfies taken by myself. Hard part is finding a place with good lighting.

[sometimes_miss]

Zero. Zip. Zilch. Zippo. Diddly. Nada. None.

[SHY KIM]

Hi Alice
I destroyed the video years ago as a safe guard (it had a lean towards a XXX flick featuring me and my SO) I STILL REMEBER IT THOUGH:o
As for pics I have a small album from Kims early years (maybe 50 pics) - of which also was almost destroyed - but sound judgment prevailed
I plan to add to it in my middle years once I get things together and present better (a work in progress)
Kim

[Nadine Robles]

A couple hundred pics from which I could narrow down to a couple dozen (im picky with photos), but most of them are NSFW. No videos

[Kate Simmons]

Not that many Alice. Maybe 6,000 or so.:battingeyelashes::)

[audreyinalbany]

only about ten or twelve. I find that actually seeing pictures of me dressed pretty much spoils the illusion. Every time I get to thinking I can blend as a woman all I have to do it look at a couple pictures and it brings me right back to reality

[Sarah Beth]

I don't have many I take them and don't like how I look and delete them

[Georgia_Maine]

Let's see. 6 GB of Gigi photos divided by 2 MB per photo. Thats ... OMG! I am a narcissist! I really must clean out my files!:heehee:

[Alice Torn]

Obviously, I do not have a SO or wife, or I may not have any at all! I find my style has not changes too much, but I went from old 35 MM and 110 cameras, where i spent a fortune on developing, to digitals. I like to look at my old ones at times, and see i have not aged too much Vanity, vanity, all is vanity! Paaaaart of me is a narcissist. Part of me is unselfish, giver.

[Adriana Moretti]

I dont take many photos, although I wish I did take more , I always forget, and I hate stopping to say "Hey can you take a pic for me" then I regret it the next day ...but everey day I say to myself I need to take more pictures and everyday I still never do. In 2015 I took every picture I could find and turned it into 1 quick video like the ending credits of a National Lampoons Movie ...so i guess i have 1 video....thats something else id like to take more of...videos....if i were rich id hire my own personal paparazzi


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Auel17atno

[tifftg]

I have a couple thousand but only less than 100 that I like. Been taking for years, once digital came along it was possible to keep private and inexpensively. I keep them on Flickr but am concerned on whether that great tool may disappear with Yahoo being under pressure

[Tara Rushing]

I have around 30 pics and 0 videos. I take pics with my phone and the terrible ones get deleted and the so-so ones get emailed to my work computer where I hide them in a folder. Wish my ratio of so-so's to terribles would get better.....

[NicoleScott]

For those of us that started out with film photography, with it's cost and privacy concerns, going digital was HUGE. I take a lot to get a few good ones, and keep the good ones in different folders for easier viewing later. I have no qualms about using editing tools - that's what they're for.

[BillieAnneJean]

How the photo thing got going for me.
I did a four day photo shoot at TG Miss in Racine, Wisconsin. It was BLISS. I had only been CDing for just a few months at the time. Having that transformation/photo shoot really got me going at a level that would have taken me many years. Their camera takes a photo every six seconds and you are facing a mirror. So you can alter the pose just slightly to get a better and better photo of the same basic pose. Then there are four or more outfits each day and maybe two makeup looks per day. So I ended up with six THOUSAND photos from those sessions. And of that maybe six hundred are good. And a hundred are beyond my imagination fantastic. Every CDer needs to do this.

And I take fifty to even a hundred photos every time I go OUT. Sometimes they turn out just OK. But with what I learned at TG Miss most of the time, each time I go OUT, I get maybe five great photos of which a couple are fantastic. That's the advantage of digital. Take many shots, some of em are going to be better than others, but maybe, just maybe, you will get one or a few GREAT ones. How to determine which ones ate great? If they make YOU smile, then they are great.

So all in all, over just a bit more than three years CDing I have about........drum roll.............................................. ..................................

Fourteen THOUSAND photos!

Only because of digital.

But remember, when they asked Babe Ruth how he got so many hits, he said it was because he swung so many times.

So of those 14,000 I have around 500 really really fabulous photos.

So wherever you are whatever you are doing, take a lot of photos. And if you choose to perfect your look, use those photos as documentation to f what does and doesn't work for you.

It is.....

SUCH FUN

And for your viewing pleasure may I please submit an example of what practice and luck (mostly) got me?

I do NOT look this good in reality. No really! But once in a while everything clicks and the flash and the smog and the magic result in something that makes me SO HAPPY!

[Saikotsu]

None. Well, that's not entirely true. When I came out to my sister, she asked to see me en femme. So I sent her a pic. It's been deleted locally, but once something is out there on the internet, its out there.

[Jenniferathome]

My question is, why keep so many photos? I understand the taking of photos, I do it myself. I use the most recent photos as a guide for what to work on. But once worked on, it has no more value, so out it goes and the next new one becomes the target to improve upon. How can you even review hundreds, let alone thousands?

Now, I have kept few photos from the very first time I dressed after coming out to my wife about 5 years ago, maybe 4 or 5 total pictures, to remind me of where I started. It's a comedy really. Anything in-between is immaterial any longer.

[BillieAnneJean]

How can anyone review so many pictures?

There is a place nearby that processes string beans. They inspect each and every one by a video camera and a computer. But that conveyor runs maybe a billion beans each season at a rate of thousands a second. How does that computer do it? Easy, one at a time as they go by the scanner. VERY efficient.

That is how I reviewed thousands of pictures. Each day when I get back home I download them from the camera card in to a subdirectory with the date and the event name (ie: 2016 02 04 OUTing or 2016 02 04 IN Meeting). Those subdirectories are in subdirectories labelled OUTings and IN Meetings like our Group runs. Each day when I get home I do the preliminaries and then I go through the photos and delete the bad ones. Then I select the best ones and copy them to a directory that is labelled Favorites. Any time I want to look at some great (to me) photos I just go to the Favorites. Efficient.

So even what seems like a big job can be a small job if done a bit at a time.

Like this weekend. I will be OUT all day tomorrow. I will have maybe a hundred photos to review. It will take me maybe fifteen minutes to do that and put the good ones in my Favorites. Whenever I need a pick me up I just go there an run the slideshow.

As for why to keep so many? Each picture represents a bit of my journey. Each time I get dressed I change one tiny bit of my presentation. Just one and tiny. The photos show what works and what doesn't. I use them as a cook book for how I got here and what doesn't work. And as for the number, each picture is digital. So there is no difference in cost from one to fourteen thousand. And the space on my shelf is the same, because they are all in my hard drive and a backup or two in USB external drives. So they take up almost no room.

With digital there is no significant number any more. One or twenty thousand or fifty thousand. It is just a hard drive.

Pictures of one's self is like a report card of our presentation for those who like that. Not for everyone. Not better. Not worse. No hierarchy. We all have different paths. For those of us who choose, photos are a validation of our personal technique. It is all....

SUCH FUN!

PTTC

[Donna St. Marten]

Geez, I have over 500 posted on Flickr, and that's only a fraction.

[Abbey11]

Not enough :D

[Beverley Sims]

I have less than .01 percent of my total photo collection.

This equates to about a hundred picked out shots.

I like to keep track of them and use them for reference in my progress over the years.

Videos, likewise.

Good for deportment and presentation training.

[Diversity]

None. I don't want to chance my family seeing me dressed en-femme.
Seeing me in the mirror is good enough for me at present.
Di

[Judy-Somthing]

I would say I have about about 80 which some go back 40 years to the Polaroid days.

Looking at them brings back good memories.

The photo I think is the coolest is from 50 years ago. My sister dressed me up and took the first picture of my CD journey.

[Rhonda Jean]

My ex has about a dozen dating back to 1978. No telling who's seen them. I have a couple dozen on my computer that I thought I deleted quite a while ago. I never got anything out of the selfie thing. Love to see photos, but it's just not my thing.

[Alexann]

Very few. I take them with my phone keep them a day or two then delete them.

[karen inside]

none yet...funny story though. My GF and I were returning back from ireland last year, well she always loves taking pics of my posterior with her tablet or phone. I don't care for it. On the flight sitting on either side of me was elder gentleman and older lady (GF & I didn't have seats together). GF was sitting across the asile fighting with her tablet saying it wouldn't work. The other passengers handed it to me, I set it on my lap and unlocked it. Guess who was on the screen bare butt. Don't think the man saw but the lady and i were talking while i was unlocking it. She kept talking and nothing was said. Ya never know!!!

[Andrea Chenowith]

Hundreds of photos, and a handful of videos. I even have one video that I converted from an old VHS tape of an (save your moralizing) excursion with an escort back before I really knew where the crossdressing was going.

[JaytoJillian]

Flickr says 4,100. I have probably deleted 3 times that amount.

[tifftg]

I have to admit, I have admired JaytoJillian's photos for years. Thanks for sharing them you are incredible.

[AllieBellema]

I have dozens and dozens of them. Don't know the exact count though. Always gotta have fun and take photos when I get a chance to dress up!

[CallmeAlice]

Honestly not that much. I just take a handful if any when I dress, and I usually delete them afterwards. With the few I don't I'll sometimes post to Reddit.

[Mayo]

100 to 200, most of them highly NSFW, that I post on an adult image-sharing site with my face blurred out (because it would seriously spoil any illusions :D my avatar pic is from the back for the same reason). I could probably take some half-acceptable ones if I had a decent wardrobe. I'd actually love to do one of those glamour shoots others have talked about, but I don't care to experience the joys of waxing and I rather suspect that my beard would spoil the effect... though I have thought of wearing a veil that covers the lower half of my face... :daydreaming:

[Lily Catherine]

In the hundreds. Most of which were less than satisfactory - only a few make it anywhere. It's nice to see how I progress but as I go along the older photos get thrown out of the window after that. Even then I'd be lying if I denied I was vain.

At this point nothing erotic or explicit, but quite a few were lingerie shots of varying quality. The poses I made didn't seem to be exceedingly suggestive, just natural at best.

[Tracii G]

I don't know never really counted them.

[~Joanne~]

I have quite a few of both, more pictures than videos. I keep them in raw form, (no lighting, crops, or fixes), on a pen drive that is password protected and can destroyed easily if need be. The best of them though are kept in a folder on this PC, the ones I may share or whatever. It's funny this subject came up as I am currently going through them all for my journal.

[S. Lisa Smith]

Probably thousands.

[Crissy Kay]

I must have taken at least a thousand myself, but have only posted a few online.

[Jane G]

Probably more than I think. But far less than appears to be the norm. Maybe a few hundred taken over almost 50 years of dressing most taken since the world went digital, but my favourites are on film. Well I was a lot younger then.

[Ally 2112]

As far as i know 0 i do not even own a camera ,One day i might take a pic and this will be the only site i post it to

[nikkiwindsor]

Dozens with many different outfits and hairstyles...but not too many from clubbing in public...lighting has been dark and pics didn't come out very well

[hiheelsnlipstick1]

The idea of photographing myself didn't occur to me until around 4 years ago..since then, I have probably taken around 3,000 pics .though t hose are only what I've kept. I find it hard not to take some pics every time I dress and hopefully I will find at least a few that make me look very convincing as a woman. I guess that is my motivation for photographing as I find it to be thrilling when I take pics that simply make me look hot!! LOL

[lingerieLiz]

I have maybe 20 most of which were taken by my mother about 15 years ago when I was visiting. My wife had taken some but they were lost many years ago in a fire.

[jenniferinsf]

likely 300 that i update, review and cull regularly....trying to get it down to the 10 best in each group...blouses, skirts, hair, dresses, tops, lingerie, shoes, selfies, swimsuit, shorts, with the wife and kids

[CarlaWestin]

114 GB (123,333,566,464 bytes) 6,542 Files, 234 Folders

According to windows. I'd say easily 5000+ are photos but, at the moment, I only like two of them. Profile and avatar.

[Krisi]

I have hundreds (on a thumb drive, none in print). Not all are good, I take photos to try to improve my presentation and select clothes that look best on me.

I have some from long ago for comparison. And some are "souvenirs" of being out and about town.

[DaniChan]

I have about 1500 pics from the last 10 years or so. There are only a few that I really like, but they all are memories :)

[betty1253]

I have about 2500. They are obviously a mixture of good and not so good, the awful ones get deleted when I import.
It's interesting to view my evolution through the years. The early photos were sort of fetish oriented.
As time went by things like posing, presentation and trying to look comfortable came to the forefront.
Learning to smile was the biggest improvement. Dressing is fun so why not look like your having fun?
Also, I enjoy practicing photo editing techniques on my photos.
Betty

[renae.lake]

I've collected about 550 pics and 50 (NSFW) videos from the past 7 months. I feel like I need to see myself from that second- (third-?) person perspective to really complete the experience, and also to get an idea of what works and what doesn't. Lately, I've been snapping pics for the primary purpose of sharing on Flickr (see link in my profile) - it's been my only way of getting 'out' to see & be seen. I'm hoping my sharing on teh interwebs won't come round too bite me in the arse, but the instant positive feedback is quite a rush.

- Summer

[I Am Paula]

About four pics on Facebook. No videos. If I want to see myself, I have a mirror. What would be the point of saving pics?

[Stephanie47]

Decades ago I had taken some pictures. Decades ago I looked great as a guy and decent as a woman. I took them on an old disc camera. Remember those....film and developing? After a while I threw them out because I did not want anyone to stumble upon them. That's before I had 135 dresses and over 400 slips. Now? I don't take en femme pictures. The eye sees what the mind wants, but, take a picture.....and, then the image looks totally different. If I look that bad as a male, then as a female..I'll stick with the image my mind sees in our full length mirror.....at fifteen feet. I've seen some really nice looking girls on the various sites for posting pictures and I enjoy your links.

[Chelsea B]

I've taken pictures of myself in every outfit I have. I enjoy looking through them when I am unable to dress. It builds the excitement for next time, and keeps the experience vivid.

[victoriamwilliams1]

As of today 67,849 Photos over 500 Videos which over 300 are hidden on youtube since 1999, my photo counter in 2013 was the accurate count of photos.

I did lose about 1500 in a disk crash 2 years in a row

[Nancie64]

Maybe too many. I have had 2 photo shoots in the last 6 years but only have them print 25 or so each time. My SO has a good camera so she takes some when we travel or if I have a makeover. One of my favorites is after I had a makeover at Rory's in Chicago, nice pics with a new wig. Every trip to Vegas includes a makeover with Amy, she does a nice job. Next trip is next month

[Dana P]

Wow....I guess I'm behind..have taken 400 or so, kept around 90-100.....other gurls have THOUSANDS!!

[Alice_2014_B]

I have several thousand pictures and only a few videos.
:)

[LisaJ1]

A lot of photos and some videos all good

[Alice Torn]

Jennifer, Why do some of us have so many? Maybe some of us have been single all our lives, and our lady side is all we have... or, maybe i am a secret HOARDER!LOL!

[ashley_addams76]

I have videos that only I am able to access. I don't want them out and about. Always a risk when you have them of course, but since I don't get to dress with great frequency, I can view at my discretion.

[Audrey34]

Not many. Would love to have more pics taken of myself. Wish I could hire a photographer to take some nice portrait pics. But it's all just wishful thinking right now....

[Samantha_Smile]

270 jpegs in 27 folders (within a folder within a decoy folder, within a folder on a non-OS drive) :D

[Wanttodress]

As soon as I start dressing with more frequency, there will be photos posted here. Hopefully I'll get some positive reactions.

[biannne]

No videos but I take couple of dozen each time i dress.

[Kiersten]

Not to many only keep the ones I like and delete the rest.

[Lyla]

I don't have much, most of them have been posted on here. There is a few girls here that I would love to have access to their archives, especially those that show the evolution into the beautiful women they are.

[Vicky Peters]

I don't have any yet, maybe after my makeup skills improve. Well, I guess its not important to me.

[irene9999]

Probably about 1 or 2 GBs worth of pics and videos

[ClosetED]

Several thousand, but I do have many as full size and also as cropped and lower JPEG quality small size for sharing. Very few video. Kept as password protected zip files or password protected disk images on external media.
Ellen

[Barbara147]

None. I would like to have some, but fear of discovery keeps me from putting any on my camera.

[Laura28]

Oh my a few thousand at least

[Launa]

I have a few pictures I have kept and a shit load of them out there on social media websites. If someone asks for a picture I say yes! Lets do it!

[MeredithG]

I don't have any photos, but have been looking into a boudoir photography shoot. Anyone have suggestions or experience with this ?

[Diane_bbw_tv]

About 3500 now. Just got some new outfits and dresses. And some new shoes and sandals. Now that I have been working on my makeup skills, hope to take a lot more in the next few weeks!! My favorite to take are boudoir photos.

[Madilyn A.]

over a 1000.

[Milly1410]

Not so many for now, but i'm taking as many as i can while trying new dresses.

[TrinaB]

Not enough based on these responses! Can't wait to catch up.

[Karine]

I have got a lot of photos, maybe nearly 2000. When I want to crossdress but i can't, it is cool to look on the good ones.
I also like keeping the bad ones for two reasons : keep in mind my preceding mistakes (clothes, make up), and foremost see my progress.

[kimmy p]

More than I have of me as a male.