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Terminus101 -
While the camera in your phone might not be the most modern, to be honest, I think that the main reasons you are unhappy with your selfies have more to do with how the camera is being used, not its intrinsic qualities, nor what you look like. In fact, most people would say that you are a quite a good looking guy and it's silly to blame how selfies come out on your looks (ie, "I don't photograph well.")
1. In the opinion of many accomplished photographers, the main reason it's difficult to take a good "selfie" headshot is because you have to hold the phone yourself. (a) This forces the camera to be much, much closer than the optimal distance for these types of photos, ie, around 6 feet away. Pro photographers have know this for more than a century, but the current crop of selfie-takers don't have a clue about this. Being so close makes your face look distorted -- features are exaggerated and its overall shape appears much rounder than it really is.
(b) the second reason is that when you hold the phone yourself, people typically place it at an odd angle for head-shot photography - looking up from below and off at an angle. It's like you hired a midget photographer to stand really close to you and take the shot, LOL. There is no way a shot like that will be flattering.
(c) the 3rd reason is that when you hold the phone yourself, your arm being out distorts your whole body, and because you are concentrating on aiming the phone, you have to stare at it, and this makes it seem like you have crazy-killer eyes and your face is frozen, like a mask. LOL.
Quite a bit has been written about this, e.g.,
https://bakerdh.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/face-distortion-is-not-due-to-lens-distortion/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...Proof-lens-difference-pretty-pretty-ugly.html
http://rachaelfosterphoto.com/blog/2014/1/22/how-to-take-better-selfies-angle-and-distance
You really should read these or similar articles before condemning yourself or your camera, LOL.
Bottom line, let someone else (with a bit of knowledge of photography) take a series of photos of you while chatting with you.
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There are two other aspects of the photos you posted that caught my eye, but which you might not be aware of:
2. The lens on your camera appears to have a thin translucent film of sweat or some other smudging over it that lowers the contrast and sharpness of pictures like these. You should clean the lens regularly and carefully (ie, not with the bottom of a dirty t-shirt, LOL).
3. You prefered the photo of you in the car (post #12) to the original one of you in front of the green wall. I don't know this for sure, but my guess is that the original one was take in much lower lighting. This will make the image much more noisy / grainy / soft. In addition, the original one looks like it was taken indoors, so the light that illuminated you in that photo probably bounced off of other surfaces in that room (eg, the other walls, probably green) and imparted a horrible color to you. Your camera tried valiently to adjust for this, but couldn't fully correct for this. In fact, no camera can correct perfectly for such lighting.
In contrast, the light hitting you in the car/driving shot was much, much brighter and bounced off of the neutral gray interior of the car, imparting much less of an odd color cast.
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Bottom line, all future head-shots of you should be taken outside, on a nice day, by someone else who is standing around 6 feet away, and is about your same height.
The best lighting for these would be with the sun hitting a big white wall and you facing that wall. This will give you very good, soft lighting on your face. Unfortunately, it will also mean that your camera lens will likely be hit by direct sunlight which can lower the contrast, so have the person holding the camera/phone use his other hand to shield the lens from direct sunlight hitting it.
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It's next to impossible to realistically correct the photography errors discussed above using Photoshop, but you seem to really want an improved version of your green-wall image. Here's some quick work I did on it. The result obviously is still pretty bad, but maybe it's enough of an improvement for what you need for Kageshi.
Cheers,
Tom M
