Usually means: Avoids being photographed; dislikes cameras.
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  1. camera-shy, camera-shy: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Camera-shy, camera-shy: Wordnik
  3. camera-shy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. camera-shy: Wiktionary
  5. camera-shy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. camera-shy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. camera-shy: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. camera-shy: Dictionary.com
  9. camera-shy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Reluctant or resisting to be photographed.

Similar:
cameraless, bashful, gun-shy, backward, headshy, gunshy, self-effacing, photoless, avoidant, call-shy, more...

Opposite:
photogenic, camera-friendly

Types:
introverted, shy, anxious, self-conscious, phobic, avoidant, apprehensive, withdrawn, more...

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Similar:
cameraless, bashful, gun-shy, backward, headshy, gunshy, self-effacing, photoless, avoidant, call-shy, more...

Opposite:
photogenic, camera-friendly

Types:
introverted, shy, anxious, self-conscious, phobic, avoidant, apprehensive, withdrawn, more...



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