I've been on a few dates with people with crappily taken photos where I wasn't completely sure what they looked like and it turned out to be a lot worse than I thought. However, I have been on at least 3 dates with women who were way more attractive than their photos. One girl showed up and I thought she was probably about an 8 from her photos, but she wore this red dress that showed a decent amount of cleavage and holy crap, hottest woman I've ever seen in person (not just the boobs, her face was much prettier, perfect jawline, was about 5'11, hair that was naturally extremely blonde). Was my 4th online date I had ever been on and I guess I got a little intimidated and probably wasn't at the top of my game, so needless to say I didn't get another date.
Photos of 1st girl: (had a Masters degree and was fully bilingual as well)
Another girl sent me a great message and I could probably see why, she seemed ok, maybe a 6 (but really smart) and that's being generous from her photos so I had to respond and eventually went out with her. I don't know why she took photos with this awkward looking smile, but she was an 8-8.5 with an incredible body that she didn't show at all in her photos and her face wasn't awkward looking (I guess some just aren't photogenic at all). She did however come across a little anti social (she claimed to be really tired from work) and worse she was a vegetarian. Why she messaged me when I had that stated in my profile I have no idea and wasn't interested in going out again. Perhaps I could have feigned interest better because I wanted that body, but she was extremely skeptical of edating (was her 1st one) and wouldn't even let me walk her 300 metres home just off a really busy street.