Anon reflects on a conundrum
Anon reflects on a conundrum
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take a picture of the mirror, dumbass
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Confirmed, fixes the issue
I'm 99% sure it's me noticing flaws because I recognise it's mine but it's very different due to mirroring
Like, damn, my face is slanted as fuck when mirrored...
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Not really, it’s the distance, mirror doubles it. Selfies of most people look horrible, even if flipped, due to the camera’s distortion from the short distance.
Any time I had professional photos taken for work, the photographer stood at least 3 meters (10 feet) away, maybe even more.
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Like, damn, my face is slanted as fuck when mirrored...
Same bruh, same.
\ What my mirrored face looks like to me:
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Ok done.
Now what?
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Short distance to subject and wide angle camera lens makes bad photos
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Not necessarily
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In addition to this (the effects of which are far more pronounced than the 'mirror image' theory btw — flipping a camera shot doesn't tend to make a strong difference after all), a photo is just, well, a snapshot. It can't pick up the subtle movements in expressions that add to your visual personality. If we all went about with a static photo expression on our faces, we'd look weird as fuck.
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You said it better than me.
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Every cellphone camera is objectively terrible at capturing human features
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Helps if you angle the camera down slightly, actually funny story about AI... There was this site a few years ago that would give you a masculine/femanine score based on a selfie, I discovered all it was really checking was the angle of the face because men tend to take photos straight on and women know to take the photo with your face at an angle. (But NEVER an upward angle)
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Ooooooh.
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You're used to seeing your mirror image. You aren't perfectly symmetrical, so your reflection looks slightly different than your image in a camera.
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I remember seeing a study saying the most attractive people had somewhat asymmetrical faces but there's a sweet spot for it. Attractiveness reduces again if the face is too asymmetrical.
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A mirror is a lot easier to use than a camera
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Lmaoa, I remember reading about this.
If I recall correctly, a picture shows how you appear to others whereas the mirror shows you a 'mirrored' image of yourself (e.g., your left side is the reflection's right side).
We are used to seeing our reflection, which then makes pictures of ourselves look strange.
I think selfie cameras intentionally take a mirrored image to avoid this effect. But I've never taken one because I hate looking at myself.
There's a similar phenomenon with hearing ourselves in recordings vs. as we speak.
Edit: as @ch00f@lemmy.world already explained!
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