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Anon reflects on a conundrum

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • chatroom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Every cellphone camera is objectively terrible at capturing human features

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      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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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    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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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    • jwt@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, I think focal length and lighting are the main culprits:

      Image

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not necessarily

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You said it better than me.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ooooooh.

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  • javasux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    take a picture of the mirror, dumbass

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    • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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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      • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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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      • supercargo@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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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      • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Are you sure it said asymmetrical?

        I read something similar and it talked about symmetry being attractive, and even gave Denzel Washington as an example because he had a remarkably symmetrical face.

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  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This mirrored/asymmetrical stuff is mostly wrong. It can definitely cause an “uncanny” vibe but doesn’t explain why you’re a 7/10 in the mirror and a 3/10 in a photo.

    You look different in the mirror versus photos because of the different focal length, different depth of field, and different angle.

    I look pretty good to my own eye in the mirror but look like an absolute blumpkin in photos. However, you can take a pretty good selfie that looks like what you see in the mirror by placing the camera about 4 feet away from you and at a slightly elevated angle.

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    • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Image

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    • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Distance is 90% of it. Everyone looks better from typical conversation distance, and worse up close.

      Focal length and depth of field only allow you to get good framing at different distances. There is no lens that makes a selfie at 2 feet look as good as a photo from 6 feet.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      i believe that being photogenic is definitely a thing. i don’t know if it’s bone structure that reflects light a certain way, or the stillness vs motion, or just attitude, but there is something about some people that makes them look way better or way worse in photos.

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Exactly. If anon is taking a selfie, the fish-eye effect of phone camera lenses can seriously distort your face. Especially when used up-close.

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    • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      also, it helps quite a bit to look at a point slightly above the camera lens when getting photographed - at least the photos of me became a lot better

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The part of yourself that’s looking good is your vampire descent (everyone’s 1/1000th vampire after all as vampires were landlords that fucked everything that moved back in the 13th century) and that’s not visible on photo.

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I thought it was the opposite.

      Ugly vampire spawn features not visible in mirror, but camera captures it?

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    • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is the most reasonable conclusion, thank you for telling me the truth!

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s probably just an old low resolution mirror. A non’s ugliness is in the fine grain detail that the camera can better pick up

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The amount of people in the comments who don’t immediately know this is because our faces are slightly asymmetrical and we’re used to seeing them in the mirror is concerning.

    Other people get the same effect when they see your face mirrored.

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    • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I knew this, I just disagree completely. Flipping the image doesn’t help, but changing the focal length does. It’s not the mirrored image, it’s the lens distortion

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      • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That too. Cameras have to be further away than a human to emulate what humans would experience at a certain distance.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      so … you could just “flip” photos and make them look good? Why didn’t phone makers recognize this and build this into their apps?? I think you just revolutionized the mobile phone industry.

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      • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They only look good to the person taking a photo. Anyone else thinks you look weird due to that effect.

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I think many used to, but any text in the background became unreadable

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  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A mirror is a lot easier to use than a camera

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  • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lmaoa, I remember reading about this.

    If I remember 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.

    There’s a similar effect with hearing ourselves in recordings vs. as we speak.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The solution is to talk to women in person while you’re a 7 instead of over the internet where you’re a 3

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  • andybytes@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I love eating tofu and beef.

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