take a picture of the mirror, dumbass
Anon reflects on a conundrum
Submitted 1 month ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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javasux@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 month 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…
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
supercargo@r.nf 1 month ago
ch00f@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
steeznson@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month 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.
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 month 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.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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.
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I thought it was the opposite.
Ugly vampire spawn features not visible in mirror, but camera captures it?
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
This is the most reasonable conclusion, thank you for telling me the truth!
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month 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.
tehmics@lemmy.world 1 month 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
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
That too. Cameras have to be further away than a human to emulate what humans would experience at a certain distance.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
They only look good to the person taking a photo. Anyone else thinks you look weird due to that effect.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I think many used to, but any text in the background became unreadable
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month 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
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A mirror is a lot easier to use than a camera
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month 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.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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
andybytes@programming.dev 1 month ago
I love eating tofu and beef.
chatroom@lemm.ee 1 month ago
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Every cellphone camera is objectively terrible at capturing human features
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month 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)
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
jwt@programming.dev 1 month ago
Yes, I think focal length and lighting are the main culprits:
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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Not necessarily
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You said it better than me.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 month ago
Ooooooh.