Why do I look different in a picture then I do when looking at myself in a mirror?
I was standing infront of a mirror. Then I took a picture of me in the exact same place, and the pic looked much more different then what I was seeing in the mirror. Anyone know what I am talking about? Just seems like with a pic, a lot more flaws seem to stand out for some reason.
So what are people seeing? The mirror me or the photo me?
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Who knows though...
that's why when you go clothes shopping, the fitting rooms are lit with nice warm tones... so you can pretend you look better than you actually do
It's the same reason that you think you look weird/ugly in home movies, or that your voice sounds really strange in recordings of yourself speaking. I think it's kind of an uncanny valley thing. The image or sound is VERY close to what you hear in your head or see in the mirror, but it's just off by enough that it looks or sounds very flawed.
tl;dr Don't worry about it.
Cameras are obviously single lens and see in 2D which makes your face look a little fatter.
This is basically where the saying "The camera adds ten pounds" comes from.
Satans..... hints.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephoto
- harsh lighting (one of the reasons why lighting is so important in films)
- the 2D camera image flattens what you'd see in a mirror (consequently fattens us too)
- people tend to adjust their stance/posture/expression when looking at themselves in the mirror, so they look their best - you see a photo post-event so you can't go fix that stray hair or tilt your head just a bit further left etc (also known as 'mirror face')
so when you gaze you and look into your own reflections eyes you left eye is looking into the reflections (as you perseve it) left eye. and right is the right. (in short a mirror image) because the image is as you are standing looking back at you. but if you had a photo the same proportions as the mirror. ie if you could clone yourself and stare back at you your left eye would be looking into your clones right eye.
im not doing a very good job of this am i.
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you get used to looking at mirrors because you see them more often
and pull an nutrel expression when you look at them. pictures are not
usedly teh way you perseve yourself.
Simply flipping a picture horizontally won't produce the same image that you see in a mirror. "Edit/flip horizontally" will reverse the X axis, yes, but a mirror preserves the X axis and inverts the Z axis. I've heard people ask, "When I hold up my right arm, why does the person in the mirror hold up their left arm?" The truth is that they don't. When you hold up your right arm, the person in the mirror holds up their Z-inverted right arm, which looks like a left arm.