take a picture of the mirror, dumbass
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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...
Like, damn, my face is slanted as fuck when mirrored...
Same bruh, same.
What my mirrored face looks like to me:
Ok done.
Now what?
Short distance to subject and wide angle camera lens makes bad photos
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.
You said it better than me.
Every cellphone camera is objectively terrible at capturing human features
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)
Ooooooh.
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.
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.
Are you sure it said asymmetrical?
I read something on the topic (though, awhile ago now) and it talked about symmetry being attractive, and even gave Denzel Washington as an example because he had a remarkably symmetrical face.
Wud be really interesting if asymmetry is found attractive now!
A mirror is a lot easier to use than a camera
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 @[email protected] already explained!
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