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Anon reflects on a conundrum
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take a picture of the mirror, dumbass
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...
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.
Aw, does this mean that spy satellites exist to create the sexiest possible pictures of everyone on earth? Thank you Big Brother
does ... does that mean that people would look weird if you creep very close to them irl too?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Just take a picture of the mirror bro
Yeah show it what it's like to be ridiculed
A mirror is a lot easier to use than a camera
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.
This is the most reasonable conclusion, thank you for telling me the truth!
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.
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
That too. Cameras have to be further away than a human to emulate what humans would experience at a certain distance.
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.
They only look good to the person taking a photo. Anyone else thinks you look weird due to that effect.
I think many used to, but any text in the background became unreadable
The solution is to talk to women in person while you're a 7 instead of over the internet where you're a 3
It's probably just an old low resolution mirror. Anon's ugliness is in the fine grain detail that the camera can better pick up
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this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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