What you 'really' look like - reflection vs photo

Wibbs

Plus on top of being backwards and familiar a mirror is a moving image and a photo is a still image(duh:D) which makes a diff. I look much more like me on video even though its not reversed.

Truley

I think part of the reason I can look very weird in pics is that I have a very narrow face with high cheek bones. In bad light a picture will show up all these shadows and contours on my face. I find that people with round faces take much better and consistant pictures. Just a theory I have.

BumbleB

I'm really not that ugly ,my camera just takes ugly photo's.

Rubberlegs

Ah just noticed this thread after posting something similar in another one. I too think on a good mood day I look ok in the mirror but when I see a photo its like OMG I look hideous, lumpy and double chinned:(. But if you think of it a photo is only capturing what you look like for a split second and you dont (hopefully) have that gormless expression or look like that permanently. Thats how I console myself anyhoo. That and there are zero photos of me on display in our house....

iguana

I have a friend who is a nightmare with photos. If you take a photo of her she looks at it on the camera screen and if she doesn't like it, deletes it and makes you take it again. This can go on and on and on.:(

If I see her anywhere near a camera I head off in the other direction. The worst is that while she eventually has a photo of herself that she likes everyone else in the picture has a grimace of a smile and frustration in their eyes because they are getting annoyed with having to be in photo after photo. Then the next day she puts all her good pics up on facebook with her looking great and everybody else looking really awful.

lil'bug

i avoid mirrors and camera's at all cost

Jemmy

I hate my photo being taken rarely ever like a photo of myself, I stay on the other side of the camera on nights out!

BumbleB

iguana wrote: »

. Then the next day she puts all her good pics up on facebook with her looking great and everybody else looking really awful.

Thats funny ,but I think a lot of women are like that ,

Truley

iguana wrote: »

Then the next day she puts all her good pics up on facebook with her looking great and everybody else looking really awful.

Ugh have a friend that does that and I know she does it to be malicious too :mad: That's why I never do that whole facebook tagging thing without people's permission, there's no point really. I hate the thought of having my photos plastered over the internet.

ColaBeDamned

I know someone who'll occasionally 'adjust' her photo in photoshop before putting it on facebook! lol

Dinxminx

Ouch my brain...

They've actually made a true mirror that shows you your real reflection. Creepy..

SugarHigh

Dinxminx wrote: »

Ouch my brain...

They've actually made a true mirror that shows you your real reflection. Creepy..

It's just one mirror at a 90 degree angle to another mirror.

Littleblondehen

I think I have body dysmorphia.....but in the opposite direction!

Instead of looking in the mirror and seeing this big fat person, I look in the mirror and see this Okayish looking not slim but not fat person, then I look at photos and think WTF?? :eek:

:P

SugarHigh

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Do webcam pictures make you look mirror image or normal?? Never mind I just checked, it's mirror image. It would be mad seeing yourself onscreen moving oppositely.. Oh it's too early for this.

It shouldn't be unless you used software settings to change it.

Coriolanus

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Do webcam pictures make you look mirror image or normal?? Never mind I just checked, it's mirror image. It would be mad seeing yourself onscreen moving oppositely.. Oh it's too early for this.

Funny you should mention webcams. I don't mind how I look in them at all, seems to fit my self-image better than a photo.
Guess it's to do with the lighting after all, like another poster said. The flash in the camera fúcks you up.

ToniTuddle

Silverfish wrote: »

The photo.

Unfortunately for me.

The correct way to see your correct reflection is to look at it in a mirror reflected in a mirror. Like the ones in M&S changing rooms.

In a mirror, your reflection is reversed, so when that is viewed in another mirror, its flipped again, and this is what people see when they look at you.

I always wondered about this!!!

On a night out I think I look grand and then photos make me look shocking :eek:

While I look at my other friends in the photos and they look the same to me. But maybe I look the same to my friends

Feicin cameras >.<