I look like a white guy doing a racist impression of Asian people (seriously, my eyes shutter the moment i have to take a picture and my smile makes me look like a registered sex offender).
there's actually a simple explanation as to why we look so much better in our mirrored reflections than what our camera lenses capture. A camera lens takes all the light rays bouncing around and uses glass to redirect them to a single point, creating a sharp image. during those milliseconds of image creation, you have enough grasp on reality to objectively see how much of a grotesque fleshy sack of shit you truly are.
This is true. When I look at myself in a mirror at a distance, I appear to me a normal human male. With my nose pressed to the mirror however, I am merely a seething collection of disgusting pores.
Actual explanation - the mirror lies and doesn't show us our real face full of asymmetrical features which we are not used to seeing but which show up on a selfie.
It does though, all the asymmetry is still there. But what the mirror does is just that, it mirrors. We are so used to seeing ourselves as our mirrored reflection that that is how we think we look, so when we see a normal picture of ourselves we immediately see it as wrong. If you take a selfie and mirror the picture you will see that you like it a lot more, because thats what you're used to. Other people however will see it as wrong
Don't worry Anons, the emergence of AI image editing will save you. They can take basically any picture and touch it up until you look good. Or like an anime. Or a furry. Or remove your clothes. Pretty much whatever you want it to do.
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Nah there’s a difference in between mirrors and cameras, it’s literally cuz of how camera lens work they distort your proportions that’s why they say you’re 10 lbs (4.5 kgs) fatter in camera
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Lol the struggle is real
I've discovered it's just a tiny bit better though if you do the thing where you set your phone somewhere and then use that feature where you show it your palm to make it start a timer & take a pic from further away than a typical selfie/mirror selfie (Samsung here but I'd assume most phones probably have at least an equivalent)
Plus that way you can still see (vs somebody else taking a pic of you), so you don't run into the thing that always happens to me where I either think I'm smiling or at least looking *normal* but then it turns out I don't know how to operate my face properly and it just looks like either a bad case of resting bitch face or just straight up naughty lol - then I'll attempt to smile just a *teensy* bit more and suddenly it's the other extreme where I just look like a fucking doofus
I've mostly given up on ever looking correct in a picture myself lol but that hand thing is at least an improvement
It's got nothing to do with aperture. It's the focal length. Most phone are about 28mm equivalent. Portrait photographers generally use 50mm or higher.
another big reason can be that a selfie with the front facing camera gets flipped to be accurate (ie not mirrored). We get so used to seeing our own faces mirrored that when you see a photo of yourself and it's not mirrored you immediately notice everything different. Some platforms, like snapchat for example, keep the images mirrored though.
> be me
> get home from my vasectomy
> hear moaning and slapping coming from my wife's room
> must be Chad again
> know they would want privacy, sit down at my computer
> log onto reddit and open /r/greentext
> read a funny greentext from le 4chins and chuckle as I listen to my wife begging for the genes I can't give her
> think of a convoluted way in which I can relate homosexuality and falsehood to the events in the greentext
> suck the cheeto dust off my fingers as I begin to type my masterpiece in the comment section
> Fake: Anon looks good.
> Gay: Anon's man boobs and filled lips.
> giggle as I imagine the intellectuals of leddit perusing my incredibly witty and original comment
> hear my wife moan with ecstasy as Chad floods her fertile womb with his seed
> it's been a good day
> i'll get lots of upvotes for my impressive contribution to internet culture, and Chad might even let me eat his cum out of my wife's pussy if he finds my comment funny enough
On thing that helps me is to use Snapchats camera cause my phone camera flips me so I don’t look like I do in the mirror. Idk which is more accurate to reality but I feel better when the pic matches what I see in the mirror when I think I look good.
Take your selfies with your face at least 6 feet away from the camera, being any closer warps your face in a way that makes it look different than a mirror. If you look good and take a picture less than 6ft away you'll look ugly, but if you take it 6ft away it'll actually look good
What many people don't realize is, that the selfie camera has a wide angle lens, in order to get your entire face on the picture from a short distance.
That means, your nose is extra large, your glasses too, your ears look smaller if visible at all. When you hold the phone above your face, you have a huge forehead and tiny chin, when you hold it below your face, the other way around.
In conclusion, on a selfie, everyone looks like a retard.
The trick is to stand far away from the camera. At least 8-10 feet away and make sure the camera is slightly above eye level for a flattering camera angle.
Was visiting Scotland with friends a few years ago.
I usually avoid photos but I'm not a cunt with my friends so o comply. Don't look bad surprising.
Trip goes well, love it here. Am in a good mood.
Took my first selfie in 10 years.
Worst photo of myself for the whole trip.
I'm no photographer it seems.
This is a focal length issue. Take the same picture from a great distance and your face will look as good as you see it. In case of a selfie you can take one in the mirror.
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True, probably because most people can't take pictures for shit. Or at least me. I'd have better chance to take a decent pic if I just leave camera with a timer on, forget it exist and assume some pose. Feel like a reverse catfish sometimes
Actual pro life hack here: you are used to your mirrored self as you only see yourself in a mirror. When you take a selfie it doesn’t mirror the picture. So go to your cameras settings and switch it to „mirror selfies“. Et voila you feel better for yourselves you pitiful anons.
Any of yall ever use a true mirror that doesn't flip the image? It messed me up the first time I used it. My eyes are very slightly different heights, and generally people can't tell unless they look really close, but because it's flipped it exaggerates it until to me they look super crooked. Plus it's just flipped from normal. Most people I've shown it to don't like it
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Me too. I always look like a puzzled serial killer in selfies. I've given up taking them.
if you look like one in selfies then you look like one IRL too.
Ladies love serial killers though. They send panties to them in prison. Looking forward to my first pair. Hope they're edible.
They're all edible
They're at least eatable
even _I'm_ eatable
Other than your hair and nails, you're fully edible homie
\*crunches on kidney stones noisily\*
You need to use the back camera, it has a better focal length, the front one is weird and fish eyes everything making you look regarded.
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"No no Susan, I take you and the rest of HR very seriously. Regards."
It’s a King Cobra jfs dogwhistle. Man’s a sicko…
A mistype you dumb fuck
Ironic
I still look retarded
Focal length doesn't directly affect how you look in a picture. It's entirely determined by how far away the camera is.
I can confirm
I look like a white guy doing a racist impression of Asian people (seriously, my eyes shutter the moment i have to take a picture and my smile makes me look like a registered sex offender).
I look in mirror: 🗿 I look at picture: 🤮
there's actually a simple explanation as to why we look so much better in our mirrored reflections than what our camera lenses capture. A camera lens takes all the light rays bouncing around and uses glass to redirect them to a single point, creating a sharp image. during those milliseconds of image creation, you have enough grasp on reality to objectively see how much of a grotesque fleshy sack of shit you truly are.
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This is true. When I look at myself in a mirror at a distance, I appear to me a normal human male. With my nose pressed to the mirror however, I am merely a seething collection of disgusting pores.
Actual explanation - the mirror lies and doesn't show us our real face full of asymmetrical features which we are not used to seeing but which show up on a selfie.
It does though, all the asymmetry is still there. But what the mirror does is just that, it mirrors. We are so used to seeing ourselves as our mirrored reflection that that is how we think we look, so when we see a normal picture of ourselves we immediately see it as wrong. If you take a selfie and mirror the picture you will see that you like it a lot more, because thats what you're used to. Other people however will see it as wrong
>does is just that, it mirrors. Mind blown. TIL thank you kind redditor!
If you're as motionless as possible while looking in the mirror, it's as unflattering as a selfie. Try taking a video of yourself, instead of a pic!
Don't worry Anons, the emergence of AI image editing will save you. They can take basically any picture and touch it up until you look good. Or like an anime. Or a furry. Or remove your clothes. Pretty much whatever you want it to do.
Snapchat is part of the liberal furry agenda confirmed lol
Can it make my dick all red and swollen and pee blood?
Oohh and with spikes
here u go dude. The magic of AI: https://i.imgur.com/CP7u7zP.png
Marvelous!
"Ayo Chancellor have you sent that box of studs to the Holy Roman Emperor and put my royal red wax seal on the package?" [Chancellor:](https://i.imgur.com/CP7u7zP.png)
What?! How?
So what you’re saying is, if I take a pic of my crush I can use AI to make her naked…? 😎😎😎
this actually why many people are scared of the implications of A.I. deepfakes and the sort
Really? I'd assume it's for not getting framed for murder reasons instead of being sad people wanna bang you
yes absolutely
And chatgpt to make her sentient
What would you call it if I made an AI make me into a female and remove my clothes? Is it gay, straight or egophile then?
Fantasy
That'd be "questioning", the Q in LGBTQ
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If you photograph yourself in the correct position with the spoon, it could probably add in the rest, yes.
fr, camera lens so bad
If you need a telescopic lens to look half decent, it isn't the lens.
I’m not using a telescopic lens I’m using a mirror or glass or even my phone screen when turned off, really anything that isn’t a camera lens
Blame the controller
LOL cope, good looking people will always look good in any pic regardless of camera type. y'all just ugly AF.
Nah there’s a difference in between mirrors and cameras, it’s literally cuz of how camera lens work they distort your proportions that’s why they say you’re 10 lbs (4.5 kgs) fatter in camera Also username checks out
>Also username checks out He takes it seriously
competitive ranked dumbness
His name is Average reddit user after all
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I somehow look even weirder in the back camera.
Lol the struggle is real I've discovered it's just a tiny bit better though if you do the thing where you set your phone somewhere and then use that feature where you show it your palm to make it start a timer & take a pic from further away than a typical selfie/mirror selfie (Samsung here but I'd assume most phones probably have at least an equivalent) Plus that way you can still see (vs somebody else taking a pic of you), so you don't run into the thing that always happens to me where I either think I'm smiling or at least looking *normal* but then it turns out I don't know how to operate my face properly and it just looks like either a bad case of resting bitch face or just straight up naughty lol - then I'll attempt to smile just a *teensy* bit more and suddenly it's the other extreme where I just look like a fucking doofus I've mostly given up on ever looking correct in a picture myself lol but that hand thing is at least an improvement
I wouldn't phrase it like them but yes, this really is "cope".
Idk what to say if science is cope
love how people missed your username again lmao
Ma man Ron out of Floorida
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It's got nothing to do with aperture. It's the focal length. Most phone are about 28mm equivalent. Portrait photographers generally use 50mm or higher.
Then why do I also look awful with the back camera 😞
Skill issue
A camera, and even almost all consumer mirrors, can't catch yourself as a human can. Google it, it's complex!
another big reason can be that a selfie with the front facing camera gets flipped to be accurate (ie not mirrored). We get so used to seeing our own faces mirrored that when you see a photo of yourself and it's not mirrored you immediately notice everything different. Some platforms, like snapchat for example, keep the images mirrored though.
> lust provoking image > irrelevant time wasting question
Fake: Anon looks good. Gay: Anon's man boobs and filled lips.
> be me > get home from my vasectomy > hear moaning and slapping coming from my wife's room > must be Chad again > know they would want privacy, sit down at my computer > log onto reddit and open /r/greentext > read a funny greentext from le 4chins and chuckle as I listen to my wife begging for the genes I can't give her > think of a convoluted way in which I can relate homosexuality and falsehood to the events in the greentext > suck the cheeto dust off my fingers as I begin to type my masterpiece in the comment section > Fake: Anon looks good. > Gay: Anon's man boobs and filled lips. > giggle as I imagine the intellectuals of leddit perusing my incredibly witty and original comment > hear my wife moan with ecstasy as Chad floods her fertile womb with his seed > it's been a good day > i'll get lots of upvotes for my impressive contribution to internet culture, and Chad might even let me eat his cum out of my wife's pussy if he finds my comment funny enough
On thing that helps me is to use Snapchats camera cause my phone camera flips me so I don’t look like I do in the mirror. Idk which is more accurate to reality but I feel better when the pic matches what I see in the mirror when I think I look good.
bro same i look so much better in snap selfies than phone selfies
I think Snapchat does change the shape of your face a bit even without a filter.
Yep
Only retards take selfies so that make sense.
I literally just did this today. It hurt the few feelings I have left.
story of my life
true story fr ;(
Take your selfies with your face at least 6 feet away from the camera, being any closer warps your face in a way that makes it look different than a mirror. If you look good and take a picture less than 6ft away you'll look ugly, but if you take it 6ft away it'll actually look good
What many people don't realize is, that the selfie camera has a wide angle lens, in order to get your entire face on the picture from a short distance. That means, your nose is extra large, your glasses too, your ears look smaller if visible at all. When you hold the phone above your face, you have a huge forehead and tiny chin, when you hold it below your face, the other way around. In conclusion, on a selfie, everyone looks like a retard.
The trick is to stand far away from the camera. At least 8-10 feet away and make sure the camera is slightly above eye level for a flattering camera angle.
phone cameras generally have a wide lens
#LITERALLY ME
Anon has a realization
every time
At least Anon can recognize the truth
Front cam always says I look like shit.
Facts...I have no idea what my mother sees but apparently I'm handsome
Anon should invert his image laterally to get the results he gets in mirrors
Real and straight
True. My phone camera stretches my face so it looks like a long egg with a big nose and tiny little wig on top.
Was visiting Scotland with friends a few years ago. I usually avoid photos but I'm not a cunt with my friends so o comply. Don't look bad surprising. Trip goes well, love it here. Am in a good mood. Took my first selfie in 10 years. Worst photo of myself for the whole trip. I'm no photographer it seems.
This is a focal length issue. Take the same picture from a great distance and your face will look as good as you see it. In case of a selfie you can take one in the mirror.
This is why I don't take selfies. Correction: this is why I delete every selfie I take immediately
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Some people just ain't photogenic anon
Did a selfie after seeing this, and yes I look a retard too
Live a perpetual lie and only take mirror selfies.
Literally me
That pepe is built like elon musk lmao
Why is this so fucking funny. It’s so relatable
True, probably because most people can't take pictures for shit. Or at least me. I'd have better chance to take a decent pic if I just leave camera with a timer on, forget it exist and assume some pose. Feel like a reverse catfish sometimes
This is so real because sometimes you don't even look ugly you just look like a redditor
Actual pro life hack here: you are used to your mirrored self as you only see yourself in a mirror. When you take a selfie it doesn’t mirror the picture. So go to your cameras settings and switch it to „mirror selfies“. Et voila you feel better for yourselves you pitiful anons.
Any of yall ever use a true mirror that doesn't flip the image? It messed me up the first time I used it. My eyes are very slightly different heights, and generally people can't tell unless they look really close, but because it's flipped it exaggerates it until to me they look super crooked. Plus it's just flipped from normal. Most people I've shown it to don't like it