I got a haircut and a beard trim today and felt cute, but I feel like an actual goblin when I try to take selfies. And I feel like it's weird to just send a couple to a friend and ask, "Hey, am I ugly?" lmao
The camera fov makes a lot of difference, as does lighting, angle and posture. Like just moving your chin forward a bit makes a big difference in a photo. We have binocular vision, so that means photos always look a bit different, plus the image we construct in our brains of an object in motion, even slightly, is different than a still. Finally, we're generally very familiar with our own faces, so what we read first in them is different from what someone else might.
Anyway, I photograph like shit.
Maybe I'll do some reading on how to take decent photos and see if that helps. I also tend to look at myself much more negatively when I'm depressed.
I took a selfie once and it was basically :lt-dbyf-dubois:
selfies distort how you look, the further away you get the camera the better they turn out. most people irl aren't inches from your face
That's a good point. I should get a cheap tripod and see what happens when I take photos from further away.
The trick is to never, never, ever take low angle shots
Yeah I'm super hot, but I suddenly have 12 chins and my nose grows 3 inches every time I take a picture. Gotta take like 80 photos to get one I don't hate. This is pretty common, I think, and I've made lots of money of taking pictures of myself. You probably look cute, but tense up or have bad lighting or weird angles. Photos are hard, especially of yourself.
I look good in pictures but only pictures taken a meter away
Having ur photo taken is a skill. Hard to teach and hard to learn, which isn't a fun answer, but it's the truth.
The trick that worked for me was "smile with your eyes" though that's not gonna help everyone
Judging by how infrequently I change my Facebook display pic, I look good in approximately one photo every four years.
That's how I feel! I know I'm okay-looking, and people have told me so in the past. But for some reason, photographs just don't do me justice.
Everyone tells me I'm cute as fuck but every single photo I'm in I look like a sweaty hairy hog of a man mid bender.
I also think I look pretty good (when I'm in shape and dressing well) and the photos still look to me and others "unflattering". I think some people just be unphotogenic. Or more realistically we just aren't using a combination of camera technologies or settings or techniques that would make us look really good but would be ass for a lot of the population and therefore are very far from "the defaults".
The closer you are to the curve the more "a few tweaks" makes a huge difference. The further to the extremes you are the more it's "here's 3 10 page articles on lens theory and light refraction and moisture and posing well and fashion for your body type go and master all of that and you can take an average picture".
Edit: To add/verify what others have said, I look generally fucking terrific in photos taken by professionals in controlled settings with instruction and at appropriate distance. I actually even look good as fuck in my license photo surprisingly. Never once has a friend/myself taken a good photo of me though.
every single photo I’m in I look like a sweaty hairy hog of a man mid bender.
:lt-dbyf-dubois:?
Mirror: I look great
Selfies: Awkward as heck
Pictures other people took: Some sort of troll
(Actual opinions by other people: I dunno you look pretty generic. Some people think I'm hot though, so it's fine.)
I hate when I'm looking at the screen and I'm like, "Look at that qt." Then after I snap the photo I say, "Damn, that's what I look like??" :powercry-1:
Yes absolutely - and anyway the person in the photos isn't me, it's just a representation of me by a machine, but the person in the mirror is me... right? Or is that just the representation of me by my own eyes/the mirror...
Is the only true "me" the one that other people see?
Me in photos is a fuckin' lib and the me that I am is the one true leftist me.
the person in the mirror is me… right? Or is that just the representation of me by my own eyes/the mirror…
Good mirrors are pretty accurate, the problem is that they ... mirror the image. Your face isn't perfectly symmetrical. So you'll never look the same in the mirror as you would if you could look directly at your face. Kinda fucked up to think about.
