I still don’t get why the flipped/inverted image of myself is so crooked and asymmetrical! People say “oh you’re just not used to your flipped side” but there’s something more behind it… my eyes, nose, cheeks, look extremely disfigured lol
@@hungergameshub becouse the tilt you see on mirror is on the other side and when you see the flipped it kinda ”doubles” and looks extreme to you + youre not used to seeing that unmirrored image. there you go.
For the longest time growing up, I absolutely hated how I looked in photos and always avoided joining in group photos with friends and family. So much regret looking back with all those captured memories and me not being in them. My self esteem was basically rock bottom as a teen
I'm glad I sucked up to my insecurities and took the damn photo because y'all I wasn't about to bring attention to myself like the girlies who had to bitch and scream anxiety and not at all feeling anxious on how others around them are perceiving their bullshit again. Its 1000% embarrasing and an annoying burden for everyone to deal with, there's more to the world than how you feel, you all have main character syndrome. You have anxiety about bringing attention to yourself yet you bring attention to yourself by noting you have anxiety everytime of every moment when there's a camera, or godforsaken a PE class 😂😂
It's not possible to be attractive in a mirror & not in real life people need to stop worrying! Yes it's a reversed image but look at someone you know in a mirror they essentially look the same to how you see them IRL, same applies to you.
That’s the thing!!! A mirror is really quite accurate, all it does is flip you, so if you look good in flipped version, I swear to god you look good un flipped too, it’s just not possible to look good flipped, but bad unflipped
There's a place in my house where two mirrors are in a way you can see your real image, like the one that is not inverted and has the same proportions. And honestly I look better in the real one than I see myself in mirrors.
You completely missed the point! Look at someone you know during a video chat with camera all up in their face and they don't look the same as if they were standing next to you staring in the mirror. There are distortions that happen as explained in the video. How they look in real life or in the mirror is different from how they'll look on your phone during a video chat or taking a selfie.
Thank you! Do you know what is the focal length of the phone’s cameras? Btw I LOVE your profile picture! W.I.T.C.H and the Winx Club were everything to me growing up.
@@winxclubstellamusa woah thanks I did not know exactly where this profile pic came from. I just got it from Google because wolves are my favorite animal.
@@ellobopoderososdl4596 sorry, I thought that you were OP, lol. But I think your profile picture is really cool too 😊 wolves were my first favorite animal growing up, and I still love them.
Same here. Another thing, it's not only the proportions that are off in pictures, it's the lighting too, depending on the quality of the camera. And the frontal camera of a phone is...not great.
Okay I look absolutely disgusting in pictures, but I look acceptable in the mirror when I get ready. It’s given me serious photo-insecurity. To the point when I see someone taking pictures I duck out or have a bathroom emergency.
Same. I think I look ok in the mirror, but the pictures are never good. Messed my perspective up. I wonder what I look like to people, if I'm ugly after all sometimes and want to hide.
Same. I loon decent irl and on wedding pictures taken with a good camera. Other than that I look like Gollum and the Grinch had a lovechild that's me. I feel betrayed. Also it took me until 30 to realize I'm not actually ugly, just my selfie camera sucks.
I’ve heard that people with flatter faces tend to be more photogenic, whereas your standard front facing camera distorts features like angled cheekbones or jawline which are generally very attractive features in person
I truly believe that a mauve larger percentage of humans are actually beautiful and would look great in films. Most of us just never get to be filmed with such high quality cameras, lenses, and oat of us ever get professionals to light the set, most of us don’t have companies and designers sending us free fancy clothes to wear. Most of us don’t have a professional editor to edit and color grade. If everyone had what famous people had, then most of us would be just as captivating on camera. And the masses would come to know our faces and see beauty in our features that they would have never noticed had we just walked by them or posted an IPhone selfie online.
Finally someone said it!! Lots of videos trying to explain the difference between mirrors and phone cameras solely focus on the habit of the reverse image. While it's also true, this lens deformation thing is a much better explanation
Same, my nose looks small and pretty in the mirror, in selfies it looks bigger and unflattering on my face. Similar with my eyes, they look pretty and big in the mirror but small and boring in selfies
that's why I could ruin my day just by looking at the phone camera to see if my hairs ok and see a musty squished bean just to get home to a mirror and it turns out to be completely fine
What are you talking about? I'm not the one staring at selfies and whinning about my appearance in mirrors. I am too busy to be depressed and worrying about my nose. Of course, the under 40 crowd has nothing but time to do these things. So yeah, they are depressed because they are average looking and not all that attractive. Is this news?@@A.Rose.G
this relates to my "theory of photogeneiety". i always wondered why some people look quite like themselves on pictures while others go from a 8 in real life to a bare 5 on most pictures. my hypothetical answer was always that some people have their features structured geometrically in a way that they appear more invariant under these projection changes.
That’s true. This is why dating profile experts recommend a professional picture or someone take the picture for you rather than a selfie because the selfie distorts the facial features.
But almost no one knows the why. Hence why so many ppl have complaints about "they didn't look like their pic". Then you have filters... They only came about to combat those lense distortions, but it's still a whole extra element of fakery. Like a smoothed distortion over another distortion.
I modelled for years and was told all the time by both agencies and photographers that I photograph harshly and look far better in real life, it sucks in a way cus it means I can easily take a bad photo but I’d rather have it this way than the other way around as some people look way better in photos and I guess that can be bad for online dating situations haha. Lighting and angles are a complicated thing and some faces just compliment the lens better than others.
Doesn’t that mean people with overly wide or proportioned faces would actually look better close up in selfie mode, since it distorts them back to a theoretical ideal standard.
yeah it does kinda make rounder/shorted faces look better (depending on what you see as better), it's also true for the opposite that people with longer faces (oval, rectangle, diamond etc) would look like a bean like the guy in the example
@@bubbletea-v4717 Not every diamond face is long. I have a diamond face shape with really wide protruding cheekbones but not proportionate facial height. It looks abysmal
@@namak7547 Heart face shape has wide forehead. Mine doesn't. Mine has a narrow forehead, wide cheekbones coupled with a narrow jaw. So i am pretty sure it's a diamond face shape
@@WilliamAfton984 you can lose weight man, round faces in general look pretty good if you have a decent body fat, since it makes you look more 3d from shadows n stuff
I already have a round face and the widest bits are my cheekbones and my eyes are (I think) kind of narrow for my face. I go from feeling confident in the mirror and then pretty terrible once I see a photo. I have a couple of friends who are extremely photogenic. I’ve taken photos with them and I feel pretty bad afterwards. This video makes me feel a little better though! At 33, I know it shouldn’t matter, but it is what it is. We all have our moments where we’re not feeling as grounded in who we are and what life has given us. I’ve been pretty down on myself for a while so videos like this really helps.
Same. I'm 28, my cheekbones are wide and looking at mirrors I see an ok oval/heart shaped facial structure but in pictures I look like a freaking alien 👽. Makes me feel ugly cuz some of my friends are extremely photogenic and while I feel great having fun time with them, I spiral down and sometimes even cry when I see the pics we'd taken during the time...
I look good in the mirror but when someone takes a photo of me I look horrible. Its gotten to the point where I avoid parties or social gatherings because in this day and age, everything has to be pictured or filmed.
yes exactly, it's so annoying. Like I love capturing memories and I get taking pictures but people can't go do anything fun without shoving a camera in your face at some point, and then they go post them all over facebook or snapchat and tag me in them and then I see them and they're super unflattering and it stresses me out cause the whole time I thought I looked cute : (
I was just doing this with my dog today and she looks so cute in person but when I took a picture of her she just looked different and wasn’t as cute, so I totally agree with this .
I can if its a small phone ..but if its a larger phone it gets hard to get all of my face in for some reason ..or im not centered in the photo. i tend to look best when someone else is taking the photo.
I have a distorted mirror!! It's a new mirror we bought for us and I was like "wait...I'm not this tall" and my aunt was like "wait...I'm not this thin." We felt so lied to. "Is this a prank? One of those carnival mirrors? Why are you lying to us? w h a t i s r e a l i t y ? 😭
@@pelesaudavel7655 heeeeeyy,,, one of those mirrors can help you lose weight, no joke. If you keep seeing yourself thinner every day, your body will eventually comply. (And hopefully will stop wanting pizza n such) 🙏🏼😂 My daughter dropped about 15 lbs bc she just kept telling herself she was getting thinner bc the mirror showed that to her (she was about 15).
When I look in the mirror, I am good looking, good facial expression but when I take a picture or camera I look like Stephen Hawking....I never understood this....This is why I never want to take a picture of myself....
As someone with a long face, I hate that selfies make your face look even longer and your nose looks bigger. I’ve always liked photos of myself taken from more of a distance not because I think I’m busted and need to be further for that reason but that my face gets distorted otherwise. But I think some people take advantage of this and I see people with weak midfaces make use of this feature of the front facing camera to make their midface or jaw look more developed. And then you see them irl or in a tagged photo and they look so different.
@Jason Phan No lens distortion is a different thing, usually on very wide angle lenses that warps an image, creating a fish eye effect. This video specifically demonstrates how the distance between the subject and camera creates a different look, but this is entirely due to how closer objects will appear larger relative to further objects in a frame which doesn't change with a different different focal length lense.
@@fan8432 There is least distortion in the very center on the lens, being really close with your face is going to take up more space & be outside of the center & around the coners which distorts the image. Try taking mirror selfie then tilting your phone slighting purposely placing your head at the corner of the shot, it will elongate or widen & distort your face. Most smartphone cameras especially front facing, put wide angle lenses to fit more people in but distorts a whole lot. Girls play with this angle & distortion to get longer legs in pics & stuff. That's why smart phones are now adding tons of cameras on the back. Back then they only had one camera & went with wide angle lens for best picture in most senerios but now added larger mm lenses for those portrait shots.
@@fan8432 This video is about why you look better in the mirror looking back at yourself than looking at yourself through selfies. Like you said wide angle lenses cause distortion & most smartphone front face cameras use wide angle lense.
@Jason Phan just because a camera uses a wide angle lens doesn't mean that it has lens distortion. You can tell if it does by taking a picture of gridlines and seeing if those lines bend. On my phone, even at the widest option, it doesn't have lens distortion on the front or back camera.
i like myself only on close-up photos. when i move away from camera, my head becomes big and features like eyes, lips, small. i’m glad many people realise that they look better irl, but i’m not one of them xdxd
Its because you dont really look the way u do on camera.... obviously. Filtered thru a camera lens. I mean have u ever noticed that u look different in photos taken by different cameras or camera phones? That is just how u look through that particular lens. The Mirror is how u actually look
yep! I've even noticed some will totally change the way my skin color looks. I have a warm undertone & a cool overtone. If a camera pics up my warm undertones, I look red & splotchy. In real life, I'm more on the pale side. With a decent lense & good lighting, my skin looks like porcelain & that's without any filters. It can be very confusing to the brain though.
When watch over how I much changes gotten after some photos or selfies captured turns me to be an anti self captured, until I joined a band and knows how good is memories, it makes me don't want to regret tons of moments will fades vainly. We know today camera is easily accessible just grateful for it.
I can only look slightly socially acceptably on phone camera shots due to the default filters. When I once had a virtual video call with a doctor over the phone, I saw myself on video and the had turned the filter off. I looked like a gargoyle. Then I learned a bit more about why we look different in mirrors vs cameras. I think there's more to it than just the distortion of your face shape and facial features.
If you have brown eyes and really fair skin it does a weird contrast thing where your nose definition or any definition disappears like an alien or something too. Those cameras definitely alter things pretty badly.
I feel like the last girl looks good in both. Her natural features are so wide and spaced out, that when distorted she still looks like a regular person. Just one with wide pretty features and the other more elongated w a more oval face.
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This is why there is exactly 2 pictures of me in existence. Yes, just 2. This is exactly why I avoid taking pictures and I don't care for other people's pictures. I much prefer REALITY and MOVEMENT. Not some 2D snapshot variation of a human's existence. People have this weird automatic thought process of what a person is like based on a picture i.e. someone smiling in a picture with a group of "friends" gets people automatically thinking "Oh, they're a happy friendly person who is social and/or has lots of friends". Seriously, it's an innate response. Almost like common sense flies out the brains of people, and in that moment people seem to forget that 1. people generally tend to SMILE in posed photos, and 2. It's not difficult to stand next to people. *In reality, the "happy, social" person you see in the photo could be a depressed, depraved, antisocial people-hating maniac* 😊
Yep, a close camera emphasizes the difference in distance between your nose and the camera and your eyes and the camera. When the camera is further, the relative difference is smaller compared to the distance to the camera
I'm not a techy but I can tell camera phones distort images in a way other traditional digital cameras do not. I thought it was because there are multiple lenses.
The mirror is the "real one" but also you look a lot more similar to the mirror in pictures to other people, you just notice the subtle differences more than they do because you pay more attention. But you're not ugly if you're not ugly in the mirror lol
I don’t know why but when they back away from they camera they don’t look as good to me. Their face looks small in comparison to their head and it looks distorted