I know how you feel OP and some of the following posters. I feel like I never take good pictures or some mirrors make me look dumpy and tired.
Biggest factor is lighting, good lighting will bring your best features, like at photo shoots, family/school pictures, professional shoots, heavy sunlight (esp, if it is blinding bright). A mirror under bright lights (especially w/halogen lights) will almost always bring out your best features, alone.
Another thing is mirror, some mirrors have awkward shapes or are situated in way that presents distortion, especially in low level lighting.
Last thing is you just have awkward facial expressions sometimes, the flash from cameras can cause, as well as the anxiety from taking a picture...it might project into picture. Cameras also do not perceive images and objects as well as the human eye does, or perceives visual light as well. The naked eye is like 5,000 times more powerful than the best cameras in the world put together.
Ex. I'll use a certain event. Take an NFL.MLB.NBA game or even fashion shoot or being in war country (like Iraq) as an observer,soldier, or reporter. The effect that you get between a color picture, live recording, or being at those actual function is as different as an apple is to carrot as it is to a kiwi.
Unlike the real human eyes, most TV programs and broadcast-ed events are presented in away to deceive the human eye and kind of play tricks on the brain. Good examples are professional sporting events and music videos. The fast paced wired sprung cameras, aerial shots, panoramic images, extreme closeup zoom-ins, instant replays, bright colors, and simultaneous shots are all what keeps TV shows exciting and interesting. Yet, it is not reality in the format that it is presented in.
No person in the world in their own body can perceive things like that, if you could you'd have a legitimate superpower. Also, TV is presented through cameras, which I have already said are not nearly as perceptive as even fairly weak human eye.
The human eye is like one of the biggest keys to the human brain to where it senses things as they are in the moment as live feeling (touch, taste, smelling, hearing, and seeing). Doing or seeing something in person stays in the brain much longer than something you might see on TV, because you are part of the experience, itself. Being at a live-sporting event or music concert blows away seeing a performance on TV. Your perceptions are seriously altered between the two.
When I see a person in the flesh, I am seeing them as they actually are, even better than the best cameras or mirrors (in a room with best lighting). ALmost every person or thing, I've seen my life has looked better in person (if it is not photoshopped).
I always look bad in photos, why!?
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I know how you feel OP and some of the following posters. I feel like I never take good pictures or some mirrors make me look dumpy and tired.
Biggest factor is lighting, good lighting will bring your best features, like at photo shoots, family/school pictures, professional shoots, heavy sunlight (esp, if it is blinding bright). A mirror under bright lights (especially w/halogen lights) will almost always bring out your best features, alone.
Another thing is mirror, some mirrors have awkward shapes or are situated in way that presents distortion, especially in low level lighting.
Last thing is you just have awkward facial expressions sometimes, the flash from cameras can cause, as well as the anxiety from taking a picture...it might project into picture. Cameras also do not perceive images and objects as well as the human eye does, or perceives visual light as well. The naked eye is like 5,000 times more powerful than the best cameras in the world put together.
Ex. I'll use a certain event. Take an NFL.MLB.NBA game or even fashion shoot or being in war country (like Iraq) as an observer,soldier, or reporter. The effect that you get between a color picture, live recording, or being at those actual function is as different as an apple is to carrot as it is to a kiwi.
Unlike the real human eyes, most TV programs and broadcast-ed events are presented in away to deceive the human eye and kind of play tricks on the brain. Good examples are professional sporting events and music videos. The fast paced wired sprung cameras, aerial shots, panoramic images, extreme closeup zoom-ins, instant replays, bright colors, and simultaneous shots are all what keeps TV shows exciting and interesting. Yet, it is not reality in the format that it is presented in.
No person in the world in their own body can perceive things like that, if you could you'd have a legitimate superpower. Also, TV is presented through cameras, which I have already said are not nearly as perceptive as even fairly weak human eye.
The human eye is like one of the biggest keys to the human brain to where it senses things as they are in the moment as live feeling (touch, taste, smelling, hearing, and seeing). Doing or seeing something in person stays in the brain much longer than something you might see on TV, because you are part of the experience, itself. Being at a live-sporting event or music concert blows away seeing a performance on TV. Your perceptions are seriously altered between the two.
When I see a person in the flesh, I am seeing them as they actually are, even better than the best cameras or mirrors (in a room with best lighting). ALmost every person or thing, I've seen my life has looked better in person (if it is not photoshopped).