/feels/ - Advice & Venting

Images from cameras always somehow l ook different, I wouldn't worry about it.

>>101854
I feel for you, nona! I experienced the same for a long time. I would suggest taking photos of yourself under different lighting (with not filters) to learn how to style your hair/makeup in a way that best suits you. That way when you have people take pictures of you you won't be as thrown off. Also, remember that pictures are reversed so it will always look a bit different than what you are used to seeing of yourself. Hope this helps!

>>101854
>i look in the mirror and think i look okay, but every time someone takes a picture of me i look like a monster
Your face isn't perfectly symmetrical. You're used to seeing the way you look in the mirror, which is literally a mirrored image. The unmirrored image taken by a camera facing you is unfamiliar to your brain, hence the uncanny effect or feelings of looking deformed. These feelings are probably intensified for people who often fixate on their appearance in the mirror, which I'd guess you've been doing since you said you've been trying to look good in public. You probably look fine. You could even test it by taking a picture of your ID and then flipping the image and seeing if you prefer how it looks.

>>101854
that's normal. everyone looks worse in pictures than in irl or mirrors, It's something about the camera lens that I don't remember right now. I looked like a weird junkie in my ID photo too.

Embrace the ugliness. It's the only way out.

>>101854

Nona, I photograph poorly but I feel confident/pretty when I look in the mirror. Remember that people who see you every day are seeing the real you, the same you see in the mirror (just flipped). Not only that, but the alive you, not a still snapshot. I just quit taking pictures of myself or looking when people take my picture. It's really not that big of a deal even though the social media saturated world will tell you otherwise right now.

Your face is so heavily distorted by lens depth, it's insane. If you have a unique facial structure, your beauty is going to be squandered on a poor camera setup. I have a big nose that suits my face, but in photos it just looks so weird, totally wrong. Portrait photographers will use a specific lens to capture your face properly, not the DMV. And even then it's destined to still distort your face a bit. And that's why all photographers also have photoshop proficiency.

Not to mention that most of our front-facing cameras apply smoothers/beautifiers/filters to the image so we are essentially brainwashing ourselves to have body dysmorphia. (mine came with it on by default)

>>101854
This was exactly how I felt looking at pictures of myself my coworkers took a couple weeks ago. The problem is that your brain is accustomed to the reversed version of yourself in the mirror, practice taking a lot of selfies and videos without digital mirroring/filters. (a lot of newer devices have them on by default and it's very annoying to try and turn off) You will start to enjoy your own unique angles and facial structure a lot more, newly discovered self-confidence galore.

>>101962
How to I gain the power to instantly kill anybody who photographs me below 200mm? I want to become that one SCP but only with unflattering photos.

>>101962
tried looking this up and it doesn't seem to be focal length idk why that's the explanation. maybe focal length also determines max resolution so higher is the only effective way of taking photos at a distance? i think the 200mm you posted is not representative of how people see you face-to-face either. because our eyes should have the same effect. although the human eye and perception is not a camera.

>>102151
The commenter is correct that distance is what changes how it looks but you need to increase focal length(zoom in layman's terms) to frame the picture up the same without cropping.

If the 200mm shot was taken at the same distance as the 24mm shot it would just be a blurry picture of the bulb of her nose.