Why do I look good in the mirror but bad in photos? Find out why.

Ugly in the photo? Often, even if your friends say you looked great in the photo, something seems strange: sometimes it's your hair that doesn't look good, the proportion of your face, your expression… it's as if the camera captures another person; someone other than the one you know for yourself.

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This phenomenon is called photogenic, the way we see ourselves through the photo can be influenced by numerous variables: factors such as angle, lighting and even the equipment used can transform a scene. Still, it's photography paper make the reproduction of a moment be natural.

But if cameras and techniques evolve every year, why do so many people feel uncomfortable with your own images?

Mirror is responsible for perception of being ugly in the photo

From a very young age, we are used to our own reflection. It's in the espelho that we see each other every morning and that's also where we check if an outfit fits us well. When we look in the mirror, the conditions of light e heart they look perfect; a mirror also does not suffer from low resolution or granulation. However, the mirror is responsible for 'skew' the image we have of ourselves:

If you remember the classes optics of school time, you must also remember that, unlike cameras, the mirror reverses the images horizontally. With this, the reflection we see is the inverse of what a person would see if they were in the same position as the mirror.

Note that, if we were in the place of the mirror, the notion between right and left would change. We would know that the boy's hand is the right, even though, from our point of view, she was on the opposite side. In the mirror, this relationship is reversed. The hand right always appears in right side from the mirror.

The real impact of mirroring on being ugly in the photo

Has everything to do. Because they function as another person's point of view, cameras do not reflect our image. They capture and display the photo without inverting it, causing a certain strangeness when we remember our own image, which is made in our imagination based on mirrors.

Although it doesn't seem like it, this effect alone is enough for us to find ourselves 'strangers' in a photo. After years and years of seeing our faces in mirrors, seeing you without that horizontal inversion makes us strange.

this is the actress Jennifer Aniston, considered by many to be one of the most beautiful women on American TV. Though you don't realize it, the face of Jennifer, like all of us, not perfectly symmetrical: their ends have subtle differences that, although we can't point them out, we engrave them in our memories.

This is because the human brain is expert in memorizing patterns, recognizing the details of any familiar image.

However, the very Jennifer Aniston it is not seen this way. The image she has of herself was created on the basis of mirrors – that is, Aniston it is seen horizontally inverted; how we all see each other.

Due to the large number of photos of her spread around the world, it is possible that the actress is no longer surprised by her 'non-inverted' image. However, most people do not go through the same, having a huge strange feeling seeing their faces in this situation.

When we talk about our own face, this feeling ends up being much bigger. Even without realizing it, we love to take pictures in front of the mirror, or using apps that imitate the effect of a - like Snapchat e Social media coordinator do in the images recorded with the front camera.

Camera apps like Cymera, and even the original camera of most Android smartphones – such as the Samsung – already allow saving the 'mirror image' when taking selfies. When capturing with the rear camera, the only option to see yourself as in the mirror is manually inverting the image with the help of an editor.

How to enable the feature on your phone and not look ugly in the photo

On most Android devices, whether from Samsung or other brands, the option to modify the selfie mirroring setting appears as “Save selfies as viewed”, accessible from the camera settings menu, as seen below:

Now at iPhone, the process is similar, except for the necessary changes due to differences between iOS and Android – in addition to the fact that this method is only available on Apple devices that are running iOS 14 or higher.

To avoid mirroring selfies on iPhone then user needs to go to device settings app and choose Camera.

In the Camera settings, the user must look for the Composition menu and turn off the Front Camera Image Mirroring. With this, the same photo optimization described above for Samsung devices will be achieved on the iPhone.

Do the test!

Although the mirror effect is a trick intended only for users to feel more comfortable with photos, it still proves that much of our 'photogenic' is influenced by our perception of ourselves.

Precisely for this reason, don't let insecurity prevent you from registering a beautiful moment. Use photography techniques to your advantage!

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Source: WindowsDispatch

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