• Asafum@feddit.nl
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      Oh God yeah… I only recently learned that apparently I’m a white Steve Urkel…

      Ugly and with a voice like that. It was when I realized that, I realized God is real and he’s an absolute son of a bitch lol

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    Naw it’s not just you. Myself and others also think you look like trash in photos ;)

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        Our eyes and brains compensate for a lot of things that cameras do not. White balance is a good one, where things indoor under warm lighting can look orange while things out in the sunlight can look blue.

        I think perspective and distance correction with human faces is definitely one of those. So if you got the distance from the mirror correct, the effect might not jump out at you in person like it does with photos.

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          The numbers shown in that gif are the focal length, but the change in perspective is indeed actually due to the camera’s distance from the subject. When you are close to a person with a wide lens, their nose is considerably closer to the camera than their ears and hair, so it appears bigger. When you are further away with a nice telephoto lens for portraits, all their facial features are roughly the same distance away, so they all appear the same size.

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    You’re just not used to seeing yourself like you really look. A mirror image is not the real you, but a mirror image. So to others, you probably look like you do, when you look in the mirror.

    Nobody likes the sound of their own voice when they hear a recording for the first time. Because we are used to our voice vibrating our upper body and skull .

    I hope this can make somebody feel better about themselves.

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    mirrors don’t really show you candidly in profile too, you gotta bend weird to see the side of your body and you can’t really see the side of your head. I saw a candid profile photo of me once and realized I was way fatter than I thought I was and had shit posture. I’ve lost weight since but my posture is still real bad. I got fuckin nerd neck!!

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    Try flipping the image, our faces and expressions aren’t perfectly symetrical. That being said, if you like it then flip it back before posting it. People are used to seeing you, not the flipped version you’re used to seeing… There’s some evidence that zoomers aren’t as bothered by this because a sizable chunk use their ph9nes as mirrors and take more photos for Snapchat and similar apps.

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    It’s why I have next to no pictures of myself. I could never take selfies because I hate seeing myself lol