2006-11-03 08:34:47 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
It's a bunch of things.
First the lighting does its bit, especially with flash photography that tends to make everything look a little bit frozen, as opposed to natural light.
Second, when you look in the mirror you don't see one image, you see a lot lot more: you get closer, you walk away. You look at your face, at your waist, at the whole, then just at the top and so forth. So you gather information and use this info to create a mental vision of what you look like. With a picture, it's just that one image. So it's not just that it's 2D and not 3D, it's that it's a poor reflection of a single moment.
2006-11-03 23:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by jollywood 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i look awful in pics from digi cams, i also look awful in mirrors in big stores with lots of overhead tube lights, yet at home in my mirrors i look great, i get really paranoid about it. Recently took a photo of my 13 year old son and he looked weird the person in the picture is not the person i see every day, they say a picture never lies but maybe they do, lets hope so eh!
2006-11-05 10:56:27 · answer #2 · answered by kelly c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a picture of yourself in a mirror. Does the picture now look like the reflection?
2006-11-03 21:02:07 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In photos you see yourself the opposite way round to in a mirror. As our faces are not symmetrical we see a 'different' person.
RoyS
2006-11-06 02:09:50 · answer #4 · answered by Roy S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Mirror reverses the image, left to right.
A photo gives the true image, as others see it.
You can reverse the negative, to print the way a mirror would make it, its reconed women preffer this, photographers often do this to portraits of women!
2006-11-03 16:39:50 · answer #5 · answered by ben b 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's all about lighting. When you're getting your picture taken, the flash caused by the camera or depending where you are, the artificial or natural light that's present will alter the way you look on the photo.
2006-11-03 16:42:26 · answer #6 · answered by jenahfah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its one of those funny things. However whats even funnier is if you get a photo of your face and copy half of it in photo shop or paint and then paste it and turn it round and then put the two pieces together - you'll be amazed how funny you look and how unsymmetrical your face is
Give it a go - when my dad did one of me i laughed so much i nearly peed my pants
2006-11-03 16:38:11 · answer #7 · answered by Bebe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hello i too look not nice in the mirror too someday i think when look in to it it may fall of the wall with my face and some day look in the mirror may see better me i wish
2006-11-03 16:49:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As with every woman, its psychological. Pictures only give you a 2D look as with a mirror you can see more 3D
2006-11-03 16:37:16 · answer #9 · answered by Amy J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you forgot to say "Mirror, mirror on the wall" first.
2006-11-03 16:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Emm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋