Why is it when You look in the mirror you look fine, but then when you have your picture taken you look totally different, ugly?
2006-12-28 09:43:16 · 6 answers · asked by suzanne_scorpio 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
I am a photographer. It's 50-50 when you are photographing yourself, every time. Really. I've been doing this since forever and on a good day I have about a 80% chance of doing something spectacular with myself and film if I'm feeling creative.
Use slow speed film, a tripod, and film that is made for your complextion. If you are Asian, fuji, Euro, Agfa or Ilford, and just about everyone likes kodak, if you have a digital camera don't stress.
Photograph yourself in good light obviously is the best start here.
Figure out how you want to look, how you dress to impress do the same thing for your photograph.
Take alot of photographs, full profile, head to toe, both sides, 2/3s anything, happy, sad, drunk, silly, hilarious, stern, serious, bored, normal, scared whatever. Honestly the more you photograph the easier it becomes to photograph yourself.
After two or so rolls or 72 photographs you will have every notion of how you photograph and what your prefferences are. You don't have to try out all of this stuff, do all the profiles, and maybe a few "other" emos rather than just smiling through all of them.
Here's the important one, photograph with a friend or better yet a photographer, talk it through, figure it out, maybe even somebody at the photoplace near you would be willing to spend a day at it, it's a pretty normal kinda photography type of assignment, I might be interested, I dunno.
Woman are never satisfied with their looks. Nobody is, we just know how to accept ourselves, and maybe a photography project could work for you.
Review old photos with your friend(s), mate, expert photography advisor and seperate the ones you like with the ones you don't see if there are any major difference, what's not working what is working.
Take your time.
Photograph your self in environments familiar to you. Pay attentention to where the frame is so you don't lose a body part and calmly have fun with it. Maybe unfamiliar as well just to see or something, by now it's enough to do it seems.
Most importantly take your time.
2006-12-28 10:26:01 · answer #1 · answered by Steven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever noticed that when you look in the mirror and then you look away, that it is not the same face you put on in the mirror? Well, when you're in a mirror, you tend to instinctively adjust your face, so that it looks good to you. But when you're about to be taken a picture of, you don't really have anyway of seeing what you look like unless you are really close to the camera and can see your own reflection. Plus, when you look at yourself in a picture, you see a million imperfections. Other people may not notice anything wrong with it, and may even think you are beautiful.
2006-12-28 09:49:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Same here. I look totally different in a picture than I do from looking at myself in a mirror. Remember though that we are our biggest critics, so we will see flaws where others don't.
2006-12-28 09:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by Bengal 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, define "ugly." I doubt that if you truly like your appearance in the mirror that you will find a picture of yourself to be ugly.
2006-12-28 10:00:15 · answer #4 · answered by mistaken_reflections 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
lighting differences
you are used to looking at yourself in a mirror; the camera is a reverse of what you're used to seeing. maybe your left eye is shaped differently than the right; in a picture, it looks different to you. photos are 2-dimensional. mirrors show depth better than photographs. photos flatten everything, unless proper lighting is used.
2006-12-28 09:54:30 · answer #5 · answered by Becky 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I dunno, I don't look that great in the mirror either to be honest :-)
2006-12-28 10:53:29 · answer #6 · answered by teef_au 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋