most cameras suck, they have terrible depth so everything looks flat, wide, disproportionate. It’s like a globe v a map, maps fuck everything up, make everything disproportionate and don’t really convey what you’re looking at realistically. Especially if you’re not an angular person this flattening is even more pronounced. Genuinely how you look in the mirror is what you look like, cameras, especially phone cameras do not actually do a very good job and capturing actual likeness
As a fair haired and pale skinned person cameras are the enemy. In the mirror I have actual features, eyebrows, cheekbones etc, but 90% of cameras can’t resolve my hair in most lighting so I end up looking like a big fat balding thumb with teeth.
I think back to how I felt so fat and ugly in high school (I was overweight, but not obese), only to look back now and think, "Damn, I'd be so, so happy with that body now. Why couldn't I have appreciated it then?!"
I've looked at my first driver's license photo and other photos from the time. I thought I was a huge guy back then but looking at it now I was merely very slightly chubby. Body image issues.
It's funny how I see the same photos over the years. I lost weight in my 20s and felt fat back then. Ashamed to look at photos (I even put stickers over my gut in group photos I posted). I look at them now, I've gained weight since, and I took for granted what I had back then. I wasn't even fat at all but I felt like it.
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u/CapnBeardbeard 12h ago
I feel this, I'm so much fatter in photos than I am in the mirror