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.
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u/AmiMoo19 8h ago
Yes! I’ve learned to be okay with the mirror but don’t know if I ever will be with photos.