30 thoughts on “Any other robots know this feel? I am probably the polar opposite from photogenic.

  1. Anonymous says:

    Yes. I always thought I was fairly handsome when I saw myself in the mirror but that vision was not reflected in photos which made me develop a habit of avoiding having my picture taken for anything that doesn’t legally require it. The most recent picture of me is from a decade ago.

    • Anonymous says:

      Pretty much every photo taken by someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing will be unflattering. Bad cameras and harsh lighting make everyone look bad too.

      • Anonymous says:

        >Pretty much every photo taken by someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing will be unflattering. Bad cameras and harsh lighting make everyone look bad too.

        I’d like to think that, but here’s the problem I have with it:

        If someone takes a 30 second movie of a group of people, with me in it…every other person in the movie will look how they always look to me. The video footage, even if it isn’t great quality, doesn’t fundamentally change how they look. The only person who looks different to me will be ME. I will look like a palsic stupid who not only looks completely different from how I see myself in the mirror, but also MOVES like some kind of hecking space alien gay stupid Rain Man heck.

  2. Anonymous says:

    A huge part of a good picture is lighting and lenses. There’s also the psychological aspect to which you always look better when seeing yourself from a familiar angle ie straight on in a mirror, but look awful in profile or something.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Yeah I look horrible pictures I look alright in the mirror tho. But the important question is when people perceive you is it like a mirror or a camera?

  4. Anonymous says:

    taking a good photograph is a skill, focal points, light, colouring, filters etc all make a huge difference

      • Anonymous says:

        absolutely true, but today your online presence is very important on its own
        like if you want to set up a date, you wont even be considered if your photo looks bad, but in person, you can always bullshit your way out

      • Anonymous says:

        >20mm: funny stoner guy, maybe not very friendly, kind of alpha
        >200mm: mr heck yo b***h
        if you cant see this im afraid you have face blindness which is a symptom of the ol tism

      • Anonymous says:

        the 20mm photo rounds off his forehead (feminine feature), makes his nose tip more bulbous, and makes his jaw look much narrower

  5. Anonymous says:

    Try replacing your mirror with a corner mirror (two mirrors forming a right angle). This will show a double reflection of yourself, so will be what others mainly see.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Yep, I hate and avoid cameras. Surest way to ruin my day is to show me a picture of me. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m ugly or because I’ve gotten used to seeing my reverse image so that my real image just seems strange. There’s also the lighting, in the bathroom there’s a lamp right in your face, hiding all the imperfections. And you can’t see your whole face at once, you just look at individual parts of it one at a time. In a picture or video you can see the whole thing and also stuff you’ve never seen before, like how you walk or how you look from behind and it all seems foreign and almost always not how you imagined it. It hit me like a truck when I started realising all these things, realising that I’m not the hunk I thought I was. heckin cameras, I was better off living in a lie.

  7. Anonymous says:

    It gets even hecking worse when you eventually realize that with the mirror you can only really look at yourself head on.

    I think if most people were able to watch A third person recording of themselves they’d be horrified at how ugly they really are.

    Humans are just kinda ugly man

  8. Anonymous says:

    protip do not use your shitty phone to take pictures, even if it has a gigachad 4x lens rear camera with 9001 megapixels of whatever cock and bull shit google is selling these days. The size of the sensor, the lens and its angle and a bunch of other things affect the perspective and the ultimate outcome of the image greatly, and you simply cannot fit a good camera in a small profile such as a modern phone, it’s physically impossible and any halfway decent digital camera you can get for $100 will style on whatever other miniscule chinese garbage your cia tracking device has in it. I don’t know all of the buzzwords or the technical details but check out pic related.

    • Anonymous says:

      perhaps some other anon can recommend a cheap but effective camera to use for this purpose, im certain the autists on the photography board could be helpful

  9. Anonymous says:

    >walk near a mirror at work
    >walk by several times a day
    >sometimes i think i look handsome
    >sometimes i think i look hideous
    >this changes minute to minute
    i assume it must be legit body dismorphia

  10. Anonymous says:

    Schizo here, I feel that pictures obviously capture little bits of your soul in them, I have a real aversion to images of human beings but my eternal soul is worth more than sloppy twenty-seconds from social media using females, plus there’s no circumstance outside of being gigachad where an image actually helps your cause if you are imperfect you are better off hunting in the wild

  11. Anonymous says:

    am I the only one who thinks snapchat changes your selfies? of course snapchat mirrors your image so you like it more, but I also feel like it changes the focal length too somehow, to make you seem flatter and therefore more attractive. I hate selfies except when it’s snapchats selfies.

    • Anonymous says:

      I don’t use snapchat but I know exactly what you’re talking about. I think it actually individually morphs your facial features, it’s one of those AI filter things, as well as smooths out the fine lines and adds a bloom thing over it.

  12. Anonymous says:

    someone took a photo f me in the dark, with flash, and then sent it to me, and its horrifying. I look like a stupid lesbian. I’m a 30 year old man.

  13. Anonymous says:

    Yeah it’s even worse if you have facial asymmetry. Your mirror image is an illusion almost, it’s flipped. We have a false sense of image of ourselves. Don’t forget cameras can have a skewed lense, angle and lighting which also influences this but they highlight your asymmetries. Only by combining two mirrors, if you can put them close together that’s how you actually look like, from your true point of view. I wonder if people’s lenses are slightly different with things. It’s also weird how I feel like my face changes throughout the day, almost the shape and size when looking at the mirror.

    It’s painful knowing I will never know how I truly look but I do know I look more hideous than what my false sense of image that betrays me, or at least makes me cope.

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