Why do you feel ok in the mirror, but the front camera of your mobile phone is ugly?

Your brain tells you that it is the most important organ in your body and it can also let you see what you want to see.

When looking in the mirror, what I want to see most is my "most beautiful/handsome" self. At this time, although it can't be compared with the school flower, it is at least 30% better than the front camera. On the one hand, it is subconscious self-suggestion, on the other hand, your brain doesn't want to provoke you here.

The simplest way to judge whether it is self-suggestion is to turn on the front camera and make facial expressions for a while, but don't shoot. You can make faces or smile. Pick an angle that you think is relatively beautiful, remember what this moment looks like, click shoot or video, ok…… ... and see your achievements. Is it as beautiful as what you saw a few seconds ago?

Brain: This person is me. I just see myself like this, but I haven't made that expression/action yet, so it's none of my business. Ugly!

To give another simple example, the more people are afraid of spiders, the more they often have false illusions about them after seeing them. They will think that spiders are very big and close to themselves, and they will even rush to their side soon. People who are not afraid of spiders will find that spiders are at least one-third smaller than described, and the distance is far less than those who are afraid of spiders. This is actually the same "illusion" created by the brain, and it is also true for ghosts.

Compared with the "unusually smart" brain, your front camera will not deceive people, and they will not "please" you, but it must be the most real you, whether it is countless acne marks on your face, crow's feet around your eyes, or even blackheads on your nose. It can give you a complete restoration, and with the charming shooting angle, I'm afraid you will want to cry after seeing the photo.

This is why the function of beauty is becoming more and more powerful now. Some live broadcast platforms look casually, as if all the beautiful and handsome guys in the whole region are gathered together, but when they really go out, they find that most of them are passers-by's faces. Many people are obsessed with beauty and dare not face reality. The front camera is not ugly, it just shows you who you really are.

It may be the "frozen face effect".

Psychologists at the University of California and Harvard University have found that people think people in videos look better than screenshots of the same video. When someone in a video is paused while talking, the static image of this person is usually not as good as the dynamic image when the video is playing. We call this phenomenon "frozen face effect" (FFE)

Not much to say, look at the picture. Do you think the left face is more smart and beautiful? The same face, static and dynamic gives people different feelings. What you see in the mirror is dynamic, but the photo is static, so you will feel that you look better in the mirror than in the photo.

Also, the focal length of the human eye is different from the focal length of the camera of the mobile phone. Shooting with the mobile phone may make the face look strange. In addition, light is also a great influence factor. When the light is bad, the photos taken will make the face lose its three-dimensional sense and become a little flat. This is why most people's photos are not as good as their own.

The scenery or people you see are images produced by two eyes about 7cm apart, while the mobile phone is imaged by a single camera. The imaging of mobile phones is generally "fatter" than people see, which is more obvious when shooting relatively close objects, such as taking big photos and registering photos; In addition, for technical reasons, the objects photographed by mobile phones or digital cameras are distorted. Similarly, this distortion is more obvious when shooting objects at relatively close range. If you don't believe me, try a close-up A4 printing paper. Even the company can't, but it's obviously distorted. This deformation extends to the TV set of the old CRT picture tube. This TV set has special pillow correction circuit and S correction circuit in hardware and even software, but it is estimated that it has not been considered so much in cameras and mobile phones. Even if there are mobile phones with dual cameras and multi-cameras, the distance between them is very small, and some are arranged vertically or even quadrangularly. So it is normal that different conditions produce different results.

I don't know if you have heard the theory that people see themselves in the mirror 30% better than their real selves, which means that the mirror has been deceiving you, or that your brain has been deceiving you. What you see is your own real-time image, and your perception of yourself is emotional, but the camera will not deceive you. What you record honestly is of course not aesthetic. Although many rear cameras now automatically force beautification, the other is the angle problem, but most people will have the most suitable angle for taking pictures. If you look patiently, you will find your most beautiful side.

This is because in the mirror, you see a three-dimensional image with two eyes, while you take a single-lens plane image with your mobile phone.

There is indeed this problem. In normal life, the most beautiful moment when people see themselves is probably their reflection in the glass of the shopping mall and their reflection in front of the fitting mirror. With the lights of the shopping mall, they really see that they are beautiful.

The first is angle, and the second is light. The light determines how fat, thin, beautiful and ugly you are in the camera. When shooting, you should find a well-lit Guangzhou, preferably a photometer, which can highlight your five senses. Third, there may be a problem with the front camera. The front camera is turned over and may not be used to it. The point is still on the lamp. Change the light. Okay, look, make sure it's beautiful, Shuai Shuai.

Mobile phone photography is not as good as looking in the mirror because there will be lens distortion when shooting with a camera.

Definition of lens distortion:

Generally speaking, lens distortion is actually the general term for the inherent perspective distortion of optical lenses, that is, the distortion caused by perspective, which is very unfavorable to the imaging quality of photos. After all, the purpose of photography is reproduction, not exaggeration, but because this is the inherent characteristic of the lens (convex lens condensing, concave lens diverging), it can not be eliminated and can only be improved. The optical design and materials of high-grade lenses are exquisite. Using the optimized design of lens group and selecting high-quality optical glass (such as fluorite glass) to make lenses can reduce the perspective deformation to a very low level. However, it is impossible to completely eliminate the distortion. At present, the best quality lenses are tested under extremely strict conditions, and the edges of the lenses will be deformed and distorted to varying degrees.

In fact, what the eyes see is what the brain wants you to see, which means that sometimes it is not necessarily objective. When people look in the mirror, the light in the mirror is directly reflected into their eyes without any treatment.

At this time, your eyes will play a role, far and near, left and right are all carried out by looking at the cooperation of two eyes.

You can do a small experiment: usually an object, and then look at it with one eye, you will find that this object will change slightly with the change of your left and right eyes. If it is not obvious, you can also put your thumb between the object and your eyes, and you will also find it.

In other words, the imaging of the eyes is three-dimensional, and at this time, the brain will play a role. In order to make yourself more confident, your brain will make you ignore some shortcomings of your appearance and exaggerate your advantages, so that you will feel handsome in the mirror.

Unfortunately, that's not your image in others' eyes.

Then why are mobile phones different?

It's actually quite simple. The image collected by the front camera of the mobile phone is flat, which will magnify your shortcomings, which is why people with small faces look better on camera.