Which is more real, yourself in the photo or yourself in the mirror?

Photos are not as real as looking in the mirror,

(A) SLR camera photo analysis

No matter how beautiful a woman is, whether she wears makeup or not, if she doesn't use SLR ps, she will be different from herself. Most of them are ugly, including her face is bigger, fatter and her skin is worse.

The specific analysis is due to the following reasons:

(1) The light is too strong or too dark or the illumination angle is wrong. If the light is not good, the face value of a person who does not take pictures will be reduced. The naked eye's evaluation of a person's face value comes from the comprehensive evaluation of various light-changing effects. A photo has only one light-changing effect and cannot form a comprehensive judgment.

(The poor light in the picture leads to the decrease of Liu Yifei's face value. Friends who have seen real people in Liu Yifei know that Liu Yifei himself is much more beautiful than photos. )

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(2) The use of flash, flash light is very stiff, single spectrum, high definition, unlike natural light, soft light, all kinds of light mixed together gel, and flash will further enlarge the shortcomings of human face.

(Figure Compared with soft light, the flash looks bigger and the defects are more obvious. Note: The contrast pictures are original without ps, and all of them have the same focal length, excluding interference factors).

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(3) Perspective deformation of wide-angle lens and telephoto lens

The feature of close-range shooting with wide-angle lens is that the near is big and the far is small. It will shoot the eyes in the middle of the face near the lens from the cheekbones, nose and mouth that are larger than the actual ones, and the periphery of the face away from the lens (face, top of the head and temporal bone) is smaller than the actual ones.

However, long-distance shooting with telephoto lens will weaken the close-range, making the eyes, nose and mouth smaller than the actual ones and the face larger than the actual ones.

(The picture shows the effect of shooting the same person at different focal lengths and distances. 24mm is a close-up shot with a wide-angle lens, and so is a selfie in front of a mobile phone. The shot is very distorted, the face is too slender, the eye distance is widened, the cheekbones are widened, the temporal bones are narrowed, and the hairstyle is flattened, resulting in the face being bigger than the head (the head can't cover the face), and the nose and mouth are bigger. The standard lens distance of 50mm is 1- 1.5 m, which is closest to the real self, and the telephoto distance of 85-400 is overweight. Compared with 400mm, 24mm is simply not human)

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(4) Head-down face is thinner, and head-up face is bigger, because the near is big and the far is small.

(Photo overhead shooting and overhead shooting)

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Therefore, only by using a standard lens of 50mm, shooting at the human eye height of 1- 1.5 meters away from the face, and using soft natural light with just the right brightness (soft natural light is closer to the comprehensive average evaluation of all kinds of light by the naked eye, so it is suggested to choose the light under the shadow of sunny outdoor, why should we choose this light for detailed analysis), and then shooting a slightly beautiful ps, can we get close to my real effect.

(Why is it beautiful? It is because of the frozen face effect, that is, the static photos are not dynamic, and the dynamic people make the observer unable to concentrate on identifying all the facial defects, while the static photos quietly put all the defects there for people to identify carefully, so the slight beauty is close to the real dynamic self. However, when retouching beauty, it is best to put a mirror in front of you and take care of it while looking in the mirror, so as not to accidentally retouch the picture.

(2) Analysis of mobile phone shooting, why is taking a selfie different from being photographed by others?

First of all, some people take selfies with the front camera, even if they are not beautiful, they look better than those with the rear camera for the following reasons.

(1) The front camera has built-in beautification, but the rear camera generally does not. The rear camera has higher definition, which magnifies the shortcomings.

(2) In addition, when taking a selfie, what angle are you most familiar with, what light is the best, and others are unfamiliar.

(3) It has been analyzed above that the mobile phone camera is a wide-angle lens, which will make the face smaller.

At this time, the problem came. Both the front camera and the rear camera are wide-angle. Why can selfies really be small, and others will still be big?

This is because:

When you take a selfie, you are very close to the camera, and the outline of your face is obviously different from the middle of your face, eyes, nose and mouth, that is, the distance from the camera is obvious. With this obvious, and then use a wide-angle lens to further enlarge this obvious, it seems that the face has a strong reduction.

When others shoot you, you are far away from the camera, and the distance difference between the middle of your face and the outline of your face is not so obvious, that is to say, your proximity, size and distance are not so obvious. It is not obvious in itself. No matter how hard the wide-angle lens works, the effect is not great.

So although the camera of the mobile phone is a wide-angle lens, if you are far away, you can get close to my real effect by shooting according to the shooting skills mentioned in (a) above.

For some people, selfies are not as good as being taken by others, which are generally caused by one or more of the following situations: the face is too thin, the nose or mouth is too big, the cheekbones are too wide, the eye distance is too wide, and the head is low.

As has been analyzed above, the self-timer wide-angle lens will enlarge the eye distance between the nose, mouth and cheekbones and narrow the face shape, so the original large part will become too large, and the original small face shape will become too small and disproportionate. But if someone zooms out with a mobile phone, or shoots with a SLR standard lens and a telephoto lens, there will be no such problem, so it will look good.

(3) Is there a gap between yourself in the mirror and yourself in the eyes of others?

Although the self in the mirror is closer to the truth than the photo, it can't be completely equal to the self in the eyes of others.

Others have no uniform standards for themselves. When friends or lovers look at you, they think you are comfortable or beautiful, while people who hate you feel uncomfortable and not beautiful.

Generally speaking, you should be the closest ordinary friend to yourself in your own eyes. You look comfortable but have no desire for love and xx. Generally speaking, you are worse in the eyes of strangers than in your own eyes, but more beautiful in the eyes of your lover, because your lover will directly have a desire for love and a desire for xx.

Why is this happening? this is because

(1) Eye margin, the prerequisites for a friend to become a friend are: comfort, pleasing to the eye and eye margin.

(2) Exposure effect, an unattractive person often appears around and does something good, so the evaluation of his face value will rise.

For example, Zray, many people thought he was not handsome at first, but after reading Yu Sin, he was quite handsome.

Good friends and lovers often see themselves, and of course they are more beautiful than strangers.

Here, I invented a way to check my face value in the eyes of strangers, that is, I tried not to look in the mirror and take a selfie for a month, and then took a picture when I forgot what I looked like. At this time, I can almost see myself in the eyes of strangers.

(4) Which mirror is more real, the toilet/barber shop mirror or other mirrors?

When new problems arise, mirrors in different places have different effects on people. Which is closer to the real self?

I think it's a bit strange to take a large mirror with a pure plane, at least 50 cm in length and width, and stand in the shadow of a sunny day outside (although it feels a bit strange to take it out). . . . But in order to study your true face value, I suggest you give it a try. . . . )

Analysis of specific reasons:

(1) Why do you want a pure plane? Because the mirrors in many shopping malls and barbershops are micro-concave mirror, which makes people slim. How to judge whether a mirror is a pure plane? The method is to take a picture horizontally in front of the mirror. If you look fatter horizontally than vertically, the mirror will be uneven.

(2) Why do you want the shadow of a sunny day outdoors? Because the light in the shadow of a sunny day outside is the mildest. Toilets, barbershops, fitting rooms and indoor photography look up at the light, and the light shines beautifully after 4 pm on sunny days. In the living room, the light shines at noon on a sunny day, and it is ugly on a cloudy day.

Figure At noon on a sunny day, the different effects of the same person's dome light and indoor photography head-up light are all external network pictures.

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Please see the specific analysis.

Toilet lighting is generally overhead spotlights or yuba. The light quality is strong, hard and bright, and it is warm yellow. Human skin is yellow, too. When yellow light hits the yellow skin, people's vision will think that the yellow skin is the cause of light, and the skin should be white. . . .

It is not enough to have strong and bright yellow light, because although the skin is white, strong light is easy to cause too strong facial shadows, which is still not good-looking.

At this time, we would like to thank the mirror, white wall, floor and tile of the toilet for filling the light of the reflector, which will weaken the shadow of people's face (such as the wrinkles at the cheekbones under the eyes and the shadow caused by acne pits), make the face smoother and younger, and make the eyes look brighter and radiant.

The lighting in fitting rooms and barbershops is similar to that in toilets, with strong warm yellow light and fill light, and these shops have more lights and fill light than toilets, even more beautiful than toilets.

Head-up lamps used for indoor photography (such as 0-30 degree angle, flash of film and television lamp with soft box or soft screen, annular beauty fill light), and head-up warm-tone lamps after 4 pm on sunny days, their angles and light quality will weaken people's facial shadows, improve skin quality and make people beautiful.

However, the lighting in the living room, or the outdoor light on cloudy days, is soft, and the soft light itself is weak, so the mirror wall and the ground can't reflect too much light to make up the light. Most of the walls and the ground in the living room and outdoor are matte, and the light in the empty place is scattered, so the reflection effect is not as strong as that of the tiles in the small bathroom, and the facial shadow can't be weakened.

The direct sunlight at noon on a sunny day will make the facial shadows particularly exaggerated, and the skin will be darker, rougher and oily.

To sum up, these three lights will make people ugly.

Therefore, it is the most moderate and closest to the comprehensive average evaluation of all kinds of light by naked eyes to choose the light in the shadow of outdoor sunny days.

(5) Why does the mobile phone still look fatter than the naked eye when it photographs itself in the mirror?

A friend said that since the mirror is real, you should take a picture of yourself in the mirror with your mobile phone and turn it over with ps, which should be closer to reality.

However, when you actually shoot it like this, you will find that it is still fatter than what you see with the naked eye.

Why?

To this end, I specially made an experiment: let a friend look in the mirror, and I photographed him in the mirror with my mobile phone.

It turns out that the photo is fatter than yourself.

I think the reason is that photos are flat, but real people are three-dimensional, and flat things are bigger than three-dimensional things.

Generally speaking, everyone must fully trust the mirror! You are the real you in the mirror (except concave mirror). Although you and the real you in the mirror turn left and right, it doesn't matter to others. Just because you are too sensitive and harsh on yourself, you feel that your facial features or face are a little crooked after the photo is turned left and right.

30% mirror beautification is a rumor. No scientific papers support this argument. There have been countless articles on the internet to refute rumors.

"Good-looking people look good no matter how they take pictures, and the reason why photos are not good-looking is because people are ugly" is also wrong. As an example, Liu Yifei, a top beauty, has not been photographed. gettyimage vision china website has a bunch of ugly photos taken by beautiful stars because of poor light, bad angle and wrong lens focus.

In the future, if someone asks you to take photos without P, you can not give them, and then send him my article, telling him that photos without P can't reflect people's true value! (Of course, there are too many P's. )

(6) Which is more real, looking in the mirror at close range or looking in the mirror at a distance?

When you look in the mirror, you will find that if you look in the mirror at close range, your face will be smaller and your skin will be better. Looking in the mirror from a distance, my face is bigger and my skin is worse.

Why?

Because when you are close to the mirror, you are closer to the light source that reflects and fills the light in the mirror, so the light filling effect is better and the skin becomes better. But in reality, when you meet others, there is no lighting engineer to fill the light for you (hint, you can bring your own fill light effect when you meet people in shopping malls or barber shops, because the lighting in these places is specially designed to make people beautiful. . . . Never choose to meet outside in the hot sun, it will make people look ugly! Don't meet in a dark place on a cloudy day, it will also make people ugly! If you can only meet outdoors, it is recommended to choose a place where the lighting floor can reflect light! )

Moreover, compared with looking at the mirror from a distance, the distance between the middle of the face (eyes, nose and mouth) and the periphery of the face (face) is more obvious, that is, the distance from the mirror is more obvious, so the face far from the mirror will be smaller, similar to the self-timer effect of the wide-angle lens in front of the mobile phone, which is not realistic enough.

Therefore, looking at the mirror from a distance is closer to the true self in the eyes of others.

Unless you meet a stranger and sit very close at first, the first impression is the close-up effect, otherwise the first impression of others is the effect of looking at the mirror at close range.

When couples kiss and make out, both sides are very close, and each other's skin reflects light for the other side. At this time, the other person in the other person's eyes is the effect of looking at the mirror at close range, which will become more beautiful and further promote "beauty is in the eye of the lover." . . .

To sum up, concave mirror+beautiful lighting in the bathroom+looking in the mirror at close range will really make people look beautiful, but we can't generally say that "the mirror beautifies 30%", because the correct use of pure flat mirror+ordinary light+looking in the mirror at a distance will not make people look beautiful, and it is close to their true self.

(7) Which is more real, wearing glasses or looking in the mirror with contact lenses?

Some friends reacted that wearing contact lenses to look in the mirror made the object bigger and the face bigger.

This is because the concave mirror lens of myopia glasses can reduce the object, and the farther the lens is from the eye, the more obvious the reduction effect is. The lenses of frame glasses are at a distance from the eyes, while contact lenses are attached to the eyes, so contact lenses are more realistic.

The reason why we think that wearing contact lenses will make things bigger is because we are used to wearing frame glasses for a long time to see shrinking objects. If we wear contact lenses for a long time and never wear frame glasses again, we will adapt and no longer feel that objects are getting bigger.