Why am I ugly in the photo?

Do you want to say it every time you see your photo? Is that me in this photo? How ugly! ? This may also be a depressing thing for many photographers. After taking photos for customers, I think the photos are not bad, but the customers feel terrible. Why? Photographer Duncan David gave a short speech at TED, and the culprit turned out to be the exposure effect!

When you browse a friend's photo album online, you suddenly see yourself in a photo? I am ugly. When you press the shutter, really? What about you? Kidnapped and replaced with fake ones? What about you? At this time, you will ask yourself: Do I really look like this? You really look like that. You look like yourself in the photo, but there is always something wrong, but don't worry, we have a set of theories to explain this problem.

Why do you hate seeing yourself in photos? The answer is a mirror. Some people may have heard of this theory. EDW· Lynch released a video about laughing squid: photographer Duncan David used to be a lecturer at ted and did something about it. Perception, mirrors and making us hate ourselves in photos? The valley of terror theory.

How do we see ourselves? What tools do we use to perceive ourselves? This process is not like the way any camera perceives us. We look at ourselves in the mirror. This is a very personal vision, and it is the only person in the world who has this vision. No matter who captured it with what camera, it will never be the same as our own vision.

So photographer Duncan David's theory is that when we see our photos, we will have a magical visual sense, and feel like ourselves, but there is always something wrong, and this little difference makes us feel resistant.

Someone did this experiment, and it was in 1977. In a place called. Inverted image and exposure effect hypothesis? Psychologists Theodore H Tammy, Marshall Demo and Geoffrey Knight explained:? Compared with what people see in photos, that is, what they really look like, they are more inclined to agree with what they look like in the mirror. ? But what is really interesting about this study lies in the exploration of these psychologists: Why do we find ourselves more attractive in the mirror? As the title of this study points out, this sum is called. Exposure effect? (also called? Limited contact effect? Pure exposure effect).

Exposure effect was first put forward by psychologist Robert Zajonc of Stanford University in 1960s. Simply put, exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon, which means that we will prefer what we are familiar with. This effect has been proved to be true, and it is not limited to a cultural environment, but a cross-cultural psychological phenomenon, even in other species.

So when someone says that we hate ourselves in photos, the culprit is actually the exposure effect. Of course, the exposure effect is very important: is it a very personal experience? In other words, only you will feel much uglier than the real person in the photo, and you should be gratified. These researchers also did some small surveys and found that when your friends and relatives look at your photos, they don't think you are ugly in the photos, only you think so.

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