Tuesday, 17 December 2019

[MISC] Why do i look so much worse on camera than in real life? I've done a test to find out why.

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For a while this question has been plaguing me. Is it just because the camera tries to add contrast and light where there isn't any? A few friends and I decided to do a test to figure it out.A lot of posts have been made on this, but the most popular answers are always things like "your view of yourself is based on your mirror. Your mirror is in a very specific set of visual conditions. Other people see you in different lighting and conditions daily, just like your camera." OK, anyone who thinks just a little can easily tell that this is false. You can easily take a handheld mirror everywhere with you. And i do. You can also see your skin easily without a mirror.To test, we took a dog-awful picture of my skin (yes i have bug bites and yes i need to shave) and tried to turn it back into what we see in real life. These are our results:Original: https://i.imgur.com/IAD4hYnr.jpg​https://preview.redd.it/6egsrs9yba541.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=824b5649eb93630b7604afb2afe886b03a2ee44eTrue to life (as close as we could get it): https://i.imgur.com/PpmbmGYr.jpg​https://preview.redd.it/buwpalbzba541.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82d77382882aaca3050ed0c3d3dfffed541fb827As you can see, the camera added a lot of contrast, clarity, noise, light, and cold temperature.My suggestion to anybody that wants their pictures to look just like you do in real life, is to download the Polarr app or a similar professional image filtering app, and take many pictures in many different lighting conditions. After each picture, stay in the same spot, position and conditions you took it in and edit the picture to look like what you see in real life. Once done, save a preset for that lighting condition and move on to the next. Then, every time you take a selfie, just open your picture in your image editor and use the filter preset you made that works best with your current lighting :D
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