I have not seen this mentioned anywhere else, so I will mention it as it crosses my mind again. (Actually, it crossed my mind yesterday when I posted a recent mirror selfie.)
Years ago, when I started taking mirror selfies, I liked the results, but I always thought something was wrong with the photo. I did not look quite right.
A mirror selfie depicts the opposite of reality. What appears on the left in a mirror selfie is actually on the right in the real world and vice versa.
Since no face is perfectly symmetrical, that is, the right and left sides of a face are not exactly the same, it makes perfect sense why a mirror selfie does not look right. That's because the face is flipped horizontally from how it really appears.
To fix a mirror selfie so that it more closely reflects reality, use a photo manipulation app to flip the image horizontally. (In Photoshop, select Image > Image Rotation > Flip Canvas Horizontal to fix a mirror selfie.)
The accompanying photos show a mirror selfie before and after flipping the photo horizontally.
Now my mirror selfies look quite right!
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| Wearing Ted Baker London. |
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| Actor Romain Duris in the 2014 French film The New Girlfriend. |
Amazing isn't it? You smile looks more of a smile!
ReplyDeleteThe image of myself that I see most often is the one in the mirror. Therefore, backward looks normal to me! I always flip my photos to the correct orientation, but I'm not convinced it always improves them.
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