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[quote=Anonymous]Really depends on the photo. Some photos are taken with horrible lighting that can distort features or change how your coloring looks in a very unflattering way. Also camera angles can be deceptive. I have an angular face that photographs very well BUT if I take a selfie I have to stretch my arms very far away and angle my down and away from the camera because otherwise I get a fish eye effect that makes my nose look huge and the rest of my face look small. My face never looks like that in a photo taken by someone else, even from just a few feet away, but if the lens is too close to my face, it really skews the dimensions of my face.

Also, most photos wash me out at least a little because I'm pale with light hair. It's better than it used to be because cameras are smarter, but for instance if I don't wear brow pencil in a photograph, I sometimes look like I have no eyebrows. IRL, I go without brow pencil most days (I'm not a big makeup person) and you can see my eyebrows. But they disappear in photos because of light reflection and also there is not enough contrast between my brows and skin to show on camera.

Teeth are another thing that sometimes don't photograph very accurately. One reason people have become obsessive about whitening teeth is because cameras distort whites, which can lead to natural teeth looking dingy or yellow next to a white fabric. Even if IRL, your teeth look about the same shade of white as your shirt, on camera the fabric will be more reflective because it's all one shade, whereas your teeth usually have some gradation to them that will make them look either more gray or more yellow. For this reason I try to avoid wearing white in photos unless I have recently whitened my teeth a lot. Also, sometimes excess saliva in your mouth can make your teeth look bad -- it's another thing for light to reflect off of causing weird shadows and emphasizing any lack of symmetry. A person talking to you would be unlikely to notice those things, but in a photo the light will exaggerate them.

Cameras often catch flesh in unpleasant states because it's a still photo. I sometimes get photos of myself that make my neck look wrinkly simply because I'm turning my head too far in one direction and it creates a fold. Posed photographs often catch weird muscle straining or awkward positions because people are working to hold a position. On the other hand, photos that catch you mid-speaking or blinking are often really unflattering, but IRL those are micro expressions that most people can't really even see.[/quote]

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