Even though it was made by a professional, I still don't like it

A friend of mine's phone is full of captured moments, because she likes to look back at them and relive them again and again. Nostalgia is not a bad thing. However, when he not only takes photos, but becomes a character in the picture, he doesn't look at the photos with nearly as much enthusiasm. He just doesn't like it.

Now that we received the super family photos after my birthday, we threw ourselves into looking at them with great enthusiasm. It's just that I didn't like the photos of myself (and that's an understatement), but my 12-year-old daughter absolutely blew her mind when she saw the ones of her.

While I saw all the family members in the photos as they are in real life, I did not see myself as what was looking at me in the mirror. I wondered why this is?

The interesting thing is that when we were getting ready for the photo shoot, I was perfectly fine. At least that's how I started, but after seeing the pictures, I was disappointed. Not in professional photography. In myself. I didn't like the sight, but of course I didn't think too much about it. This is me, the way I am. Acting on the principle that if you don't like it, don't look at it, I focused more on my family members.

How is it possible that even though we feel satisfied with our appearance, looking back from a photo, the same appearance is nowhere near what the mirror showed.

Let's just think that the mirror doesn't show our reality either, but its reflection. Since this is the only thing we always see, this image becomes familiar to us. In other words, if we are satisfied with what is looking back from the mirror, it is merely our reflection. And when we see the photo taken of us, it looks different, very different. So weird. In this case, we can list many mistakes that we do not like in a picture. And then we haven't even talked about the small or even major distortions that the lenses are responsible for. It doesn't matter whether the captured moment is beneficial for us or not. The filter is also not a solution to produce more attractive images, since it has little to do with reality. The light of the flash not only illuminates, but it can cast shadows on the face and make us look older.

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(Source: marmalade.co.hu | Pictures: pixabay.com)