There can never be enough said regarding the importance of proper lighting. Learning "where" to look is almost as critical as good lightingOriginally Posted by kimdl93
There can never be enough said regarding the importance of proper lighting. Learning "where" to look is almost as critical as good lighting
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Lots of factors influence mirrors and photos/videos.
In a photo or looking at yourself on your laptop screen when you are making videos or taking pictures, the image you see is “correct” with reference to “left and right sides”. When you raise your right hand, the hand raised in the image is on the left side of the screen (or photo), as people see it (you) in real life.
Left/right reversal- the mirror reflects a reversed image of you. Look in a mirror and raise your right hand. The mirror image of you is raising the hand on the right side of the mirror. If that was a real person facing you raising their right hand, the raised hand would be on the other side. Try shaking hands with yourself in a mirror. It does not happen that way in real life. So in a mirror, you are always seeing a reversed image of yourself.
If you want to know what you really look like (to others)…put two mirrors perpendicular to each other (push them together into a corner). Or just buy one of these…
http://www.truemirror.com/
Foreshortening- the distortion of perspective.
In photography/video… Like a standing person where the upper part looks closer and larger than the lower part…and the person looks shorter than they really are. (The cause is the camera angle is too high at a relatively close distance).
Gee, do you think this has anything to do with the appearance of being well-endowed in a porn video!?!
Look into a mirror and hold out your hand. Look how close (and big) your hand looks compared to your body and how short your arm looks between the two. That is foreshortening.
So as usual, defining “reality” is always based upon individual perception of it.
Add/remove/adjust the angle, color and lighting and anything can happen (especially when you turn out all of the lights,).
No wonder we have difficulty figuring out who we really are
Last edited by eluuzion; 11-05-2012 at 01:43 AM.
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Mirror or not, the picture I see is usually disappointing to say the least.
Work on your elegance,
and beauty will follow.
I've gotten all made up, look in the mirror and say "wow I look gorgeous tonight". Then I look at the first couple of photos and say "gee I look hideous". It's weird isn't it? Anyway, make sure the lighting is good, take a lot of pictures and consider using a diffuser filter to soften things up.
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