Discrepancy between mirror and photo

[Mike_Rojas]

You ever notice that how you look in the mirror isn't quite how you look in a photo? I thought I looked pretty good in the mirror, took some pictures with my digital cam, but when I saw them, all I could say is "what a fat ass".

Oh well, I'll diet down later.

 

[The Red Dragon]

Mirrors are more accurate than pixelated digicam photos

 

[gonelifting]

You ever notice that how you look in the mirror isn't quite how you look in a photo? I thought I looked pretty good in the mirror, took some pictures with my digital cam, but when I saw them, all I could say is "what a fat ass".

Oh well, I'll diet down later.

Exactly. lol I did`nt take pics for a LONG time cause I was`nt ready. Then when I finally was ready for pics, Damn, I was way off. I got ALOT more work to do.

I think in the mirror you focus in on your bodyparts, Unlike the pic it is a wider view of EVERYTHING. IMO

 

[The_Eviscerator]

You ever notice that how you look in the mirror isn't quite how you look in a photo? I thought I looked pretty good in the mirror, took some pictures with my digital cam, but when I saw them, all I could say is "what a fat ass".

Oh well, I'll diet down later.

It is tough to get the right lighting indoors for a good photo. I would suggest taking photos early in the morning 8:30 or so or later in the Day 5:00... the lighting is just right at these times and you can get a good accurate shot.

 

[Mike_Rojas]

This is the best of them

Too much beer

 

[sk*]

In mirrors, it looks better cause the distance gets doubled. If the distance gets doubled, you look more cut.

Also, the more light there is the less cuts you will see. If you take a pic without the light of the camera, it will look better.

-sk

 

[Mike_Rojas]

Yeah, lighting is everything. The flash just washes everything out. I can't figure out how to turn the damn thing off

 

[revexrevex]

Youre standing too close to the camera... go outside during sunny afternoon, and get tanned, and take a pic..... you will look totally different man

 

[Him1]

Damn, I'm just the opposite. I keep a picture of me in my training log, one that my wife took of me when I was outside playing w/ my son w/ my shirt off. I remember looking in the mirror, around the time the picture was taken, and thinking I was fat even though I had my bf tested at about 8%(at the end of cutting for summer, last year). The picture showed all my abs and striations everywhere. I keep the picture there to remind me that I don't look as bad as I think I do.

 

[coolcolj]

photos don't lie...

human perception does

 

[Zander1983]

For me, the mirror always looks so many times worse than a photo.

 

[gonelifting]

For me, the mirror always looks so many times worse than a photo.

Damn, Not me. I`ll hit a most muscular in the mirror or double bi shot, It looks great, but It never comes out that good in pics.

I gotta try the keep the flash off thing. lol

 

[Zander1983]

I must have some psychological issues then

Last night at a family get-together my grandmother's brother said to me, upon shaking my hand, "please don't hurt me!"

I was just wearing a polo shirt that was slightly tight around my skinny arms.

To average people we're big and lean, even though we think we're skinny and fat (and we are, you know ).

 

[tad69]

Damn you lard ass!























Just kidding! you are looking good. Keep it up.

 

[WalkingBeast]

Nice size on the arms

 

[IronLion]

Rojas you are looking ten times as thick as when i first saw pictures of you....you have made incredible natural progress. I think your issue is that you see yourself everyday and don't see anything but how much work you have left to do instead of how much you have already accomplished....jmo

 

[onerepmaximum]

I look at it like this. The image in the mirror is the only one that you yourself ever sees. The camera is what everyone else sees. I can be in contest shape at 4 percent body fat and still feel like a piece of shit after I see a pic. I think I'm a bigaholic.

 

[joltman]

Just learn how to use photoshop and the problem is solved

 

[jerkbox]

it's all about lighting, and also, the level of the camera.

think about it, you are looking at yourself in a mirror from eye level.

the shot is usually taken from eye level height, with no flash and some sort of overhead light source.

but yeah, even then I still think I look better in the mirror....especially from a straight on front shot.

 

[from zero]

it's all about lighting, and also, the level of the camera.

Word. I think I look better in the mirror. But, once in a while, I've have some kickass lighting when I take a pic. I'll still look like poop, but it's less poopy than normal.

 

[onerepmaximum]

You can say "shit" if you want to.

 

[from zero]

You can say "shit" if you want to.

lol

 

[Ogrelleh]

I noticed the same shit a couple days ago because I have some BS contest with people on the net for getting the biggest arms and all the pics are posted on some site and I looked in the mirror and thought "oh shit I'm gonna wreck these guys" then every pic I took looked like total shit, like I lost an inch on my biceps.
I think it has to do with the way that when you look in the mirror at your arm for example, you look at the mirror at maybe a 45 degree angle then it bounces to the arm in real life (well it's the other way around toward your eye but whatever) plus there is the refraction from the mirror that distorts things. I'm just talking size, I think if you look cut in the mirror but not photos it's the bathroom lighting.
Maybe stand in front of the mirror, and put the camera where the mirror is and take the pic so it is the exact lighting.
I was trying that though without much luck.

 

[Legion Kreinak2]

I always noticed when I look at myself in the mirror, I don't appear to be all that cut at all, I see the reflection of myself, and see that I look pretty flat.

However, I realized something, and have a little hypothesis. Could just be me though...

My friend has a pair of sunglasses he wears alot. We were sitting down one day and I was looking at my reflection through them, through a curved lense. I noticed that, posing the same way I would in the mirror, you can see a good bunch of cuts on my arms. Now, I always think I look too small, or flabby/flat rather then cut. However, most people I know tell me I don't at all, and that I look rather lean.

Could this be that I'm looking at my reflection on a flat surface most often (the typical bathroom mirror, for me), but my shape is more true when I see it in the curved lenses of my friends sunglasses. By true shape I mean, how other people actually see me, considering the human eyeball is also curved like the sunglasses?

Just a thought, maybe a bit of a stretch, but still - it makes sense to me.