Have you ever noticed that in pictures your face looks somewhat different from the mirror?

Whether you are examining selfies or photographs taken by others, there is always something about your appearance in photographs.

The mystery struck me when I was at home and decided that after looking in the mirror, I looked at myself well enough. I must have photographed about fifty, and almost every one of them I disliked. My nose seemed ten times twisted more than usual, and I could think of everything. But I still looked perfect in the mirror and wondered why I can't convert my face well into my screen.

As it happens, there are some reasons for this.

We think of a mirror picture.

One important reason is that pictures often show exactly the opposite of the mirror. The resulting picture captures your face as it appears to others when you use some other devices (but not all) or the front-face iPhone camera. The same applies to cameras on mobile phones that are not.

It can be a little weird to see us on the back, as Nolan Feeney pointed out in a 2014 Atlantic article, as our faces are not exactly symmetrical. Some characteristics or distinctive markings do not appear in the photos as they do in the mirror and can throw us away. In my anecdote I rarely notice that the skew goes in the opposite direction when I look in the reflection, but in the photographs, it's always what I see first of all. I don't know.

Jerry Perry, a Canadian Photographer based in Hamilton, Ontario, said: "People's upset looking, and they think everyone sees it upside down, which is really weird. "Seeing is like lies."

We like our known faces

We know our faces best because we see them in the mirror and therefore prefer the reflection picture, which is only based on the exposure principle, which suggests that we like to face something over and over again. "It becomes a strong conviction when you look at yourself in the mirror. You've got that knowledge. Prefer family races. The Media Psychological Research Center Director, Pamela Rutledge told The Atlantic You have set a preference for your face back in 2014.

Naturally, as Perry pointed out, we also see ourselves in motion as we look at our faces in the mirror.

"In a still picture you can take a lot of detail," said Perry. In real life: "Thou art moving all the time; thou art flouted, thou focuses not on each hive because thou wilt not do it."

In the same way that you can in a digital photo, you can't zoom in on your face. (Superficial mirrors are great to remove your perceived defects, but not the same ones.)

It can be technical as well

The way people see photos can be altered by different camera lenses. For instance, Perry said he'd pick one longer lens because "the smaller, the wider it'll make your face." Perry said if anyone's looking slugger.

There also comes into play a person's proximity to the camera. The closest features of the lens - such as the nose - are highlighted. And usually we are closer to the camera when we take a selfie than if we take a photo of another person.

However, at the end of the day, the way we show up in photos is like what we see throughout the world. And that's not bad. And that's not bad. Indeed, studies show that others, as opposed to the self-image, generally like the version you see.

Then take a selfie and go ahead.