Cognitive Dissonance
I've been doing some thinking since the glamour shoot pictures started going up. What I perceive as "what I look like" and what the cameras capture are different. Really really different. Which is odd, given that I look in mirrors all the time and don't experience this dissonance. My initial theory is that it's a non-moving thing. Much of how I perceive anyone's face is by how it moves.
This isn't a "I think I look worse/better than the camera takes" - it's like it's a different person entirely, one that may only be tangentially related to me. It's often like looking at pictures of someone I have heard about, maybe, but don't know.
I need to do some more thinking on this before I can come up with anything coherant, but I figured I should toss it in the brain stack for percolating before I walked away from it going "Ah, well - yah - what else is new?"
Hmm...need to be able to verbalise what I think I look like, what I am seeing in the photos, and where I feel the difference in appearance is. And not be wedded to my "motion" theory.
This isn't a "I think I look worse/better than the camera takes" - it's like it's a different person entirely, one that may only be tangentially related to me. It's often like looking at pictures of someone I have heard about, maybe, but don't know.
I need to do some more thinking on this before I can come up with anything coherant, but I figured I should toss it in the brain stack for percolating before I walked away from it going "Ah, well - yah - what else is new?"
Hmm...need to be able to verbalise what I think I look like, what I am seeing in the photos, and where I feel the difference in appearance is. And not be wedded to my "motion" theory.