Real Pictures

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I'm going to ask.

Does anyone have trouble determinig emotions from real pictures?

I RP here and there on other sites. And these days there is this new craze of using real photos for their character appearance. These real photos include any numerous pictures of celebrities and models.

And I have so much trouble with those pictures. To me they seem robotic. I cannot tell the images emotion.

But for another reason, I believe because it is exaggerated and emphasized more with the usage of color and background piece, I can tell the emotion of a drawn image. Or a semi realistic human like let's say a doll.

Real pictures as opposed to _______?

I think I know what you mean, but I am not sure.

I always have trouble figuring out emotions in pictures. Sometimes I might assume the obvious that a smile simply means happy. Often times that is overly simplistic and/or flat-out wrong. I am even worse with more obscure facial expressions (ie. I would have no idea how to read the facial expression in your avatar).

Drawn images or dolls.

The obvious ones are easy; the subtle ones are harder.

My real problem is determining emotions from video or face-to-face, when I can't look carefully at the image and check all the indicators to make sure I have it right. There's just not enough time.

When I was doing the BBC Brain Gender Test, I scored the lowest on that section. I think I got about 10 or 20% or something.

Oh?

That's good or bad?

Okay, that is not what I thought! Still, my answer remains the same though!

For me this picture: http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m50 ... /coal5.jpg

Seems very realistic and life like. But a lot of people oppose such pictures. But this is the only compromise I can make with them. Real pictures are really hard for me.

Also Little, the avatar is a picture of me. The one you can't read. Ha.

I get almost nothing from this photo. She does not appear angry and she seems engaged in the process of being viewed, but I can't be sure of the latter because the pupils of her eyes are obscured. I just need more information.

I tend to have an easier time with facial expressions in real life, than in pictures. My avatar is too small to see the faces, but we are also posing for a photo, so it's really hard to tell.

However, on tests, out of all the facial expression tests, I scored lowest on The Mind in the Eyes test and highest on this other facial expression test that I did. It showed the whole face, not just the eyes, so that could have been why I scored so much higher.

Yup. Reading cartoon faces is much easier than realistic looking ones.

Last time I tried to draw a realistic looking face, it won the award for "most ugly."

That her is actually a he. That's a boy in the picture example I gave.

I like watching cartoons a lot more than I like trying to watch "real life" dramas, partially because it's a lot easier for me to tell what a cartoon character is feeling as opposed to a model or actor.

As for a lot of pictures, I just take them as "aesthetically pleasing" (assuming they are) and leave it at that. I don't try to read in a bunch of emotion.

Then I got even less than I thought.

Naw, he's quite androgynous. Could be either. The photo also has an odd perspective and some blurring, which gives him sort of a porcelain-doll effect--surreal and somewhat uncanny-valley.

I kind of like looking at androgynous people. I think they're interesting and pretty.

You perceive the uncanny valley effect?

I should just start a thread about this at some point.