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Mirrors also present you with a strange, two-and-a-half dimensional image, where there's still some feeling of depth. Movement, too, could be part of why you in a mirror is more attractive (or less hideous, at least) than you in a photograph. Then there's the level of detail in a reflection - if you're trying to see one particular part of your face, you'll move closer to the mirror instinctively. Example: photos can tend to make the top of my head look completely bald, simply because of the distance that they're taken at. A reflection (and, hopefully, real life) presents a slightly different picture, as I'll alter the image as required.
Posing for photos knocks things askew, too - smiling is one of those things that you tend to do without thinking, and doing it on demand is virtually impossible. You become horribly self-aware - notice how those photographs of you as a kid, which were posed, never have the 'smiling problem'? The trick seems to be not to even attempt it in posed photographs.
Probably told this story before. Was looking through some amateur photographs from a friend's wedding and came across one with a group of a few mates sitting together in the pub. Started taking the piss out them one by one, starting with the guy on the far left. When I got the last person I couldn't figure out who it was. He was squinting at the camera, obviously very drunk, and looked about 15 years older than the others.
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