#Camera lens distortion of face professional

ThatР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s really nice for taking landscapes and capturing a lot of the scene. See, a wide-angle lens will allow you to see a larger slice of the scene in front of you. ItР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s just a short-cut way to talk about the phenomenon. And thatР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s sorta true, but not entirely true. So how can we understand how a smart phone camera is distorting our face, and can we use that to our advantage/disadvantage?Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋirst, remember itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s the distance, not the lens width Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ ItР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s a common belief that selfies are distorted because cell phone cameras use really wide angle lenses. So Why and How does a Selfie Cause Distortion? Remember this Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ anything close to the camera is going to look larger, and anything farther from the camera is going to look smaller, and the brain wonР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t correct for it in a photo like it would in person. So we know perspective is different in photos. (BTW: In-camera forced perspective is how Peter Jackson made a good chunk of The Lord of the Rings and you should look that up because itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s very cool to see behind the scenes.) This phenomenon/technique is called forced perspective.Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В®x: Yes, I know that the modelР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s hand is not larger than her head when she extends it toward me in real life. Our brains are always making allowances for spatial relationships between objects.Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В But a camera (mono-vision, just the one Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎв„ўeyeР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎС™) can change that, making things seem out of proportion to each other. A camera is not like human eyes, which can view an entire scene in stereo and use the brain to process it and take relative distance/perspective into account. The camera doesnР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t just (as a friend of mine asked me) Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎв„ўrecord whatР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s there.Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎС™ Far from it, the camera distorts everything, all the time, and the photographer does too Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ thatР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s our job. Every photo in existence is altered and constrained by many factors, including the camera itself, the focal length of the lens we use, lighting and posing of the subject and the perspective from which the photo was taken. (Nor would we want that, even if it did exist.) All photos are lies, distortions of the truth, and that goes doubleР В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В triple for selfies.

#Camera lens distortion of face professional

You have to understand that as a professional portrait photographer I donР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t believe thereР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s any such thing as a Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎв„ўrealР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎС™ photo of a person-a photo that shows the human face or form exactly as it is. (If youР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›re a techy/camera person and you want to Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎв„ўWell, actuallyР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р вЂ™Р’В¦Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎС™ me about anything in this article, donР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t.) All Photographs are Lies I have tried my best to explain this in lay terms without too much detail, but please do ask if something isnР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t clear. So I thought IР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›d do a demo here and explain a little bit about how cameras distort the face, so you can stop fretting, go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live your best life, and not worry about your nose really being that big, because it for sure is not. I work with people all the time to help them create photography that shows them at their best, so I was sorry to see recent articles that talked about people wanting plastic surgery because they think their nose looks too large in selfies, and they didnР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t understand that selfies are not accurate reflections of reality. In our looks-obsessed world, our appearance is a real currency, and itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s only natural that we should want to experiment with it, and make sure that we control it as much as we are able.

Selfies allow us to examine and re-create our own image in a way that we feel comfortable with. Selfies have the power to make us feel great, or Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ on the days where we canР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t find our angle Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ make us feel rotten. No, a selfie is a carefully composed photo, in all the best ways. Not weirdly lit, from an awkward angle and snorting at a joke like the photos other people take of us. The lure of the selfie is the enticing idea that we might be seen by the rest of the world in the same way that we see ourselves.Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В At the right angle, in the right light, with the right expression.