Yes, I think focal length and lighting are the main culprits:
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chatroom@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Short distance to subject and wide angle camera lens makes bad photos
jwt@programming.dev 6 days ago
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In addition to this (the effects of which are far more pronounced than the ‘mirror image’ theory btw — flipping a camera shot doesn’t tend to make a strong difference after all), a photo is just, well, a snapshot. It can’t pick up the subtle movements in expressions that add to your visual personality. If we all went about with a static photo expression on our faces, we’d look weird as fuck.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 days ago
Not necessarily
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
You said it better than me.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 week ago
Ooooooh.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Every cellphone camera is objectively terrible at capturing human features
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Helps if you angle the camera down slightly, actually funny story about AI… There was this site a few years ago that would give you a masculine/femanine score based on a selfie, I discovered all it was really checking was the angle of the face because men tend to take photos straight on and women know to take the photo with your face at an angle. (But NEVER an upward angle)