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[–] chatroom@lemm.ee 57 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Short distance to subject and wide angle camera lens makes bad photos

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours 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.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Every cellphone camera is objectively terrible at capturing human features

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours 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)

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 0 points 5 hours ago

Not necessarily

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

You said it better than me.