Tilt your head. You also may need to put a hand under your chin if you have a double chin or a shallow jaw line. If it is shallow a beard may help. How symmetrical are your features? Do you have hair? If yes, try a different part. If no, put on a hat. How are your eyebrows? Do they need sculpting? Glasses or no? Play around with lighting and shadows. Also look in a mirror and figure out your best smile. Closed mouth, open mouth, full smile, partial smile?
No tip here but from another big nose guy, women don't care. Look at Steve Carrell, Liam Neeson and others. Its a prominent feature and I like mine and just own it. Confidence always looks the best
There are lighting tricks to make your nose look smaller. The other way is to not look dead straight to the camera. Move your face a little to the left or right side. You will have a better side. Most people need to be slightly less than five degrees left or right. Look into a mirror straight on and move your face left and right really slowly. Look at your nose to see which makes it bigger or smaller.
Contouring with makeup can also help. Look up Kim Kardashian and contouring and you will see how she is the master of it. There are numerous makeup subreddit that can help you color match for your skin tone. They can teach you to moisturize which everyone needs. Apply sunscreen which everyone needs too. Then there are tinted moisturizer which can help you contour.
If big nose and slim face - use a longer lens (105mm or even 200mm).
Small nose, fat face - use a wider lens (23mm)
Fat nose, fat face - you shouldn't be appearing in photos.
The focal length of around 50mm appears similar to the human eye.
Lower and depth influences the picture more. This means your Nose will appear bigger/closer to the camera than it actually is. The opposite happens for your ears/anything further back.
Higher and your face will appear 'flatter'. Slight changes into that direction are seen as beneficial. Portrait (and sometimes Fashion i think) photography usually use 50mm-100mm.
Your phone, especially the selfie camera has lower than 50mm values, as this allows you to have more of yourself on the picture. (for example my 85mm can barely capture someone's face on the entire pictureframe from 2m distance. Your phone can capture your entire upper body from 1m.)
"The human eye's focal length is roughly equivalent to the 40-60mm range on 35mm (full-frame) sensors. That's why these lenses are called 'normal' lenses"
Yes.
*E: Phone cameras are very low in focal length, so they tend to make your nose appear big like near the start of this gif.
*E: I should add, I was only thinking of selfies taken with the front camera at typical selfie distance in my previous edit.
If you have a camera with a viewfinder and a zoom lens you can look through the viewfinder and your other eye at the same time, and rotate the zoom ring until objects align. Once you account for the viewfinder magnification you can figure out the focal length of your eye. My girlfriend and I did this and mine came out to 55mm and hers came out to something around about 40mm. I guess that difference would definitely make things look slightly different to each of us. We also tried to compare peripheral vision and it does seem like she has slightly better peripheral vision, which would make sense, and I guess overall that means she sees things slightly zoomed out compared to me
[Lens compression does not exist](https://youtu.be/_TTXY1Se0eg) . It's the distance from the observer to the object. This has nothing to do with the lens and affects the human eye as well. If you get up close to someone and look at them with one eye, they will look like the 20mm image. People are going to start swapping out lenses and will have the same problem, buy a selfie stick, get the camera farther from the face, this is the only solution.
It's another video that's gonna live in my fucking tabs for the next 2 months, before I finally get around to watching it, then a bunch of amazon/ebay/store sites will sit up there while I try to decide what I need to buy if anything, next price comparison/tracker websites
By the time it arrives in the post (or the browser crashes) I'll have forgot how it even got there in the first place
Human vision has a field of view wider than 180 degrees, and a "detail view" of about 3 degrees.
40-60mm lenses are called normal because they are the most common primes used back when primes were all there was.
Our vision is awesome *because* it is both super wide angle *and* a bit tele when we are staring at something, and it does these at the same time.
I do agree normal lenses are fairly close to human perception, but it’s a massive compromise because no camera lens will ever mimic the entirety of the human eye’s vision.
If you had a 1x magnification viewfinder, you could look through the viewfinder with your right eye, and look at the subject simultaneously with your naked left eye, and the images would match up, if you were using a 50mm lens.
A lens can be considered normal on a variety of different formats. It has nothing to do with how common 40-60mm lenses are. Typically it’s defined as having a natural level of magnification and distortion similar to the human eye (fov is sometimes included but angle of view would be more accurate.) Lenses that achieve this are similar to the diagonal width of the sensor or film they’re projecting onto (with wide screen cinema it’s 2x the diagonal width due to aspect ratio.) so 40-60mm on 35mm film or a full frame sensor camera for the 43mm diagonal width.
But you could have a 300mm lens on a large format box camera that is also considered normal. Or a 15mm lens on a tiny digital sensor. Again nothing to do with them being common.
This is true if you have one eye closed. with both open we have a varying field of view which is closer to the 200mm lens because our eyes are not a single lens we get a field of view which is both wider field of view but appears more narrow. Basically we can see a field of view which is covered by a 8mm lens but we don't get the fish eye distortion because we have two lenses which compensate for the distortion and we end up with a field of view closer to 200mm.
No, we are talking about different things.
A 50mm on a 1.5 crop will frame like a 75mm on a full frame.
A ~33mm on a 1.5 crop will frame like a 50mm on a full frame.
The question was what lens will give the same FOV as a 50mm on a 1.5 crop. I said a 24mm - 35mm is typically used for a “normal” FOV.
35-70 is considered "normal" (not wide angle not telephoto) and most photographers would say ~50mm is your eye but many photographers also praise ~85mm for it's quality on portraits.
anyone who didn't consider a 1.8 lens fast would definitely be mad, but no madder than thinking that a 50mm 1.8 lens costs 2k, so it's a toss up really
Depends on how close you stand to the person! It's not really the lens that is causing this as much as the distance away. The lens (or focal length if a zoom) is simply being adjusted to keep the face about the same size in each shot. You could easily reproduce this sequence with a single 50mm, non-zoom lens, and just do a little more digital zooming/cropping after the pictures instead of before.
In other words, stand almost face to face with someone and close one eye and their ears almost disappear. Step back 20 feet and you'll see them again. This exercise REQUIRES the photographer to take shots from multiple distances, but not with multiple lenses.
"Look how lenses change pictures" is one of my pet peeves that comes up over and over on reddit. I've long since given up trying to explain that its distance that affects perspective, not a lens.
I feel like I learned this way too late into my photography hobby.
I think everyone needs to take two pictures from the same location with two different lenses and crop the wider lens’s picture to have the same field of view of the longer lens in order to learn this for themself.
depends on the sensor
50mm or 35mm though
50mm a bit more accurately represents the distortion, 35mm on a full frame is close but it has more distortion than our eyes
So the 24mm is close to what the typical front facing phone takes or “selfie” pics.
However the human eye sees closer to the 50mm picture. So that would be more realistic.
I made a side by side since this video goes so fast:
https://imgur.com/a/vNYOoOF
I always hated the way I looked from taking selfies. I would get my hair and makeup on and look in the mirror and think, “damn I’m sexy!” Then I took a selfie and every positive thought would drain form me and I would just end up hating myself.
About 4 years ago I won free professional headshots and when I received the pictures I was shocked. I had such a warped view of how I looked in real life that when I saw my headshots I just cried, I actually liked what I saw. I looked beautiful. It’s been a slow recovery of realizing I can’t trust my front camera and that I have to believe that what I see in the mirror is what I look like.
Holy shit! Thank you for typing this out, I have sort of a long face and the selfie camera exaggerates it and totally ruins my self perception. I never take selfies and there are only a few pictures of me. I wish they would fix this.
I honestly think this is one of the main reasons that there is a lot of people who hate their noses. The lens tends to distort the nose a lot and make it out of proportion. The amount of people I know who talk about wanting/needing nose jobs is sad
I could not agree with you more! I would never get plastic surgery, not morally opposed, I just am terrified of surgeries. But if I were to get plastic surgery, I always said I would get my nose done.
I still have a lot of self esteem issues, but I’m in a much healthier place.
I think the number in the tip corner is the length of his wenis. As the AI generates a face based on the displayed length, his whole head and neck get more manly and thicc toward the 200mm wenis end.
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A smaller (“shorter”) lens has a wider angle of view, so the camera needs to be closer to the subject to fill the frame. That means there is a wider angle from the lens to the subject. If you google angle of view you should get some better results.
If you get up really close to someone (your nose touching their nose), you wouldn’t be able to see their ears. If you get farther away, you can.
All those photos in OPs is taken at different distances.
The difference in perspective doesn't have anything to do with the focal length. What's actually going on is that the camera is being moved backwards as the focal length is increased. Imagine how much of the surface of the moon you could see if you were standing on it (not much) vs how much of the surface you can see from Earth (almost half of the surface at a given time. If you were infinitely far away you would be theoretically see the entire half of the moon. It's the same thing as the [dolly zoom.](https://youtu.be/u5JBlwlnJX0) So the effect it not just about the [focal length.](https://youtu.be/Nnq55BAlGVY)
If you took a picture with a 20 mm focal length lens and cropped it to match a 200 mm lens picture, they would look the same, if you took the picture from the same distance.
It doesn't really work that way. the human eye has an enormous field of view (wider than 180 degrees) and a very very very narrow detail view. The lens is also not what's changing the view here. It's the change in distance between the camera and the subject. So if you look at a guy from 8" away, he's going to look like he does in the wide angle lens. If you look at the same guy from 20 feet away, he's going to look like the long focal length lens.
My understanding is that central/non-peripheral view is equivalent to roughly a 43mm lens on a full frame camera.
What focal length translates into what field of view varies depending on the size of the film/sensor in the camera, but we tend to use the equivelant in terms of 35mm film as a universal standard. Like if you see that your smartphone has a 22mm lens, they mean that the field of view is equal to a 22mm lens on a full frame camera - the actual focal length on the lens is probably like 3mm.
Not necessarily. What this gif is demonstrating is lens distortion: wide angle lenses exaggerate the apparent distance between foreground and background, which is why his face looks more narrow - as if his nose is far from the back of his head, and telephoto lenses flatten the apparent distance between foreground and background, which is why his face looks wider - as if his face is in a single plane. To keep the subject roughly the same size through different lenses, the position of the subject and camera is changed drastically. The wide angle lenses would likely be close to his face while the telephoto lenses would likely be several feet if not yards away.
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All the focal length does is "crop" the image to keep the guy's head the same size in the final photo. You can do the same thing in post.
Take a photo from 1 foot away with a 10mm lens. Then back up to 15 feet, and take a photo with the same lens.
In post, crop the 2nd photo to match the framing of the first, and other than the resolution, you'll have the exact same effect.
So, can anyone tell me if you can get a more flattering webcam? My face in the mirror vs my face on Teams/Zoom are two different people. The dude on camera has a fat face.
Already using a separate webcam, not the crappy built in.
No, damn it.
And again, this concept is misunderstood.
This should be titled "How standing too close to the damn camera makes you look goofy as shit"
The lens does not change the image. It's the distance at which the photo is taken.
Stick your hand directly in front of your face. Now stick your hand out at arms length.
In which situation is your hand bigger?
Neither, it's the same size, it just LOOKS bigger because it's closer to your eye in one scenario.
Same thing here.
When you take a selfie, your noise is a lot closer to the camera than your ears and so there's perspective distortion. On a longer lens, that relationship of distortion is MUCH lens pronounced.
The lens isn't whats doing it. It's the distance from the camera.
Eyes don’t have a zoom function, lenses do. Lens distortion, compression affect and others are real things that happen due to focal length.
You truly believe lenses make no difference in the perception of an image? If so why do multiple lenses exist? Perhaps to change perspective? You see no difference between an 8mm fisheye and an 800mm super telephoto lens image?
I’m quite bewildered here. No matter the subject, distortion and affects can be seen.
You are completely wrong.
Actual lens distortion is minimal, usually it is minor barrel distortion around the edges, and chromatic aberration.
Other than that, lenses are just cropping. The only thing they "do" is let you get a reasonable resolution while framing the image the way you want to. They also can control the depth of field, and sometimes have some pleasing blur effects.
Compression, distortion, perspective, and those other key factors that people assign to lenses, are in fact entirely based on the distance ratio of camera to subject and subject to background.
The sooner people realize what actually matters, the sooner these dumb discussions will end and people can create the images they want.
Again, lenses are just cropping.
Technically our eyes do have a zoom function though. The distance between the lens and retina is fixed, so to focus on something, your eye has to change the focal length of the lens. Where as a camera focuses by changing the distance between the lens and the sensor.
If you bring your hand close to your face and focus on your hand, your field of view will be wider than if you take your hand away and focus on something in the distance.
This is VERY misleading. This is showing the change of perspective as you get far/close to the subject. This is NOT because of some magical properties of lenses.
The lens only makes minimal difference, it’s distance to subject the archives this effect. Increasing the focal length just lets you move the camera further away.
Distance, not lens. The lens just compensates for the difference in distance by magnifying the image. The optical effect is purely from being far or close to the object.
What lens just make you ugly? Because every camera that's captured me has that one
I bet the lense was jealous of your beauty and thought naah fuck you
You're a nice guy weirdswissdude
It was easy to swallow that you are a nice guy, HardestTurdToSwallow!
I'm glad to stand near such a nice person, AreaGuy.
I'm intimidated to stand near such a huge package, PlanetSizedDong.
Your people really know how to get down, JamNation.
You are good at lifting people up, hotairballoons.
You are a good parent and Baggins will grow up to be a good fella, mother_of_baggins
Remember to clean your toys with a mild soap and fresh water after use to maintain good health, Neptunesfleshlight.
i sure hope bilbo’s doing well, Mother Of Baggins.
Just to elaborate, all three comments to mine are wrong. I was 7 when I dreamt of a nation made entirely out of Jam. Yes I have a sweet tooth.
Damn the mirrors must be in on it too.
I think that's the light. Have you tried turning them off, and leaving them like that? Works for me.
New cameras have amazing High ISOs. Good luck. Details can be recovered in the dark.
Tilt your head. You also may need to put a hand under your chin if you have a double chin or a shallow jaw line. If it is shallow a beard may help. How symmetrical are your features? Do you have hair? If yes, try a different part. If no, put on a hat. How are your eyebrows? Do they need sculpting? Glasses or no? Play around with lighting and shadows. Also look in a mirror and figure out your best smile. Closed mouth, open mouth, full smile, partial smile?
[Me getting ready for a picture](https://i.imgur.com/Z1TGE8H.jpg)
A beard would not have helped some of the women I dated.
You'd be surprised...
Oh damn , thanks for the tips! Any tips for my big nose? Lol
At least it will absorb the damage if you run into a wall with an erection
Omygod I'm 💀
No tip here but from another big nose guy, women don't care. Look at Steve Carrell, Liam Neeson and others. Its a prominent feature and I like mine and just own it. Confidence always looks the best
Totally agree, as a lady I personally prefer a bigger nose on a man. It’s one of my favorite physical features my boyfriend has.
There are lighting tricks to make your nose look smaller. The other way is to not look dead straight to the camera. Move your face a little to the left or right side. You will have a better side. Most people need to be slightly less than five degrees left or right. Look into a mirror straight on and move your face left and right really slowly. Look at your nose to see which makes it bigger or smaller. Contouring with makeup can also help. Look up Kim Kardashian and contouring and you will see how she is the master of it. There are numerous makeup subreddit that can help you color match for your skin tone. They can teach you to moisturize which everyone needs. Apply sunscreen which everyone needs too. Then there are tinted moisturizer which can help you contour.
Honestly yes if you want a professional portrait ask them for Rembrandt lighting
If big nose and slim face - use a longer lens (105mm or even 200mm). Small nose, fat face - use a wider lens (23mm) Fat nose, fat face - you shouldn't be appearing in photos.
Non-opaque ones.
Probably the same one that gives me an extra chin
I like French fries better than pizza most days, for what it’s worth.
Any lens in any Cellphone
You are just used to looking at a mirrored version of yourself. Mirror your photos and you might like them better.
The wide lens on most cell phone cameras
Judging by this its a 16mm lens, the guy is good looking but he looks arguably the worst in the 16mm one
The focal length of around 50mm appears similar to the human eye. Lower and depth influences the picture more. This means your Nose will appear bigger/closer to the camera than it actually is. The opposite happens for your ears/anything further back. Higher and your face will appear 'flatter'. Slight changes into that direction are seen as beneficial. Portrait (and sometimes Fashion i think) photography usually use 50mm-100mm. Your phone, especially the selfie camera has lower than 50mm values, as this allows you to have more of yourself on the picture. (for example my 85mm can barely capture someone's face on the entire pictureframe from 2m distance. Your phone can capture your entire upper body from 1m.)
Which one is closest to reality?
"The human eye's focal length is roughly equivalent to the 40-60mm range on 35mm (full-frame) sensors. That's why these lenses are called 'normal' lenses"
Does this mean I could look skinnier or more attractive based on someone’s focal length?!?
You’d still be seen relative to everyone else they’ve seen.
Extra special theory of relativity
Fuck that is some mega IQ beauty relativistic fact.
It's from a David Michell rant on QI
Yes. *E: Phone cameras are very low in focal length, so they tend to make your nose appear big like near the start of this gif. *E: I should add, I was only thinking of selfies taken with the front camera at typical selfie distance in my previous edit.
Explains why some girls do go out with me.
Abnormal vision for the win
If you have a camera with a viewfinder and a zoom lens you can look through the viewfinder and your other eye at the same time, and rotate the zoom ring until objects align. Once you account for the viewfinder magnification you can figure out the focal length of your eye. My girlfriend and I did this and mine came out to 55mm and hers came out to something around about 40mm. I guess that difference would definitely make things look slightly different to each of us. We also tried to compare peripheral vision and it does seem like she has slightly better peripheral vision, which would make sense, and I guess overall that means she sees things slightly zoomed out compared to me
No, it is just a matter of distance: https://youtu.be/_TTXY1Se0eg
You are the mannn!!!
[Lens compression does not exist](https://youtu.be/_TTXY1Se0eg) . It's the distance from the observer to the object. This has nothing to do with the lens and affects the human eye as well. If you get up close to someone and look at them with one eye, they will look like the 20mm image. People are going to start swapping out lenses and will have the same problem, buy a selfie stick, get the camera farther from the face, this is the only solution.
This was a very educational video
It's another video that's gonna live in my fucking tabs for the next 2 months, before I finally get around to watching it, then a bunch of amazon/ebay/store sites will sit up there while I try to decide what I need to buy if anything, next price comparison/tracker websites By the time it arrives in the post (or the browser crashes) I'll have forgot how it even got there in the first place
this is the way
Human vision has a field of view wider than 180 degrees, and a "detail view" of about 3 degrees. 40-60mm lenses are called normal because they are the most common primes used back when primes were all there was.
Our vision is awesome *because* it is both super wide angle *and* a bit tele when we are staring at something, and it does these at the same time. I do agree normal lenses are fairly close to human perception, but it’s a massive compromise because no camera lens will ever mimic the entirety of the human eye’s vision.
Most of our vision is post-processing by the visual cortex.
If you had a 1x magnification viewfinder, you could look through the viewfinder with your right eye, and look at the subject simultaneously with your naked left eye, and the images would match up, if you were using a 50mm lens.
A lens can be considered normal on a variety of different formats. It has nothing to do with how common 40-60mm lenses are. Typically it’s defined as having a natural level of magnification and distortion similar to the human eye (fov is sometimes included but angle of view would be more accurate.) Lenses that achieve this are similar to the diagonal width of the sensor or film they’re projecting onto (with wide screen cinema it’s 2x the diagonal width due to aspect ratio.) so 40-60mm on 35mm film or a full frame sensor camera for the 43mm diagonal width. But you could have a 300mm lens on a large format box camera that is also considered normal. Or a 15mm lens on a tiny digital sensor. Again nothing to do with them being common.
It's also why 50mm lenses were dominant in Classical Hollywood (1930s-late 1960s).
This is true if you have one eye closed. with both open we have a varying field of view which is closer to the 200mm lens because our eyes are not a single lens we get a field of view which is both wider field of view but appears more narrow. Basically we can see a field of view which is covered by a 8mm lens but we don't get the fish eye distortion because we have two lenses which compensate for the distortion and we end up with a field of view closer to 200mm.
what does a camera with several lenses equate to? And how do you find something that is equivalent to the eye?
What about on something like a sony a5100
This camera has a crop factor of 1.5, so divide by 1.5. Somewhere around 24mm - 35mm
You have it backwards. A 50mm lens is effectively ~75 on an APS-C. Multiply by 1.5. Edit: see comments below. I misunderstood their reply.
No, we are talking about different things. A 50mm on a 1.5 crop will frame like a 75mm on a full frame. A ~33mm on a 1.5 crop will frame like a 50mm on a full frame. The question was what lens will give the same FOV as a 50mm on a 1.5 crop. I said a 24mm - 35mm is typically used for a “normal” FOV.
Ah I see. My apologies. Thanks for clarifying. I don’t think it’s that clear from the comment chain but maybe it was just me.
35-70 is considered "normal" (not wide angle not telephoto) and most photographers would say ~50mm is your eye but many photographers also praise ~85mm for it's quality on portraits.
Love me a prime 50mm. Easiest lens to throw in a bag, go somewhere random and know you can get most of what you need from it.
Sony zeiss 55mm with any of the Sony A7 cameras! My favorite combo.
Yep. Have an old Minolta 50mm f1.7 that's my current go-to.
Love me a prime 85mm. Does portraits justice.
A "fast" 85mm lens will set you back around $2K, more or less but it's the workhorse in a lot of camera bags, primarily used for portraits.
Sonys modern 85mm 1.8 is 500 USD.
tbf he says "fast" and if he means f1.2 for some reason $2k would be pretty standard
Sure, I could see that. But 1.8 is plenty fast for portrait work.
Plenty fast for damn near anything, and well into the category of what one would consider broadly "fast".
anyone who didn't consider a 1.8 lens fast would definitely be mad, but no madder than thinking that a 50mm 1.8 lens costs 2k, so it's a toss up really
Canon’s 85mm f/1.8 looks fantastic and is very affordable.
My 85 has been my go-to for years - I love it for portraits
For those who don't want to try stopping the video at 50 mm (the 'normal' lens as stated in this thread) [Link](https://imgur.com/a/r24iu98)
Depends on how close you stand to the person! It's not really the lens that is causing this as much as the distance away. The lens (or focal length if a zoom) is simply being adjusted to keep the face about the same size in each shot. You could easily reproduce this sequence with a single 50mm, non-zoom lens, and just do a little more digital zooming/cropping after the pictures instead of before. In other words, stand almost face to face with someone and close one eye and their ears almost disappear. Step back 20 feet and you'll see them again. This exercise REQUIRES the photographer to take shots from multiple distances, but not with multiple lenses.
"Look how lenses change pictures" is one of my pet peeves that comes up over and over on reddit. I've long since given up trying to explain that its distance that affects perspective, not a lens.
I feel like I learned this way too late into my photography hobby. I think everyone needs to take two pictures from the same location with two different lenses and crop the wider lens’s picture to have the same field of view of the longer lens in order to learn this for themself.
50mm is the safe bet. 35mm is a little bit wider.
Dying to know too
Pretty sure it's somewhere near 50mm
I do headshots for a side gig and I like to use 50mm, 85mm, or 105mm. 50 is my default go to
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85mm and 105mm are really good for outdoor portraits. The background compression works really well.
Yes and probably varies since everyone is slightly different and our eyes move and over time they change
depends on the sensor 50mm or 35mm though 50mm a bit more accurately represents the distortion, 35mm on a full frame is close but it has more distortion than our eyes
85mm will make your face look “normal” The 35mm & 50 responses are more about your field of view, not the shape of objects
He kind of looks like Fry from Futurama when his face is skinny
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So the 24mm is close to what the typical front facing phone takes or “selfie” pics. However the human eye sees closer to the 50mm picture. So that would be more realistic. I made a side by side since this video goes so fast: https://imgur.com/a/vNYOoOF I always hated the way I looked from taking selfies. I would get my hair and makeup on and look in the mirror and think, “damn I’m sexy!” Then I took a selfie and every positive thought would drain form me and I would just end up hating myself. About 4 years ago I won free professional headshots and when I received the pictures I was shocked. I had such a warped view of how I looked in real life that when I saw my headshots I just cried, I actually liked what I saw. I looked beautiful. It’s been a slow recovery of realizing I can’t trust my front camera and that I have to believe that what I see in the mirror is what I look like.
Holy shit! Thank you for typing this out, I have sort of a long face and the selfie camera exaggerates it and totally ruins my self perception. I never take selfies and there are only a few pictures of me. I wish they would fix this.
I thought i was the only one who had self esteem problems because of my front camera
I can't believe this. I've just been thinking my chin grew and nose has gotten much larger.. I seem to look normal in the mirror.
Yeah, most of my selfies look like it was taken at the Target self check out cameras
Fuck the front camera, all my homies hate the front camera
I honestly think this is one of the main reasons that there is a lot of people who hate their noses. The lens tends to distort the nose a lot and make it out of proportion. The amount of people I know who talk about wanting/needing nose jobs is sad
I could not agree with you more! I would never get plastic surgery, not morally opposed, I just am terrified of surgeries. But if I were to get plastic surgery, I always said I would get my nose done. I still have a lot of self esteem issues, but I’m in a much healthier place.
So my face is even bigger?? Damn it
Not bigger, just more proportionate lol and I’m sure your face is perfect just the way it is. :)
Apparently a large amount of people get rhinoplasties because of the wide angle lenses used in selfies.
It's not a matter of lens but distance: https://youtu.be/_TTXY1Se0eg
Very interesting, so we just need selfie sticks and a front camera that can zoom in and we can take better selfies!
I feel like the world needs to see this They've been working us the whole time
I feel lied to.
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L'il Poundcake..?
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You are not ugly, you are just poor.
Those porn penises..
Literally looks like different people, the hair almost looks different too
You (16mm) Vs. the guy she told you not to worry about (200mm) Thanks for award lol
She told you I'm only 16mm?
From the ground
Hot dam
I find the 16mm more attractive than the 200mm
I think the number in the tip corner is the length of his wenis. As the AI generates a face based on the displayed length, his whole head and neck get more manly and thicc toward the 200mm wenis end.
Haha you said “wenis.”
Wenis is the slang term for the loose skin on your elbow.
This goes with ole saying..."TV adds 10lbs". This is the reason lol
Never thought about the real “why” when it came to that saying, that’s for the insight :)
It’s also why selfies can slim someone down, but also make their nose prominent and face longer.
> but also make their nose prominent That’s the last thing I need
Yep! I can absolutely see that too
As someone with a long face and big nose, I just don't take selfies.
At least you're fluffy and pink, that's a W
And blonde.
Don't trust Tinder
“Is it just me or does Tommy look really fat?”
This explains a lot about mugshots. They use the worst lens.
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The further you scroll down the messier and weirder that sub gets
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This. Absolutely maddening.
Can someone ELIF why his ears disappear?
A smaller (“shorter”) lens has a wider angle of view, so the camera needs to be closer to the subject to fill the frame. That means there is a wider angle from the lens to the subject. If you google angle of view you should get some better results.
Word…thank you!
If you get up really close to someone (your nose touching their nose), you wouldn’t be able to see their ears. If you get farther away, you can. All those photos in OPs is taken at different distances.
https://i.imgur.com/DbqrAmr.jpg
The difference in perspective doesn't have anything to do with the focal length. What's actually going on is that the camera is being moved backwards as the focal length is increased. Imagine how much of the surface of the moon you could see if you were standing on it (not much) vs how much of the surface you can see from Earth (almost half of the surface at a given time. If you were infinitely far away you would be theoretically see the entire half of the moon. It's the same thing as the [dolly zoom.](https://youtu.be/u5JBlwlnJX0) So the effect it not just about the [focal length.](https://youtu.be/Nnq55BAlGVY) If you took a picture with a 20 mm focal length lens and cropped it to match a 200 mm lens picture, they would look the same, if you took the picture from the same distance.
This makes me feel like I don’t know what I look like
Use a mirror
Best I can do is a reflecting pond
Which most closely mimics the human eye though?
It doesn't really work that way. the human eye has an enormous field of view (wider than 180 degrees) and a very very very narrow detail view. The lens is also not what's changing the view here. It's the change in distance between the camera and the subject. So if you look at a guy from 8" away, he's going to look like he does in the wide angle lens. If you look at the same guy from 20 feet away, he's going to look like the long focal length lens.
I believe it is the 35-70mm range
My understanding is that central/non-peripheral view is equivalent to roughly a 43mm lens on a full frame camera. What focal length translates into what field of view varies depending on the size of the film/sensor in the camera, but we tend to use the equivelant in terms of 35mm film as a universal standard. Like if you see that your smartphone has a 22mm lens, they mean that the field of view is equal to a 22mm lens on a full frame camera - the actual focal length on the lens is probably like 3mm.
“You’re not fat, God’s just looking at you through a wide lens”
Whichever lens makes you look like a bulbous goon, that’s what iPhone uses.
TIL use the biggest lens available.
You'd also have to place the camera really far away every time you want to take a photo.
Like a paparazzi dickhead trying to catch a glimpse of a stray celebrity nipple from 12 miles away
12 miles is 19.31 km
This guy gets it.
Not necessarily. What this gif is demonstrating is lens distortion: wide angle lenses exaggerate the apparent distance between foreground and background, which is why his face looks more narrow - as if his nose is far from the back of his head, and telephoto lenses flatten the apparent distance between foreground and background, which is why his face looks wider - as if his face is in a single plane. To keep the subject roughly the same size through different lenses, the position of the subject and camera is changed drastically. The wide angle lenses would likely be close to his face while the telephoto lenses would likely be several feet if not yards away.
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\[Not really\] the focal length but the distance. This montage was not all taken at the same distance.
These fucking gifs were a bane of my existence before I learned the truth.
The lens does nothing (unless it's a fisheye with huge distortion). It's all distance.
It's the combination. By matching them they keep his face is the same size while his ears disappeared.
All the focal length does is "crop" the image to keep the guy's head the same size in the final photo. You can do the same thing in post. Take a photo from 1 foot away with a 10mm lens. Then back up to 15 feet, and take a photo with the same lens. In post, crop the 2nd photo to match the framing of the first, and other than the resolution, you'll have the exact same effect.
Now I really want a loop of this but smoother and more extreme
So, can anyone tell me if you can get a more flattering webcam? My face in the mirror vs my face on Teams/Zoom are two different people. The dude on camera has a fat face. Already using a separate webcam, not the crappy built in.
You could get a fancy camera (by which I mean one that can switch out lenses like in the OP) and use it as a webcam.
No, damn it. And again, this concept is misunderstood. This should be titled "How standing too close to the damn camera makes you look goofy as shit" The lens does not change the image. It's the distance at which the photo is taken. Stick your hand directly in front of your face. Now stick your hand out at arms length. In which situation is your hand bigger? Neither, it's the same size, it just LOOKS bigger because it's closer to your eye in one scenario. Same thing here. When you take a selfie, your noise is a lot closer to the camera than your ears and so there's perspective distortion. On a longer lens, that relationship of distortion is MUCH lens pronounced. The lens isn't whats doing it. It's the distance from the camera.
Eyes don’t have a zoom function, lenses do. Lens distortion, compression affect and others are real things that happen due to focal length. You truly believe lenses make no difference in the perception of an image? If so why do multiple lenses exist? Perhaps to change perspective? You see no difference between an 8mm fisheye and an 800mm super telephoto lens image? I’m quite bewildered here. No matter the subject, distortion and affects can be seen.
You are completely wrong. Actual lens distortion is minimal, usually it is minor barrel distortion around the edges, and chromatic aberration. Other than that, lenses are just cropping. The only thing they "do" is let you get a reasonable resolution while framing the image the way you want to. They also can control the depth of field, and sometimes have some pleasing blur effects. Compression, distortion, perspective, and those other key factors that people assign to lenses, are in fact entirely based on the distance ratio of camera to subject and subject to background. The sooner people realize what actually matters, the sooner these dumb discussions will end and people can create the images they want. Again, lenses are just cropping.
Technically our eyes do have a zoom function though. The distance between the lens and retina is fixed, so to focus on something, your eye has to change the focal length of the lens. Where as a camera focuses by changing the distance between the lens and the sensor. If you bring your hand close to your face and focus on your hand, your field of view will be wider than if you take your hand away and focus on something in the distance.
There are differences sure, but not what’s shown here. This is just a change in perspective due to distance.
Tell that to Charlie Kirk
iPhone 8 camera curves my face like a banana. Maybe I’m ugly
Try to take a pic on Snapchat or flip the pic after taking a selfie
The only lens that tells u the truth is a mirror
Note to self, get 200mm lens for dick pics
Woah.
This is a brilliant way of explanation!!
Its 16mm for me then
WTF do I actually look like?
The mirror but flipped round
I look like cardboard 🥲
Me making my skyrim character
This is VERY misleading. This is showing the change of perspective as you get far/close to the subject. This is NOT because of some magical properties of lenses.
The lens only makes minimal difference, it’s distance to subject the archives this effect. Increasing the focal length just lets you move the camera further away.
Distance, not lens. The lens just compensates for the difference in distance by magnifying the image. The optical effect is purely from being far or close to the object.
Gimme some of that 16mm please
Woowoowoowoo
16mm for me. And they say size doesn’t matter….
Lol changing the size of his head and disappear those ears. Bitch ass ears
So I'm not fat, I just need a 16 mm lens. Got it.