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This subtle fisheye effect is why people can often sense that a picture is a selfie even when they can’t see the person’s arm in the shot.

See here: As illustrated by the Koldunov Brothers If you take a picture too close, the feature closest to the camera (nose, chin, etc.) appears super-sized and the sides of the face cave in. Turns out, in order to capture your face as it actually is, pictures need to be taken from farther away than your own arm can reach. The problem? The client’s nose is fine what they’re looking at on their phone isn’t real - it’s selfie distortion. Plastic surgeons have been dealing with a recent influx of clients bringing in their selfies as proof of a “big nose” or “high forehead,” etc. Selfie distortion warps your face “Selfies make our noses look 30 percent larger than they really are, plastic surgeons warn.” – Vox Here are some reasons why (plus what you can do about it). I’m here to tell you that selfies are screwing up your look. Couples can change their apparent sizes using Closer Means Bigger.Are you getting the “Would prefer if it didn’t seem like a selfie” Quick Note on Photofeeler? Or maybe your photos just aren’t scoring well in general, and you’d like to learn a fix? Experiment until you look closer to the size you want to be. If you are sitting together, adjust yourselves by having one person sit well back and the other one forward. If, as a couple, you want to reduce a height or size discrepancy, make sure the taller one steps slightly back or the shorter one steps slightly forward. Bosses tend to place themselves in the middle, because that position draws the eye, but it can also have a downside: making them look smaller than everyone else! But straight lines can look uptight, especially when everyone is in business attire – so corporate groups are sometimes photographed in a semi-circle to try to look informal and inclusive. Switching to the edge of the semi-circle will make you look bigger.įor a larger group, two or more straight lines of people will be much less distorted than curved rows. In a semi-circle, the person at the center will always look comparatively smaller than the people at the ends, who are closer to the camera and who will look bigger and taller. In a group photo, everyone has to be the same distance from the camera to avoid distorting their comparative sizes. Those on the edge of the semi-circle will appear larger. On the other hand, slouching against the back of your chair is unfavorably distorting. Slouching puts your head and chest further away from the camera, making them appear dramatically smaller than if you were sitting up. In real life, their heads are pretty much the same size.īeing closer to the camera makes you bigger, amplifying your presence in the photo. You can use the Closer Means Bigger phenomenon to:Īnything close to the camera will look huge. Closest to the camera: chin, nose, or eyes? On the right, her forehead and eyes are closest to the camera, making them look bigger than in the other photos. In the middle, her nose and cheeks are the closest to the camera. On the left, Mona is tilting her chin up, so that it is closer to the camera than the rest of her face. What you are really doing is choosing whether your chin, your nose or your eyes are going to be closer to the camera, and so you are changing their relative sizes. Just tilting your chin up or down has an effect. It can pick up unbelievably minute differences in distance, differences to which the human eye would never even pay attention.

Just a few feet changes their sizes dramatically. What happens if Mona and Guillermo are not standing exactly next to each other? The distances between them in these photos are only a few feet. You may have been standing closer to the camera, and Alex may have been standing just a couple of inches back. We look out of proportion: ‘ I’m massive! Alex looks fragile next to me.’ But Alex isn’t necessarily next to you. We may see ourselves in a photo and feel that it doesn’t make sense. Closer to the camera = bigger in the photo.Īll photos suffer from this everyday camera distortion. Where you stand dictates your size in couple photosĭo you want to look bigger or smaller in couple photos, compared to your friends or partner? The apparent size of our bodies will always depend on whether we are closer to (or further away from) the camera than they are.