![]() “Say cheese!” Oh, boy, that always ruins it. In fact, according to OK Cupid, a camera’s flash adds seven years. For your best pose, try to take photos outdoors under natural lighting. The flash makes the skin look shiny and greasy a nd sharpens the edges of your face, making you look like a polygon troll. Things get a lot worse in the dark when you need to turn the flash on. When mental calibration is absent, a photo will often turn out with shades and lights that not only look unnatural but also unflattering as well. When you look at a real-life object, you have the advantage of automatically compensating for lighting as your eyes adjust to see better, while your brain also processes the image for the best contrast. Everybody, no matter how ugly they are, has a good (or at least, better ) side. In contrast, photos always seem to catch you at a bad angle. Unconsciously, you’ll always look at yourself from a good angle. Indeed, this amplifies the shaking effect, but keeping the camera still using a tripod does the job.Īlso, when looking yourself in the mirror, you have the advantage of always correcting the angle in real-time. A good photographer knows he needs to position himself farther away and then zoom in if needed. For instance, if a photo is taken with a short focal length (zoomed out) and at the same time the subject is also close to the camera, then you’ll get a fisheye lens effect that skews the portrait, making the nose and forehead look bigger. Also, depending on the focal length and distance from the subject, the lens can create unflattering geometric distortions. A camera has only one eye, so photography flattens images in a way that mirrors do not. ![]() So, the main point here is that we see in 3-D. I’d recommend you follow the story of Susan Barry, a woman who, for 48 years of her life, was stuck in a flat, 2-D world. The brain also ignores the nose - which would have been a drag to always see for the rest of your life. The small differences between the two images add up to a big difference in the final picture! The combined image is more than the sum of its parts: it is a three-dimensional stereo picture. So, each eye takes a separate view, but in the end, both images are combined after processing occur s in the brain. You can easily see what I’m talking about by closing each of your eyes for a second and then comparing the views. The two eye views have plenty in common, but they also complement each other - each eye picks up visual information the other doesn’t. Thanks to the close side-by-side positioning, each eye takes a view of the same area from a slightly different angle. Human eyes come in twos, but unlike horses which have one on each side, we have both of them right in front of our heads.
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