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"All They Know is the Selfie": Selfies Increase Perceived Nose Size by 30%

posted by martyb on Friday March 02 2018, @02:23PM   
from the Jimmy-Durante-approved dept.

takyon writes:

Does this selfie make my nose look big? Yes:

Taking selfies at a distance of about 12 inches from the face increases perceived nose size by nearly 30%, according to a report published Thursday in the journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery [DOI: 10.1001/jamafacial.2018.0009] [DX].

Researchers now are cautioning that patients interested in cosmetic procedures should not turn to self-photographs as guidance when considering making changes to their faces. "Patients, people, even my family have to be aware that if you're taking a selfie, it's not really how you look," said Dr. Boris Paskhover, a facial plastics and reconstructive surgeon at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a leading author on the study. "Selfies make your nose look wider and thicker when it really isn't, and people like a smaller nose," Paskhover added. "My fear is that the generation out there now doesn't know. All they know is the selfie."

Also at EurekAlert and The Verge.

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• Re:43 mm, more or less Re:43 mm, more or less (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @04:04PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @04:04PM (#646444)

  So Canon pancake 40mm lens should do it.

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• Re:43 mm, more or less Re:43 mm, more or less (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 02 2018, @06:58PM (1 child)

  by bob_super (1357) on Friday March 02 2018, @06:58PM (#646543)

  Which is why ~100mm is the best lens for portraits. Pros learnt how to make people look better long before photoshop existed.

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  • Re:43 mm, more or less (Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday March 02 2018, @07:42PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Friday March 02 2018, @07:42PM (#646577)

    Which is why ~100mm is the best lens for portraits

    [for a 35mm format camera]

    Yes, for a head only shot, otherwise that is a bit too long. In film days the major camera makers promoted an 85mm focal length [pentaxforums.com] for portrait use.

    Actually, any lens gives the same perspective as the human eye does from the same distance. It is just that with a wider angle lens the photographer needs to get closer to "fill the frame" with a head, say, so introducing the perspective "distortion" as well as crowding the sitter. It is just a fact that the perspective from a longer distance (known to photographers as a "flat" perspective), even when enlarged, is more pleasing.

    As for 43mm focal length lenses, that is the diagonal of a 35mm film frame (do the Pythagoras), which according to some gives the natural persective of the human eye. I believe it is more complex than that as the human eye's field of view just fades and deteriorates towards the indistict edges.

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