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.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2018, @07:11PM (4 children)
The distortion in question is perspective distortion and is entirely due to relative distance from the lens of various points in the frame. It has nothing at all to do with the lens though the lens can add additional distortion. You get big noses from perspective distortion whenever you shoot a face at arms distance with any camera and any lens.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday March 02 2018, @09:15PM (1 child)
Yet isn't that the same view you get of someone's big nose, which was the problem to begin with? Perhaps two eyes somehow help with parallax vs single lens camera. I guess from 100 yards there would be little relative distortion of snout size but at 100 yards do normal people check out someone's nostrils?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @07:08AM
RTFA, 5 feet is enough
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday March 02 2018, @11:37PM (1 child)
That's almost entirely incorrect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @08:31AM
Nope, it doesn't matter what lens or camera you use, the perspective distortion is the same. It is entirely due to the relative distance to the lens of various points in the frame. RTFA d00d.