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Lyckas precis finna ett ganska bra svar från en fotograf tydligen. Gillade vad han skrev.
"As a photographer, I can tell you that the camera can, and many times DOES, distort how you really look. Different lenses, a slightly "wrong" angle or shadow.... I can take a picture with my camera, and 2 other different cameras, and no one looks the same in each one. Your standard point and shoot cameras have wide angle lenses so you get more of a room or group into a shot. Wide angle lenses are VERY distorted. (you know how things look through a peephole in a door? That's an exaggerated example of a wide angle lens. That bending of the sides and bulging of the middle is the same idea, only a camera is much less severe...but think about that for a minute...you can certainly imagine what that effect, even slightly, can do to your photographic reflection!!)
Do not let photographs discourage you. We photographers get paid to take pictures because we LEARN how to shoot pictures of people to make them look their best. Otherwise, why hire a photographer when your friends can take pics for free?
I've also shot modeling portfolios, and those girls are SO MUCH more painfully thin in person than they even look in their photos. That addage about the camera adding 10 pounds? TRUE in many many situations!
N O! a snapshot is not an accurate representation of how you REALLY look. And chances are, you look much better in person. Blow it off as a bad picture (or a camera with a crappy lens) and remind yourself that you saw the truth in your mirror."