Photogenic?

[Fez Hammersticks]

Ok, I know this girl and she's very pretty in person. However, she looks A LOT different, worse, in pictures. She almost looks like a different person. I'm pretty sure she doesn't photoshop them to make herself look worse, what gives? Angles? Camera lense?

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

you are temporarily infatuated when in her presence, so you overlook minor flaws that appear when seen in a photograph. it happens.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I don't think it's that. Because we're just friends. If I had to guess, maybe it's angles? A 9-ish in person, but a 5-6 in pictures. I can't figure it out.

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

Its usually a large nose that throws one off. Does she have a large nose?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Not really. Nothing is really disproportionate. But it is kinda freaky because she looks so different (in a bad way) and I don't have the heart to tell her she looks like a wreck in pictures.

 

[drexlersdad]

some people just picture good. lots of models look kinda freaky in real life.

photo> real life = beer goggles > real life?

 

[julius]

I knew a girl when I was a kid, that to this day, is not nearly as attractive in pictures as she is in person.

It's a good thing we marry the person and no the picture.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Why is that, though? Is it that their face just isn't lens friendly? It elongated her face and everything. Looks NOTHING like how she does in person.

 

[Spud147]

Why is that, though? Is it that their face just isn't lens friendly? It elongated her face and everything. Looks NOTHING like how she does in person.

Sometimes people look kind of lifeless in pictures and maybe you're missing that spark in her eyes. My guilty pleasure is watching "America's Next Top Model". Modeling is way harder than it sounds, it's like acting without words or movement. At the start of the season they bring in the new contestants and there are always a few surprisingly angular (my nicest way to say not very pretty, heh) and often the ones who would be considered beautiful in person don't make it to the finale. It's really strange.

 

[julius]

Why is that, though? Is it that their face just isn't lens friendly? It elongated her face and everything. Looks NOTHING like how she does in person.

Honestly? I think a lot of beauty is in character. And pictures don't always show character. There is also POV.

If you're tall, and the pictures are taken from below, you look strange. Same with short.

And I have to admit that the person I'm thinking of might not look as attractive in person anymore considering I haven't seen her in person since I was in high school.

 

[Minstrel]

I think shading matters a lot, too. You get different shading effects when you look at someone in the flesh then in looking at a flat, non-dynamic picture.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Yeah, it's strange.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Sometimes people look kind of lifeless in pictures and maybe you're missing that spark in her eyes. My guilty pleasure is watching "America's Next Top Model". Modeling is way harder than it sounds, it's like acting without words or movement. At the start of the season they bring in the new contestants and there are always a few surprisingly angular (my nicest way to say not very pretty, heh) and often the ones who would be considered beautiful in person don't make it to the finale. It's really strange.

So it sounds like when you are watching that show, you are actually looking at their faces.

 

[44Thrilla]

There are also people that look good in pictures but not so good in person.

 

[Ed O]

There are also people that look good in pictures but not so good in person.

Yes... while I think it's difficult to capture why some people just aren't represented well in photographs, I think there are often pretty good reasons for why some people look better: they can smile on command well, they understand flattering angles and poses, and/or they surround themselves with ugly people in pics so they look better.



Ed O.

 

[Ed O]

Sometimes people look kind of lifeless in pictures and maybe you're missing that spark in her eyes. My guilty pleasure is watching "America's Next Top Model". Modeling is way harder than it sounds, it's like acting without words or movement. At the start of the season they bring in the new contestants and there are always a few surprisingly angular (my nicest way to say not very pretty, heh) and often the ones who would be considered beautiful in person don't make it to the finale. It's really strange.

I'm no expert in how high-end models are selected (or most kinds of models, for that part... I haven't cast a shoot in years (and that makes it sound more interesting than it was... haha)) but my understanding is that photographers want to work with interesting models. I guess if you get to a certain level, every woman is going to be at least arguably beautiful, and so whether she's a 9.75 or a 9.9 gets to be subjective... but if she has an incredible and/or incredibly different "look", then she's more valuable.

Huge eyes. Massive lips. Ethnic ambiguity. Crazy hair.

Those things don't make a girl more beautiful, necessarily, but they often make for a more interesting shoot and end product.

Ed O.

 

[Spud147]

So it sounds like when you are watching that show, you are actually looking at their faces.

Oh puh-lease, stop trying to be a bad ass. You have about as much "Thug Appeal" as Justin Timberlake.

You KNOW, that I KNOW you're a big old goofy adorable dork.

 

[Spud147]

I'm no expert in how high-end models are selected (or most kinds of models, for that part... I haven't cast a shoot in years (and that makes it sound more interesting than it was... haha)) but my understanding is that photographers want to work with interesting models. I guess if you get to a certain level, every woman is going to be at least arguably beautiful, and so whether she's a 9.75 or a 9.9 gets to be subjective... but if she has an incredible and/or incredibly different "look", then she's more valuable.

Huge eyes. Massive lips. Ethnic ambiguity. Crazy hair.

Those things don't make a girl more beautiful, necessarily, but they often make for a more interesting shoot and end product.

Ed O.

That is interesting. We were talking about the standardization of beauty in the west. Now when you want to sell something you need to make yourself stand out so you show chocolate in a see of vanilla.

No wonder women are so insecure!

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

pix plz