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- TuxNuts, on 10/12/2007, -7/+102Why does the camera add 10 pounds?
Because most models could really use that extra 10 pounds... - drouk1556, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74Because you're fat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40Would be better if it included pictures and examples of people under different lighting.
- KenOh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39My not supposed to eat the camera?
- nakile, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27Your not suppose to eat the camera...
- jprater, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20b/c you haven't been photoshopped yet.
- dawglse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I thought the Bonus Explainer near the end was more interesting than the main article.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I'm in ur Soviet Russia, telling you that blending is not a hair question!
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"Everyone knows a camera adds ten pounds"
"How many cameras were on you?" - davecor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Agreed - People have a physiological reason for hating pictures of themselves. They are used to seeing a mirror images of themselves, NOT the correct view the rest of the world sees.
A crafty photographer will "flop" the image (in the old days, the negative) to please a fussy client - people will frequently prefer the backwards photo.
HP now makes a camera with a "slimming" feature, but it makes the people on the ends of a row look fatter... make sure you are in the middle of the pic! - jprater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10i find hearing a recording of my voice very weird since i sound so different "in my head".
- mattcoady, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Know what also adds ten pounds? Whatever is on the end of your fork. Put it down and go for a jog, tubby.
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Are you kidding me? There are tons of fat people in seattle.
- Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm American and I'm certainly not fat. Saying "Americans are fat" is stupid. However, I will agree that many Americans are fat.
- davecor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4After re-reading TFA I disagree with part of the conclusion. Yes, lighting makes a dramatic impact on the perceived shape of a face or a body - I'll grant that.
I think there is also a difference between our binocular vision and the monocular view of a camera and how our brains interpret the images. If you take a Polaroid of a person in a natural lighting situation and then hold it up next to the subject, you will see a difference.
My guess is that human vision can see a little more of both sides of the face, while monocular vision just shows the center and possibly looks broader to us.
I just know that when I photograph people, I light them "thinner" than they really are, and the photo seems to look right in the end. - raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I once saw a documentary on tv -or read an article, can't remember- that discussed what makes people photogenic and the discovery was that apart from the natural beauty of the person, some people developed a skill of always showing their best angles to the camera, they are conscious of them.
I can attest this from my kid who at very little age started smiling with a very particular -and funny- smile he only uses when he's being taken a picture. I'm sure nobody trained him, really; he just came up with it. Oh, and by looking at my own pictures I'm sure it is not genetic. - bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you forgot the obligatory /chandler tag
- EllaTheCat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is the best explanation I've seen.
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/research/archives/2002/why_tv_makes_you_fatter1504.cfm - syder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@reservoirdog
Quentin, is that you? - vroom171, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why does a bigmac add 10 pounds?
- Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How insightful. Thanks for that ultra valuable comment, that really set things into perspective. If it's not life-changing journalism, I don't want to hear it!
The irony of because sarcastic about your sarcasm is so great it's giving me aches. - raymore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Totally.
- cprincipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Camera adds ten pounds. Photoshop drops 30.
- AstralAutomaton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I see that the answer is clearly that yes, it has.
- qualish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For what it's worth... I think you are that ugly. :3
- legalcondom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3it does...
- MedHead, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1You've also reversed the focal length:effect ratio. The longer the lens, the fatter the face.
- Jacques67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nope. The quality of your lens determens bokeh. Bokeh != DOF. Bad lenses will produce bad bokeh, that is, out of focus light sources will diffuse into a donut-like shape. Good lenses will produce a solid circle. Theoretical perfect lenses (physically impossible) would produce a gaussian circle. Using the telephoto end decreases the *apparent* DOF, while a faster stop will physically decrease it. A cropped-to-subject photo will have the same DOF as one that was zoomed to subject, assuming you don't change your f-stop.
- reservoirdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know about added weight. I look emaciated, like a mummy or something. Butt-ugly really. Everyone says that, even I think so too. But no one's ever said that to me in real life.
Now I don't know if it's the camera or I really am that ugly! - thatbox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Similarly, it could easily have something to do with focal length. 50mm is about equal to what the human eye sees, and I have a feeling that most amateur point-and-shoot shots are taken at wider angles than that (in their 35mm equivalent) since most people are unwilling or unable to use the "professional" portrait focal lengths, which are typically 50mm or longer.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's not just lighting, it's the zoom you used.
If you use wideangle or don't zoom in with your camera, faces look fatter. If you use telephoto, or zoom in on somebody's face, it'll look more proportional. It's also a good idea to zoom in when taking portraits to have a more blurry background (AKA Bokeh). - darrin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Your F-stop determines bokeh, not the focal length.
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Every time someone sees me on a camera they say I have an awkward look to me and when I look at the image I think I do as well. It's strange.
- lowd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Am I just severely wasted, or does Tommy look bloated?
- xSEED, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3americans are fat keep digging down but it doesn't make it false
- Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1The camera doesn't add any pounds, it just records what is in front of it with limited resolution. This is just an excuse fat-asses made-up. This article was written as if eyeballs can't see lighting unless it's in a photograph. Lighting is important, but it doesn't add weight. Give me a ***** break.
- crystalcha28, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1This is lame. The camera doesnt add ten pounds. It just shows whats already there.
- goatboy91587, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Indeed. That or Drouk's comment.
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1ah, the hard-hitting journalistic questions that have us all salivating in anticipation of the answer.
so glad this quandary has been solved. - raymore, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Not in Seattle.
- Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1In Soviet Russia, pounds add YOU!
- mstrebe, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4No, it has devolved into a bitchfest about the quality of comments.
- cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4Mabey becuaes people have 16:9 video squeezed on 4:3 tvs
- xSEED, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1camera doesn't if you're american you're already fatter
- AstralAutomaton, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Has the comments section really devolved into a cheap joke competition?
- raymore, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Ha totally, I digg it.
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