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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Mar 31

    Every photographer knows: Selfies uglify faces (e.g., exaggerate noses). For a good portrait, use a long lens at a distance, not a wide-angle at arm's length. @verogreenwoodhttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/selfies-nose-distortion/556586/?utm_source=twb …

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      1. Dr. Peradventure  🦊‏ @Peradventur3 Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Selfies aren't portraiture, though. They're a form of experience-sharing.

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      1. C. Brooks‏ @Photo_Mayor Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        A PSA from those who take pictures as vocation: For a good portrait hire a freakin' professional photographer. *** This message brought to you by starving and marginalized photogs around the globe.

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      1. Jeff Cotner‏ @CotnerJeff Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Assuming you think a smaller nose make you look better! A selfied close-up shows the perspective of those who are close to you (physically). The distant portrait maybe be lovely, but also cold and sterile; the intimate close-up may be the real you.

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      1. Dr. C. A. R. Balzer‏ @DoctorBalzer Mar 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        So I just need longer arms!

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      1. IPC  🎃 👻 🧟‍♀️ 💀‏ @corteconfeccion Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        And why is that statement of big nose = ugly face necessarily true?

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      2. The VikiD Truth  🐻‏ @vukini Mar 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        Intellectualism gone awry. If it uglifies you then why is every wanna be model on Facebook and Instagram using it?

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      3. Sinjab Ahmar ك‏ @sinjab_ahmar Mar 31
        Replying to @vukini @sapinker

        They probably have noses that are considered too small by conventional standards

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      1. Gustavo Loureiro, MD‏ @gus_loureiro Mar 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        In my case the nose becomes 10 feet long then.

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      1. jehrenthal‏ @jehrenthal Mar 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        Every time you take a selfie you lose an opportunity to raise yourself out of abject poverty. Also somewhere an angel loses it wings or a hymen is ruptured.

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      1. Mónica List‏ @ListMonica Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Um...filters?

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      1. Paul Kite‏ @i_luv_con_air Mar 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        That is the point of selfies. If it weren't then there wouldn't be stupid dog noses, anime eyes, and pixie dust.

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      1. Marcissistic‏ @Memetherapy1 Mar 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        So I should take selfies of my dick is what you're implying. Thanks Steve.

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      1. B.J.Boogie‏ @bjboogie02 Mar 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        yep ... phone cams are typically 28 mm lenses, portrait photogs tend to use lenses closer to 100 mm

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      1. Christopher Mackay  🇨🇦‏ @tantramar Mar 31
        Replying to @sapinker

        also: look at the lens, not the screen. (unless you’re going for the psychotic doesn’t-know-to-look-people-in-the-eyes look.)

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      2. Paul hicks‏ @paulhic83669644 Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Not always true, and I speak as a photographer and DP with over 40 years experience. When the camera is above the eye-line, portraits from a close perspective can be very effective and, luckily, many selfies are shot this way. BTW check the close ups from Amelie.

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      3. Paul hicks‏ @paulhic83669644 Apr 1
        Replying to @paulhic83669644 @sapinker

        pic.twitter.com/zKaHYN68Wk

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      4. Paul hicks‏ @paulhic83669644 Apr 2
        Replying to @paulhic83669644 @sapinker

        Also, who are all these photographers that ‘ know’ ? What do they know? If they haven’t done at least their proverbial 10000 hours you’re no expert and your gained ‘knowledge’ is mostly second hand. BTW, usually, if your pictures are dull you’re too far away.

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      1. Adrian Quick‏ @MrAdrianQuick Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Last RT. But what’s wrong with big noses?pic.twitter.com/zCd54ENbyp

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      1. joseph graves‏ @josephjgraves Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Well...sort of. Source: am a photographer

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