I am a landscape photographer, generally,but occasionally am called on to photograph the occasional human or two.
I pull out the big camera with the telephoto lens and wide scatter①scatter 英 ['sk?t?] 美 ['sk?t?] vi. 分散,散開;散射vt. 使散射;使散開,使分散;使散播,使撒播n. 分散;散播,撒播fl ash.
"No, can't you… like use the phone?That will bring out my fl aws②fl aw 英 [fl ??] 美 [fl ?] n. 瑕疵,缺點;一陣狂風;短暫的風暴;裂縫,裂紋v. 使生裂縫,使有裂紋;使無效;使有缺陷vi. 生裂縫;變得有缺陷." Actually the reverse is true.
We look distorted③distorted 英 [d?'st??t?d] 美 [d?s't?rt?d] adj. 歪曲的;受到曲解的v. 扭曲(distort的過去式和過去分詞)in the phone cameras, better in standard 35 or 50 mm and even better in 135mm, but the best images are in telephotos.
Because the wide angles distort our face. 85mm is considered the goto standard for portrait, 135mm a good plus, anything above is a bonus.
Anything below, like our cell phones, is not going to make us look our best, not going to look like us.
But there could actually be more to it. Beyond the photography lesson. I see a different image in the mirror.
總體來說,我是個風景攝影師,但我偶爾也會被叫去拍一兩個人像。
我拿出了我的大相機,上面裝著遠焦鏡頭和巨大的散射閃光燈。
“不,你能不能……比如,用手機?這個東西會把我拍丑的?!睂嶋H上事實正好相反。
我們在手機鏡頭里是失真的,而在35毫米或50毫米的標準鏡頭下則好很多,在135毫米鏡頭下則會更好,不過最好的照片還是要用遠焦鏡頭來拍。
這是因為廣角鏡頭(手機的就是這種)會讓我們的臉變形。而85毫米的鏡頭則是拍人像時的首選鏡頭,135毫米的則是錦上添花,更高的則更好。
而在這個標準以下的,比如我們的手機,是不會讓我們看起來太好看的,甚至都不會讓我們看起來像自己。
而且實際上還不止如此。撇開攝影知識不談,我們在鏡子里看到的自己(和真實情況相比)是不同的。