2006-07-31 02:55:43 · 5 answers · asked by Professor Armitage 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
I think it has to do with the 2-dimensional nature of photographs.
When you see something in person, you see it in three dimensions. Your two eyes both see slightly different angles. Imagine looking at a basketball; because you have that "stereoscopic" vision, you can see that the object is curved, that its front surface kind of "bends around to the side."
But when you look at a photo (or video) of the object, you're seeing that 3D shape flattened into two dimensions. The part of the front of the basketball that's "bending around to the side" is now, in your vision, pushed forward to be even with the very front of the ball. And although you know, consciously, that the object is a sphere, at a subconsious level you see it as being just a little fatter than it really is.
Make sense?
2006-07-31 03:02:59 · answer #1 · answered by Jay H 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
the thanks to get specialist high quality at the low cost is with movie and an previous SLR. for below $100 (USD) you need to get an terrific digicam, a short lens and a lot of movie. you do not even choose to get prints, merely take it to a lab or deliver it to a lab and get the negatives stepped forward and scanned onto a CD. human beings brush aside (or actually, do not even evaluate) movie anymore, yet they're lacking out. Shoot it at the same time as it is the following! do not enable the LOMOgraphy crowd, the bypass-processors and the toy digicam bunch convince you that movie makes crappy, lo-fi photos. virtually all specialist images 10 years in the past develop into movie; the conventional is there! we are speaking 20+ megapixels in case you choose to entice that evaluation.
2016-11-27 01:09:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen the camera's? they're huge, I'd be happy with a few pounds and not a few stone!
Honestly though, I think it works like water. i.e magnifies your image slightly
2006-07-31 02:57:37 · answer #3 · answered by tizicalUs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jay's answer sounds good to me.
I guess that is why if we see a famous person he or she seem so much thinner than on TV.
2006-07-31 03:34:30 · answer #4 · answered by Patti C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably "seems" to because it is showing us an angle of ourselves that we don't regularly see, so it's just kind of new and perhaps different than our expectations.
2006-07-31 03:00:14 · answer #5 · answered by Chris K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋