It is often said that cameras tend to add a few kilos to those who get in front of their lens. When this happens, it can be due to a number of reasons. One of them is poor lighting : in places with poor light, it is difficult for the lens to accurately capture the dimensions of a body. For this reason, photography professionals take care to place the light in such a way that the shadows generated by it highlight the most attractive parts of the figure, instead of hiding them.
Telephoto lenses have a long focus length and, when used at close range, reduce the distance between the nose and ears. The wide angle , for its part, does the opposite, making people in the center of the image appear taller and wider. The root of the problem is that cameras have to reproduce the real world of three in two dimensions, which can create these types of distortions.
