Soft Focus Lenses and Filters Usage

[Dugan]

Be sure to refer to yourself in the third person, Randy.

Sorry for OT...couldn't resist.

[LabRat]

Mirrors are also a problem as they too lie

What we see in a mirror is not what the camera sees

I gave up with a close fiend (sp intended) so I set up dslr and large monitor for sitter to take portrait with remote trigger aka WYSIWYG

100's of shots later still not happy

notice I don't specify gender

right now messing my hair and beard for my most insane appearance for a Zoom meeting in 20 minutes with a log cabin Zoom background, I shot nearby

I will try for screen grabs, never tried that either

Was talking to the manager at a large pro lab in Hollywood years ago, and he was having a problem with an older lady actress customer who insisted her printed headshots did not look right... Told him we had that problem too with a customer, but finally re-printed it with the neg flopped to reverse it... She saw it and said "it is perfect now"...

She was delighted, but it looked weird to everyone else... :-(

Steve K

[Matt Stage]

As we live in a world where there are smart mirrors, (https://www.mirror.co/shop/mirror?ut...irror_shopping) certainly there should be apps that would adjust the reflection that we see according to what we want to see. But who wouldn't be happy with the classic application? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br0DCEEBplY

[BrianShaw]

LOL. Mirrors indeed lie. I look into them and have no idea who that old man is that looks back. I don’t feel nearly as old as that lying mirror and lying driver’s license says I am!

[Tin Can]

I was moving when this SF thread appeared, so missed it

soft focus lenses 2017 march

Good stuff in it

[Tin Can]

Our last wife used the royal 'We'. RIP Queen

They are happy

Be sure to refer to yourself in the third person, Randy.

Sorry for OT...couldn't resist.

[Mark Sawyer]

It's not just what we look like in a photograph vs. in real life. It's how we look at people in real life vs. how we look at people in photographs.

When I'm talking to someone, I look at them, but I don't do an up-close study of their wrinkles and pores. When I see a photographic portrait, it seems much more likely I'll get inches away and spend some time studying the face, the skin textures, the flaws...