People don’t seem to realize that camera lens and lighting can vastly change the color, depth, and shape of your image. Most of the time if you see some differences in between two pictures of the same person it’s because they were taken with different lenses or under different lighting.
Technically focal length doesn’t matter directly, only indirectly, because the phenomenon is almost entirely defined by the distance from the camera and the subject. If you have a 50mm lens and take the photo as far away as the 200mm lens, the person will look roughly the same when cropped down to the same apparent size (minus the loss of resolution from cropping and a smaller effective sensor size).
If you slap on a 200mm lens on a camera within 2 meters of your subject, though, you might not be able to focus, and if you can you wouldn’t be able to fit their entire face in frame.
But that also means our eyes, with our fixed focal lengths, can experience the same thing, by just moving closer or further away from a subject. Our visual cortex automatically adjusts a lot of things, but get up close and see someone’s ears or hair shrink in relative terms compared to their nose, or get far away and see their nose get back to a normal ratio to their eyes or ears.
Side note, this is a big reason why I don’t care for selfies. I don’t like the distortion.
I think brain dead would require a ventilator since there would be no mental ability for basic functions to keep alive. It would be better to say seriously brain damaged, extremely diminished capacity or even the “ lights are on, nobody’s home” phrase you used later on. I hate to be pedantic but we thought he might be really brain dead the last 2-3 months when no one saw him.
Age and poor health is the difference.
(Someone needs to answer seriously, because too many people fall for this shit.)
People don’t seem to realize that camera lens and lighting can vastly change the color, depth, and shape of your image. Most of the time if you see some differences in between two pictures of the same person it’s because they were taken with different lenses or under different lighting.
Some focal length comparisons:
Technically focal length doesn’t matter directly, only indirectly, because the phenomenon is almost entirely defined by the distance from the camera and the subject. If you have a 50mm lens and take the photo as far away as the 200mm lens, the person will look roughly the same when cropped down to the same apparent size (minus the loss of resolution from cropping and a smaller effective sensor size).
If you slap on a 200mm lens on a camera within 2 meters of your subject, though, you might not be able to focus, and if you can you wouldn’t be able to fit their entire face in frame.
But that also means our eyes, with our fixed focal lengths, can experience the same thing, by just moving closer or further away from a subject. Our visual cortex automatically adjusts a lot of things, but get up close and see someone’s ears or hair shrink in relative terms compared to their nose, or get far away and see their nose get back to a normal ratio to their eyes or ears.
Side note, this is a big reason why I don’t care for selfies. I don’t like the distortion.
But the worse looking picture is the older one.
If that is him, he’s clearly brain dead.
I think brain dead would require a ventilator since there would be no mental ability for basic functions to keep alive. It would be better to say seriously brain damaged, extremely diminished capacity or even the “ lights are on, nobody’s home” phrase you used later on. I hate to be pedantic but we thought he might be really brain dead the last 2-3 months when no one saw him.
How would we tell?
I mean, dudes mouth was just hanging open. There’s no one home.
They wheeled him to senate, but said video wasn’t allowed (gee I wonder why), and he didn’t vote.
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mvjjxfgswk2g
Huh… I didn’t realize blinking was optional. Here I am, blinking all day.