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by Dr. Vladimir GrigoryantsPhone cameras and selfies have became very popular nowadays. However, the phone cameras distort the face and nose making them wider and longer. A number of patients before surgery complain that they do not like their noses in their photos. Also, some patient after rhinoplasty complain that their noses still looks wide or long in the photos taken with phone cameras.
This problem has become so common that some surgeons conducted a study and found that the nose appeared about 30 % wider and the tip of the nose 7 % wider than real life images when photos were taken up close. This study was published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery.
So, it is very important to understand this distortion and learn how to analyze rhinoplasty results and how to take facial photographs to produce as close to real life images as possible.
The lens on phone cameras is too short for facial photography. Taking face photos with short lens cameras and up close results in the whole face, nose, and eyes appearing wider and face and nose longer than in real life. This facial widening distortion also causes the ears to disappear on the photographs. Additionally, any nasal asymmetry maybe exaggerated due to stretching. If you are using a small camera or phone camera, you need to step back 5 feet and zoom in to diminish this stretching effect. However, it is best to use a DSLR camera with a 50mm lens (total focal length of 85mm) to get a real life image (without stretching), which is what is recommended for facial photography and what I use in my office to take before and after photos.
If you do not see your ears on your photo as much as you do in real life, then your nose/ face are stretched by the camera.
Example 1:
The image on the left (85mm) results in no distortion and ears show. The images on the right taken with a short lens camera up close show the face and nose wider/longer and ears not showing.
THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THIS IS MEASURING WITH A RULER AND STOP TRYING TO ROPE HOWEVER IF YOU HAVE A LONG MIDFACE BY MEASURING WITH A RULER
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