{"id":20840,"date":"2018-03-09T11:52:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20840"},"modified":"2018-03-09T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:52:03","slug":"your-nose-isnt-really-as-big-as-it-looks-in-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/your-nose-isnt-really-as-big-as-it-looks-in-selfies\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Nose Isn&rsquo;t Really As Big As It Looks in Selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/1\/17067176\/selfies-nose-jobs-plastic-surgery-rhinoplasty-wide-angle-distortion\">Rachel Becker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/1\/17067176\/selfies-nose-jobs-plastic-surgery-rhinoplasty-wide-angle-distortion\">\n<p>Last year, more than half of plastic surgeons were approached by patients who wanted to look better in selfies, according to a survey by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aafprs.org\/media\/stats_polls\/m_stats.html\">American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Most smartphone cameras have wide-angle lenses, says <em>The Verge&rsquo;s<\/em> creative director James Bareham, and close-ups with wide-angle lenses cause distortion that makes objects closer to the camera &mdash; like, say, a nose &mdash; look larger. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s kind of one of the basics of photography: don&rsquo;t shoot portraits on a wide-angle lens because you will look terrible,&rdquo; Bareham says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Becker: Last year, more than half of plastic surgeons were approached by patients who wanted to look better in selfies, according to a survey by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. [&#8230;] Most smartphone cameras have wide-angle lenses, says The Verge&rsquo;s creative director James Bareham, and close-ups with wide-angle lenses cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[248,152,1428,31,1573,153,989],"class_list":["post-20840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-camera","tag-google-pixel","tag-ios","tag-iphone-x","tag-photography","tag-samsung-galaxy-note"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20841,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840\/revisions\/20841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}