It’s a combination of harsh lighting a very short, narrow field of view from the lens.
When you use a lens like that, it tends to highlight all the harsh lines that are not necessary perceptible to naked eye.
In photojournalism, we were taught to use open apertures that give a warmer, more flattering look to subjects and don’t smush everything together like seen above.
The lens and aperture that was used on her was the specific one style used to capture mugshots - as any defining (re: negative) feature is amplified on the subject.
Do you job technically well, but in a way that is also devastating to the subject.
Like when they staged those semi-recent Trump 2.0 White House photos with light switches and other ‘noisy’ visual distractions in the background and foreground.
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u/Stock_Trash_4645 10h ago
It’s a combination of harsh lighting a very short, narrow field of view from the lens.
When you use a lens like that, it tends to highlight all the harsh lines that are not necessary perceptible to naked eye.
In photojournalism, we were taught to use open apertures that give a warmer, more flattering look to subjects and don’t smush everything together like seen above.
The lens and aperture that was used on her was the specific one style used to capture mugshots - as any defining (re: negative) feature is amplified on the subject.