Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Super Weird Photo Of Biden u0026 Carter Explained" video.

That's more or less what you'd expect from an extreme wide angle lens. I'm guessing the photographer used it because a longer lens wouldn't have been able to capture all of them in such a small space. Jimmy's feet are huge, and the rest of his legs get proportionally more normal size as he's got his feet stretched out in front of him and his upper body is relatively straight up in comparison. This is a lens effect that's often used by pornographers on foot fetish sites to make the feet look bigger if they want to emphasize that. This is also why you don't typically get flattering portraits with a wide angle lens as it tends to make the nose look super big.A portrait lens tends to be around about 85-100mm long as that gives proportions that are much more flattering. To make matters worse,t here are basically no shadows in the shot, which makes the effect even more unsettling than it otherwise would be.
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