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What Focal Length Actually Does to a Face (And Why Your Kit Lens Is Lying to You)
I spent a long time convinced that bad portraits were a lighting problem. I’d move the softbox, try a reflector, mess with the angle, and still get shots that felt slightly off. Faces looked a little bloated, or the background felt weirdly compressed, or the whole image just didn’t match what I was seeing with my own eyes. The real culprit, most of the time, was the lens I was standing behind and how far away I was from the subject.