Before being trapped at home by the epidemic, I had the "privilege" to experience a remote work experience, and the face composed of pixels in the cyberspace became the most important basis for colleagues to recognize my state.
Whenever I turn on the camera, I always have to experience a scream from my colleagues, and I look like I have my own soft light, highly polished skin, and the effect is outstanding. Every time my colleagues teased me with a new filter, I was embarrassed to say that it was due to my camera, which I never erased.
Bars like this | wikimedia commons
This made me wonder, in this moment when webcams are becoming more and more common, do we only have beauty and filters on the line to become beautiful?
Choose a camera, the worse the better
Skin polishing is one of people's favorite beauty features, and if you don't have to do this with technology, you can try a remote meeting with a laptop instead of a mobile phone, or simply choose a camera that is a little worse.
In today's mobile phone front camera has reached 40 million pixels, the camera pixels of laptops are still stuck at a low level of an order of magnitude. This is determined by the shape of the laptop, in order to pursue thin and light and large screen, the laptop leaves little room for the camera and related components. Taking the Macbook series as an example, the thinnest part of the MacBook Air (11-inch) body released in 2011, that is, the top of the display where the camera is located, is only 3.77 mm, and the distance of the top bezel is not more than 5 mm. By 2020, the MacBook Pro, the top bezel has almost disappeared, and it has to set a "bang" to place the camera.
MacBook Pro Bangs | unsplash
Most of the camera components that can adapt to such a small space only have small sensors and low-pixel lenses, making the final image blurry, noisy, and poor light. In addition, the use of laptop cameras is small, and the speed of computer replacement is much lower than that of mobile phones, which also hinders its development.
But if you just want to pursue the effect of skin grinding, this type of camera may be able to do it in a different way. After all, the skin grinding is actually a Gaussian blur after highlight enhancement, and low-quality cameras can easily achieve this hazy effect. However, when using it, we must pay attention to whether the light is sufficient, otherwise the effect will be too dark, not only can not see the face imperfections, but also directly can not see the face.
Selfies in the Internet café era directly peel your facial features to disappear | Screenshots of web pages
Also pay attention to the location of the camera. The height of the laptop is not high enough, and when placed on the desktop, the camera is basically in the middle and bottom of the face, forming a top-up shooting effect that you dare not use for selfies. There are also some manufacturers that pursue the ultimate large screen, or are in privacy considerations, will hide the camera under the screen or even the keyboard, and strive to be the master of nostril close-up.
The camera hidden at the keyboard | Station B ID: BlueTree_STUDIO
Therefore, you can choose to raise the computer so that the camera is at eye level or slightly higher. But don't pad too high, it will make your intention to show a small face too obvious.
Believe in the Light
Come on, you'll soon have a perfect and natural meeting experience. But before that, pay attention to the light.
Make sure you have a light source in front of you, it's a natural whitening tool, the more light you have, the whiter you are (if you're good at this mouthful). It is recommended to prioritize the use of natural light, which will make your complexion bright and natural, and sitting in front of the window is a good choice. However, sometimes the direct sunlight is too harsh, and you can also choose to let the light shine on the side of the face to increase the three-dimensional feeling of the face. But be sure not to turn your back on the light source, it will make you black, and don't be too bright, otherwise when paired with a low-pixel camera, it is easy to harvest a face-to-face horror experience.
Easy way to go directly to a ring light | stand cool helo
If there is no natural light condition, just put a light on the front of you to ensure that the face is bright. For remote meetings, such lighting is enough, but if you want to be more advanced, you can also refer to the lighting of the small live broadcast room: arrange the main light in the direction of the slightly sideways of the face, illuminate the face while achieving whitening; behind the person, open a slightly darker light opposite the main light, shape the outline, and supplement the shadow generated by the main light. Or place a ring light directly in the lower center of the eye to illuminate your face while creating a distinct circular view in your eyes that will make your eyes look vivid. (But I have a hard time imagining what kind of meeting is worth yours like this)
Warm light soft, white light white | stand cool helo
You can also shape your skin tone by changing the color of the light. In optics, the color of the light source is defined by color temperature, and the lower the color temperature, the more proportion of red light in the spectrum, the warmer the color; the higher the proportion of blue light, the colder the color. At sunrise and sunset, the sunlight is low color temperature/warm tone, the value is around 2000K-3000, and at noon it rises to about 5500K, illuminating the earth white.
In portrait photography, the skin tone is mostly treated as a warm tone, which makes people look rosy and natural. So the next time you have a meeting, you can choose to turn on white weave lamps, halogen lamps or fluorescent lamps (these are all low color temperatures), or try yellow light instead. If you are willing to toss and turn, you can also try to use colored lights, colored curtains, or simply paste colored paper on the table lamp to create a good phase shift effect.
Visual effects in different contexts | Station B ID: Film and Television Hurricane
Finally, choose a seat and sit down. It is best not to sit against the wall, but to choose a position that is some distance away from the background, and if the door is closed, open it to reveal the space behind the door (if there is no strange display behind it). Viewers like to have a sense of depth, and it is recommended that you fully display the background of the environment in which you are located, so clean up the room, make it look less cluttered, and also add points to your image.
Don't always stare at yourself, look at your colleagues more
Since you don't want the beauty function to automatically add light makeup and slim your face, it is necessary to clean yourself up. At least the most basic cleaning. Whether it is online or offline, as long as you meet people, you must always have this awareness.
You can fiddle with the hairstyle, with the focus on making the face look more symmetrical. Research suggests that humans prefer symmetrical faces, which comes from the needs of human evolution, and a symmetrical face often means less bacterial and parasite infection and more "health", so aesthetics are carved into genes. If your face has a very serious asymmetry and you care more, you can try covering the corresponding area with a hairstyle.
Not enough hair, beard is also OK| stand cool helo
You can also apply a little makeup, focusing on the eyes, the current camera autofocus, will prefer the area of the eyes - this is the focus of the lens will always maintain clarity and sharpness, the most attractive to others to "watch" you. Clothing, if it is not mandatory to wear work clothes for remote meetings, you can prefer bright solid colors, which can make you look better, and you will not be distracted by the pattern of the clothes.
The effect of different costumes | stand cool helo
The next step is to adjust the distance between the face and the screen, it is best to sit at the camera 45-60cm, too close will make you look strangely proportioned, too far away... If your home is big enough...
Today's mobile phone and laptop front cameras are mostly wide-angle and have short focal lengths. This makes the part closer to the camera look larger, and if you close up the face, the portrait will have a retracted face and a broad nose and forehead. At this time, if you shoot a picture above the chest, it is best to be an arm's length away from the camera.
From left to right, the focal length gradually lengthens (17mm, 36mm, 100mm) | Station Kuhelo
Greetings to the next screen across the | GIPHY
Of course, after studying all this, it is likely that you will decide not to do anything, after all, remote meetings are more important than communication, acting as a connection when you can't physically contact. Well, just open the meeting link and say hello to your colleagues on the other side.
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Author: Ruiyue
EDIT: Sleeper
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