@maddiefuzz I’ll go a little further: people don’t perceive people the same way we perceive photographs of people. Part of that is the flattening from three dimensions to two. Part of it is that people are always in motion. Part of that is just because our brains are crazy wonderful biased fruitcakes that perceive people far less literally than they do photographs.

A lot of portrait photography is working around these limitations to try and recreate a perception of a person in a photographic medium. It’s not easy.

I can take half a dozen photos of someone and make them look like half a dozen different people. They’re all ~accurate records of light striking photosensitive medium. They all have very little to do with what people see when they look at you.