Taking pictures from close up with a wide angle lens gives a distorted perspective, with your nose looking bigger and your face rounder. You don’t usually look at people that close by eye so it looks unnatural and unattractive. That’s why photographers usually use a lens with a longer-than-standard focal length for portraits, i.e., they have the subject stand away from the camera and use a lens with a slightly narrower field of view.
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