Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Mar 26 2025 - More Bad Portraits

 

How many selfies do you take each day?  Each week?  Supposedly, the world population takes 92 million selfies a day. There's a type of selfie named a .5 selfie.  That's the picture that is angled above one's head and the taker's arm uses up quite a lot of the space in the picture. It is a wide-angle lens picture so the photo will have distortions.  You could be very w-i-d-e. 

Maybe it is previous generations who complain about how they look in photos and that they don't like getting their picture taken?  Looking at the headlines, it seems that if one has a "photogenic" face with symmetrical proportions, etc photography is a good thing.  And for the rest, too bad, lots of complaining.

Besides the overall statistic, I wondered the "how many pictures could there really be" question.  Here are some answers from Pixsy.com - they looked at a getty Images data. 
 

  1. Donald Trump - 463,574 images
  2. Barack Obama - 336,823 images
  3. Queen Elizabeth II - 230,495 images
  4. Kate Middleton - 155,505 images
  5. Roger Federer - 149,576 images
  6. Prince William - 148,784 images
  7. Joe Biden - 143,412 images
  8. Hillary Clinton - 135,501 images
  9. Andy Murray - 132,295 images
  10. Prince Charles - 130,334 images
  11. Serena Williams - 125,257 images
  12. Elton John - 123,080 images
  13. Prince Harry - 119,379 images
  14. Jennifer Lopez - 107,997 images
  15. Paris Hilton - 101,438 images
  16. Jimmy Kimmel - 100,520 images
  17. Bill Murray - 92,194 images
  18. Rihanna - 86,247 images
  19. Jimmy Fallon - 82,464 images
  20. Camilla Parker-Bowles - 79,602 images
Who would guess Donald Trump would show up as having the most photographs on Getty Images. Do a search for pictures of donald trump and click on the images view. The array is astonishingly awful.  His hair is prominently in all directions and then there's that orange makeup on his face. It seems uncanny how he seems to show up in so many places.

This is a close-up of a Gerbera flower - they always take wonderful pictures. 
 
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