Damn, technology.
I've noticed that people tend to look more attractive in pictures taken with a phone than in pictures taken with an actual camera. Then again...who carries around a camera anymore when everyday moments can be captured with a small, compact iPhone? With the growth of Instagram, it seems that everyone has become an instantaneous photographer. The cool filters turn an ordinary picture into a work of art that looks like it should be displayed in a gallery.
Don't get me wrong--many of the cameras on today's phones take surprisingly good shots (in well-lit, natural envrionments). But there are still pictures that people take in poor-lit places with a camera phone or with a shitty, 2 MP webcam. These are the pictures that inspired me to write this post. People hide behind these pixelated, grainy photos because they create an air of mystery, I think. No one wants to clearly show what they are doing but show enough [in a picture] to make others comment, "omg where r u?" I know for a fact that every one of you who has taken a drunken photo with your phone is thankful that the poor quality masked your inebriated ass enough so that you can still upload the picture to facebook (to partially show off to the world that you're out there having fun. Don't worry I do this too. Don't we all?) without feeling too embarrassed by the way you look. And girls: don't tell me you haven't defaulted a grainy or blurry picture because you looked good since the low megapixel count covered up all your blemishes and imperfections and made you look [almost] perfect.
Here's a visual of the point I was trying to get across, since I suck at words:
** The asterisk denotes the few cases of people who look like models in high quality photos because these pictures are either edited, the people look nice all the time, or the people are actually models.
Don't hide behind a blurry picture because everyone would rather see your true beauty without all the noise!
Happiness comes when we stop searching for it.
