Comments on: Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/ The Official Blog of OkCupid.com Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:49:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.7 By: Vanity http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-34358 Fri, 13 May 2011 06:22:06 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-34358 One aspect of this article is complete BOLOGNA. IPHONES TAKE ABSOLUTELY HORRID PHOTOS & USUALLY DISTORT ONE’S FACE DRASTICALLY. I am the owner of an iPhone. When I had other camera phones, I would usually take my pics with the camera facing ME & just snap the picture & have a lovely photo. With the shitty ass IPHONE however, I have to take all my damn pics in the MIRROR because the camera is sooooo terrible. And YES, it is the CAMERA, for all you smart asses out there. Nevermind how horrible the front facing camera is. Everyone I know with this phone hates the crappy camera so I have no clue how it landed a high spot on that chart. Even my mother who is freaking STUNNING, anyone who sees her almost breaks their necks, even SHE can barely manage to take a good pic with this stupid phone. & she’s always been photogenic. Point is, the camera sucks. The rest of this article however is inarguably fascinating & very logical. People don’t know how much goes into GOOD pictures. Why do you think models are photographed in perfect lighting set up by highly paid professionals & have their pictures taken with expensiveeeee equipment just to later be photoshopped??

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By: Brett_cgb http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-34325 Wed, 11 May 2011 08:46:01 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-34325 I wonder how flash pictures fare against natural (daylight), artificial (indoor), and poor color balance (just plain wrong, like lit by computer screen).

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By: MadRooster http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-34294 Mon, 09 May 2011 05:25:40 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-34294 Hrm, another factor you may not have taken into account, when making the camera brand comparison chart. dSLRs and interchangeable lens cameras are EXPENSIVE. Therefore, it stands to reason that the owners of schmancy cameras are people who actually care about photography, and who know what they’re doing, more so than the average cameraphone user. Furthermore, it also makes sense that a person who takes greater care in their appearance will also take greater care in their photography, which could skew the numbers further. To top it all off, you illustrated in another article, the correlation between income and interested partners, which could also play a role in skewing upwards, those who can afford to buy a $1000 camera.

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By: MadRooster http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-34293 Mon, 09 May 2011 05:13:10 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-34293 I know what’s going on with Kodak… I had an Easyshare, because it was cheap, and it was a TURD for taking portraits! It was especially bad for washing out or flattening photos, and the only way I ever got it to take a decent figurative shot, was to use many mcGuyverish tricks, like taping over the lens, setting it to night mode, and using many lamps. To add to my frustration with this $100 paperweight, the camera took about 45 seconds to boot, so if you happened to see a flying squirrel battling a UFO, piloted by a can of cheez wiz, you’d just have to try and make a drawing, since that would be faster than attempting to take a photo.

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By: Dude http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-34146 Mon, 02 May 2011 03:00:59 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-34146 Number of partners is not the same as number of times having sex. Person “A” may have had 12 partners but only had intercourse with each of them twice, while Person “B” may have had two partners but fucked them constantly.

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By: Inquisitive http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-33307 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:16 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-33307 For the iphone=more sex theory, I think it’s more like people who have a lot of sex buy iphones. I say this because usually people who buy iphones are extremely social and they would want a popular phone in order to socialize optimally. If that makes sense. People who buy androids or blackberrys buy them for either business or they’re satisfied with the fact that these phones fulfill personal needs. Socializing is just as fine on android and blackberry without all the little specs that apple exaggerates in order for marketing to incredibly social people. Hey, it’s working.

And I hope you people realize that this is just my opinion which is no more correct than whatever anyone else says about why sexually active people buy iphones. In any case, if you show me accurate data then awesome.

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By: Sarah http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-32875 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:41:50 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-32875 OMG…puhleez. Whi funded this ? Nikon and iPhone ? Just take a good pic with whateva and get on with it. You’re going to meet soon after contact or not – take it from there. f-stops, aperture, and iPhones ? Gimme a break

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By: Timtaro http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-30723 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:06:38 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-30723 I would totally love to have a DSLR camera. Seriously!! The zoom capabilities of DSLR cameras can focus up to 100x optical zoom!! And you can focus so well on one subject/object, and make everything else not matter in the picture. Most point and shoot cameras don’t have that focal option. I have a 35mm SLR… but it cost money to produce the film to photographs and possibly have them digitally scanned for you.

But what I think really matters, is that you find a good location for taking photographs. Whether it is of yourself, your subject, or just taking pictures of nature/life, it’s seriously about mood & location.

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By: Katja http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-27766 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:30:16 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-27766 @Tom, perhaps, but I noticed that even as a complete amateur, taking my first class in photography, I was able to totally ace assignments with a proper Nikon dSLR. The pictures were much better quality than with any other camera I tried before (which were point’n’shoots). I think it’s to do with being able to adjust the settings to suit the circumstances, which – for some reason – all the “auto” programs fail to do in cheaper digital cams. Not to mention – proper optics.

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By: busBousakam http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/comment-page-8/#comment-27172 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:58:04 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=4438#comment-27172 Great blog, amazing article. Certainly you check here again and tell about it to friends Thank you! “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” – Dorothy Parker

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