Do cameras usually make you look better or worse?
I always thought I looked worse in cameras because my htc thunderbolt had a really bad camera. I compared it to my cousins iphone 5s and I look MUCH better in that camera.
It will depend on the skill of the Photographer. You can flatter pretty much anyone in a shot, you just have to know what you're doing with light, colour, angle, capturing personality and mannerisms. Phone cameras don't have the adjustment settings of a 'proper' camera (dslr) and capture and adjust light automatically, they also don't have the ability to capture a rich and wide range of colours. Basically to put it simply, camera phones are not very good at all and will mainly be unflattering of the subject. Though even with a camera phone a skilled photographer would be able to get a better shot than an unskilled person taking the shot.
Hopefully that helps!
Good photographers make their subjects look good.
Bad photographers make their subjects look bad.
an HTC is a phone, NOT A CAMERA! And an iphone is also a phone, NOT A FLIPPIN CAMERA!
If you want good photos, learn to use a proper camera. Even a cheap point and shoot will be 100 times better than an iPhone 5S
It's all about angles
Cell phones are not good cameras and they were never know intended for portraiture.
The iPhone 5s has a well-regarded camera. Some android phones are good too. They're filling a niche where compact cameras used to reside years ago. There are still some high end compact cameras that can do a better job. Still, it's not surprising that your cousin's iPhone produces better images than an older phone.
As far as serious photography, all phone cameras suffer from very small sensors and optics that are both simple and inflexible. The lenses are wide angle, which makes them insufficient for serious portraits. (Selfies don't count as serious portraits.) These are the reasons that many photographers dismiss phone cameras out of hand.
As for cameras making you look better or worse, wide angle lenses, as I mentioned, make it harder to get a good portrait. A more capable, real camera will make it easier. That's why experienced photographers do not rely on cell phone cameras for their craft. However, those experienced photographers also know a lot about composition, lighting, exposure, and camera control. If you hand a more capable camera to someone who is used to taking pictures with a phone, the results will be substantially similar to what comes out of that person's phone.
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