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Photographs are the most persuasive and least reliable thing in this field, so here is how to interrogate one, including the ones on this account. First, lighting. Moving a light source lower or turning it off to one side deepens or erases a shadow entirely, and shadow is most of what you think you are seeing in a jawline or a tear trough. Second, distance and lens. A phone held closer enlarges the nose relative to the face; the same nose photographed at the same distance on the same lens is the only fair comparison. Third, position. A chin lifted three degrees changes an apparent profile more than many operations do. Fourth, interval.

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Photographs are the most persuasive and least reliable thing in this field, so here is how to interrogate one, including the ones on this account. First, lighting. Moving a light source lower or turning it off to one side deepens or erases a shadow entirely, and shadow is most of what you think you are seeing in a jawline or a tear trough. Second, distance and lens. A phone held closer enlarges the nose relative to the face; the same nose photographed at the same distance on the same lens is the only fair comparison. Third, position. A chin lifted three degrees changes an apparent profile more than many operations do. Fourth, interval. A photograph at six weeks is showing you swelling as well as surgery, and the honest interval for a rhinoplasty is twelve months at minimum. This pair was taken on the same camera, same lens, same distance, same lighting rig and same head position, twelve months apart, which is why they are worth looking at. This is one person's healing and one person's anatomy. It is not a prediction, and no photograph anywhere is.