As you may know, people in photography look very different from in daily life, the main reason being that a photo is a « piece » of a person only, and hopefully a yummy one lol. But our brain is used to make an overwhole physical image of a person with all the information gathered by the eyes at different moments (profile view, front view, back view, in dark, in light, at smiling or serious or crazy times ie according to emotions/feelings, in dark or light, etc). That overwhole image is the strongest, and usually averages our perception of human beauty to a quite mediocre level. We don’t like someone for just one thing, but for the averages of all his/her qualities and defects. And it’s also true, that most people are not that pretty.
But many people also…