According to the Nikon’s survey, it is quite an ordinary situation.
The brand has counted that 25% of us want to retake a family portrait, 21% dream to change a high school graduation photo and a driver's license photo, while 15% think that a wedding photo could be more perfect.
At that, 79% of people surveyed believe they looked better in person than in pictures. This data was consistent in responses from both men and women; 79% of women preferring the real deal to a photograph, along with 78% of men.
What are the main reasons to be so unsatisfacted?
At first, the most prominent feature people disliked about themselves in a photo was weight with 26% of answers. Other features that bothered people in pictures were smile or teeth (18%), red-eye (16%), wrinkles (8%), shiny skin (7%) and pale skin (6%).
The survey for Nikon was conducted by Wakefield Research among 1 000 nationally representative Americans ages 18 and older (August, 2009).
