I found this clip very interesting based on my own experience. Several years ago I made a standard head and shoulders self-portrait using a digital camera's self-timer on a tripod. Thanks to the almost instant feedback digital photography affords, I found that based on the outcome of each photo I was able to learn to relax my overall expression to produce a much more pleasing image of myself through the course of the session. While it was obviously me in both pictures, the difference from the first to last was apparent and striking and it produced the most objectively handsome image of myself I've ever seen. (Don't take that as a full of myself comment, it's all relative.) I cannot say whet...

I found this clip very interesting based on my own experience. Several years ago I made a standard head and shoulders self-portrait using a digital camera's self-timer on a tripod. Thanks to the almost instant feedback digital photography affords, I found that based on the outcome of each photo I was able to learn to relax my overall expression to produce a much more pleasing image of myself through the course of the session. While it was obviously me in both pictures, the difference from the first to last was apparent and striking and it produced the most objectively handsome image of myself I've ever seen. (Don't take that as a full of myself comment, it's all relative.) I cannot say whether or not this experience has affected the way I present my face to the public, but I would say without question that it positively affected my self-image, and it seems to me to have had a positive value in my personal inter-dynamic with others. Thanks for a great clip which helps me better understand my own observation of my own experience. I would be interested to read of the outcomes others have if they might choose to undertake a similar project. I also find interesting the questions this opens the doors to. Why is it some people are so photogenic and essentially never look bad in a photo? In the process I undertook would someone with a lot of in-the-mirror face-time have a lesser outcome than I felt I did? How does the frequency of exposure and personal observation that a celebrity might experience bear on the general value of the process the clip suggests? Are some individual personalities better equipped to cope with the changes of self-understanding the process might reveal in the long term than others might be? It is all quite fascinating.