


We also asked him if he considers that there is any possible merit in soliciting profile views as an anti-deepfake measure during videoconferencing calls. We asked Sensity’s CEO and Chief Scientist Giorgio Patrini if the experiments and tests included the subject making 90° turns from camera as part of the deception technique, and he confirmed † that they did not. However, none of the accompanying videos show the subject in acute profile. While a photographer can use light to express emotion, such an image would likely not be fit for your expressed purpose…The main reason photographers don’t take these shots is because there are so many more angles that have more to offer in a traditional photo shoot.’ ‘ profile shot is one of the least flattering ones and the one where not much can be expressed either by the model or the camera angle. My guess is that a profile shot will do this job in only very few and specific cases and mostly only in instances where a concept image is needed.’ ‘Most customers of stock sites will look for images that connect with their end subject. Ioana Grecu, Content Manager for the stock image domain Dreamstime, comments to us on the slim demand for the side-on view: Photographers will fight a crowd to escape them picture editors can’t sell them (or can’t sell them as well as a ‘real’ photo) and they are in general charmless and prosaic representations of us that many of us literally would barely even recognize as ourselves. Besides clinicians, VFX artists, forensics experts and police authorities, nobody wants profile shots.
