The Carter Center shared a photograph of former president Jimmy Carter and his wife Roselyn hosting a visit from President Biden and his wife Jill. The initial reaction from everyone who saw it is What's going on here? The Carters look tiny while the Bidens appear to be giants. While the Carters are in their 90s, and people often become smaller with age, that doesn't tell the entire story. Maybe it's the wide-angle lens.
The presidential photo doesn’t have any EXIF data left to indicate exactly which lens was in use when it was taken, but it was obviously a wide-angle model. To say that it was simply “lens distortion” that makes the Carters and Bidens look disproportionate seems inaccurate.
Yes, there are other things going on here. The extreme distortion without obvious facial distortion is a confluence of several factors that are explained at Popular Photography. -via PopSci