How about "stronger" or "weaker"? Does that help?
Better!
The best
modifiers for perspective I have heard of (
read) was from a ’60s
Amateur Photographer magazine where their technical editor referred to the visual effects of having the subject very close to the camera as “
steep” and those much further away “
shallow”.
I searched for
steep perspective on Google, and found
this article which is pretty good, apart from a stray
it’s. The
author in this book makes the
very important point that the distance from the image to the viewer’s eye influences the perspective also.
There are plenty of other pages to look at if interested.
My first comment on the two pictures which created this brouhaha:
the drawing of the first (film) portrait suits the sitter better; what I find unattractive is the
contrast, rather soot and whitewash (nothing to do with perspective, I know).
the second makes the subject look more round-faced, but that is also an artifact of the much softer lighting. Technically, though, I much prefer this rendering.
Geeky explanation of perspective (PDF).