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How hard is it to just put your phone on video mode and just walk up to her and shove it in her face?
I'm afraid you're expecting too much.
For one thing, I feel like the people taking the pictures care far more about Chris than they do the people he's with.
But setting that aside, while imaging technology is continuously improving, we're still not to the level of "zoom and enhance" features of fiction -- especially in video mode.
"Full" HD is 1920x1080 pixels or about 2 megapixels -- comparable to a still camera in 1999. Even if it's set to 4K, that's barely over 8 megapixels -- so call it a 20-year-old still camera.
Then there's the crop factor. Cell phone cameras have fairly wide angle lenses, so unless you're very close to the subject, you'll have to "digitally zoom" in, which is really just cropping down the image, cutting that already meager resolution down significantly.
And say you get up close, well, then you have to deal with the blur factor. Jam a camera in someone's face and they're going to react with movement -- and if you try to be inconspicuous about it by casually walking by pretending you're talking on the phone, then
you are moving. It'll become a challenge to find a frame that isn't obscured by motion blur under those conditions.
I am similarly frustrated by the lack of high quality images of this little weirdo's face, but it's just not very easy to do.