[INFO] The 5D Mark II and Barack Obama
The official photo of Barack Obama
Watching a video on the new chief photographer of Barack Obama, Pete Souza, I went to download the official portrait at the site of the White House. By viewing the EXIF data of the photo, I saw that the box was used than anything that the 5D Mark II! This is even the first official portrait done with a digital camera, the United States! Certainly, times are changing ...
Pete Souza also highlights the difficulty of being the photographer of the President, because for this portrait, still very important because it will end up in any American official and public buildings in the world, he had only five small minutes. There needs to ... 2 photos were taken with it. Fortunately he was assisted for lighting.
I think many photographers would be in his place, a nice publicity stunt when you know that there are three days' Pete Souza "was the most searched keyword on Google!
Here's the EXIF: ISO 100 - 105.0 mm - f/10 - 1/125s. Hmm ..; 105mm? may be the 24-105mm L?
Pete Souza's interview on MSNBC:
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At the same time the picture not break bricks. The excuse for 5 minutes does not justify anything, Plato is often no more time to make his images (including the famous portrait of Putin) and made image stronger.
Here it was certainly something quite artistically neutral, but it means a little tinkering. Only the position of the flag is average redundancy with the little pins etc..
In Switzerland, our consultants are experimenting in recent years federal various forms of portraits (each year the president changes and he decides who took the picture and what message it should give) http://www.admin.ch / br/dienstleistungen/00094/00095/00110/index.html lang = en I like that of 2006 and 2008.
Obama could have used his campaign slogan to inspire as a little change in his official portrait. Something a little spawning and living.
> Bretzelman: it is true that a good photographer should be able to freeze time. Even if it lasts only seconds! But the stress has to be there ...
Redundancy with the pines is almost traditional.
Americans are very classic photo. In terms of framing, sharpness etc. ... I'm not surprised the latter portrait.
The fact that he is elected president is already original! Now he must stay alive!
Anyway thank you for your last link! I fell down! I think it's great ...: http://www.admin.ch/br/dienstleistungen/00094/00095/00110/index.html?lang=fr&bild=01191
I saw this a few days ago.
What surprises me (well let's say I'm picky but this level of power ...) is that, having observed the enlarged photo on the official website, I detect a white hair of the President (under the banner of the left lapel of his jacket) and a plush white on the back straight.
Ok, I tickle but still ...
The large photo is here: http://change.gov/page/-/officialportrait.jpg
it's true! but it gives a non-listed real?
For a picture that will be, as you say, apparently, displayed everywhere I find it completely unacceptable to have been entitled to 5 minutes ... At the same time it's Obama who "takes the risk." After we see things differently: in 5 minutes he had the time to 2clichés which one of them was almost perfect so they kept him!
Or another version: he must have done tons of tests with a different subject matte skin in one place to find the right Exif because he knew he had very little time with the real subject.
And finally: it's a pro, he knows the EXIF data, control about it, has taken a rail to relax just before and ... presto!
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