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IMHO only an ego maniac has to manipulate photos to make himself look like a giant.
Yes there is.There’s no photo manipulation. You just don’t understand how camera angles and perspectives work. Biden is 5” taller than Zelensky. He looks quite a bit bigger in both photos.
Post #3 is an indication that it's not what biden wants you to see, thus the title of the thread.Carter is a transcendent and inspirational figure, a servant leader we should all emulate. Zelensky, 5'7", is a heroic giant among men. That is what i see.
Using a wide angle lens does not constitute manipulating the photo. In the case of the Carters, it’s not the wide angle lens that gives that effect - it’s the fact that the Carters are sitting. The perspective effects you describe only happen when the subjects are at different distances from the camera, which is not the case with the Bidens and the Carters.Yes there is.
The one with the Carters was already shown to the use of a ‘wide angle’ lens making them look as small as children and I showed the true height comparison in the OP.
The staged photo used a lower angle with giant Joe closest exaggerated the difference in height.
It is all about perspective.
The photo was released by the White House press corps.Post #3 is an indication that it's not what biden wants you to see, thus the title of the thread.
Use of perspective and wide angle lenses that alter perspective is in fact manipulative.Using a wide angle lens does not constitute manipulating the photo. In the case of the Carters, it’s not the wide angle lens that gives that effect - it’s the fact that the Carters are sitting. The perspective effects you describe only happen when the subjects are at different distances from the camera, which is not the case with the Bidens and the Carters.
I meant in response to someone else saying, "Carter is a transcendent and inspirational figure, a servant leader we should all emulate." Biden didn't seem to want to Carters to be seen that way, thus the pic in post #3.The photo was released by the White House press corps.
It was widely disseminated, it is EXACTLY what Joe wanted to be seen.
The one with Zelensky wasn’t even taken by the White House photographer. It was taken by someone working for the European Pressphoto Agency.IMHO only an ego maniac has to manipulate photos to make himself look like a giant.
No, it looks like the camera angle and the camera lens itself makes objects in the foreground look larger and make objects in the distance smaller.
I’m not working half as hard as you are addressing me personally.Come on, hislegacy. You are working too hard to find a criticism of Biden.
You are the OP, correct?I’m not working half as hard as you are addressing me personally.
Thank you for the biology and photo manipulation lessons.
That is exactly what I am talking about.
The one with Zelensky wasn’t even taken by the White House photographer. It was taken by someone working for the European Pressphoto Agency.
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It was the only to take the photo when the room is too small to show the four of them with the elderly Carters sitting in their chairs.Yes there is.
The one with the Carters was already shown to the use of a ‘wide angle’ lens making them look as small as children and I showed the true height comparison in the OP.
The staged photo used a lower angle with giant Joe closest exaggerated the difference in height.
It is all about perspective.
The photos in the OP do not look 'manipulated' per se but are simply how photos appear thanks to the flat sensor in the camera.I’m not working half as hard as you are addressing me personally.
Thank you for the biology and photo manipulation lessons.
That is exactly what I am talking about.
Opinions vary.The photos in the OP do not look 'manipulated' per se but are simply how photos appear thanks to the flat sensor in the camera.
And Biden is taller than Zelensky, not that it matters.
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The answer can be found in Mr. Carter’s gigantic shoes, said Pete Souza, a former chief official White House photographer for President Barack Obama. Compared to the rest of him they look huge.“That to me is an indication that the foreground was distorted by a super-wide-angle lens,” he said.Such lenses can be helpful when a photographer is trying to shoot several people in a small room and cannot get far back enough to get everyone in the same frame with another lens. But they are notorious for distorting proportions, Mr. Souza said.Jaron Schneider, the editor in chief of PetaPixel, a photography and camera news website, had a similar theory.“It’s called perspective distortion,” he said.Wide-angle lenses make objects closer to the camera appear to be much larger than objects that are even just a tiny bit farther away.Because the Carters are leaning back, the wide-angle lens exaggerates the few inches between them and the Bidens, Mr. Schneider said. Had the Bidens and Carters been seated on exactly the same plane, this effect would not have been so striking. This is why the two men’s shoes seem to be on a similar scale.
Some asked why the Carter Center would release a distorted photo, or why it was not edited to remove the distortion.
“That would be completely forbidden,” Mr. Mills said. Official White House photographers are supposed to abide by ethical rules similar to those followed by photojournalists, he said.
Opinions vary.
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