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Yes there is.
Post #3 is an indication that it's not what biden wants you to see, thus the title of the thread.
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.
The photo was released by the White House press corps.
Use of perspective and wide angle lenses that alter perspective is in fact manipulative.
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 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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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.
You are the OP, correct?
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.
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.
Wide-Angle Oddity: Giant Bidens Meet Tiny Carters (Published 2021)
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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.
