official presidential (of USA) portrait taken with a digital camera

quilmore

http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/new_official_portrait_released/

full pic with full EXIF: http://change.gov/page/-/officialportrait.jpg

l pearse

What a job he has in front of him.....
Compare this shot with one that will be taken in 4 or 5 years time & the man will age so fast with stress & sleepless nights....


Bush
20002008

Arciphel

According to the EXIF, taken with a 5D Mark 2 .... oh my god, i just passed into "uber-nerd" territory :eek:

mikeanywhere

Arciphel wrote: »

According to the EXIF, taken with a 5D Mark 2 .... oh my god, i just passed into "uber-nerd" territory :eek:

HAHAHA well spotted anyway!!

DaireQuinlan

I guess its not too surprising. The last official portrait was taken 8 years ago. State of the art back then was probably the nikon D-1, with an almost 3 MP sensor ... Things have come on since then :-)

Interestingly enough, even back then people were earnestly maintaining that digital had film completely trumped

nilhg

A small bit of background info

Danbo!

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

I guess its not too surprising. The last official portrait was taken 8 years ago. State of the art back then was probably the nikon D-1, with an almost 3 MP sensor ... Things have come on since then :-)

Interestingly enough, even back then people were earnestly maintaining that digital had film completely trumped

From the article:

It is the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera.

feileacan

is it me or is obama's face a bit squint?

i dont think its that a good a photo (IMHO), bit too severe looking - but i guess he has to look like that...

challengemaster

It's even better over at strobist. They've been reverse-engineering the light setup for it since yesterday!

DaireQuinlan

noblestee wrote: »

From the article:

?? I know, thats why I wrote what I did ...

smelltheglove

challnge can you link to that...

I dont like the picture of him, ok technically I dont have a problem, I don't particularily like the background, just looks like a blank wall with a flag in front and he is extremely photogenic and this just doesnt look nice!

sNarah

feileacan wrote: »

is it me or is obama's face a bit squint?

i dont think its that a good a photo (IMHO), bit too severe looking - but i guess he has to look like that...

I'd say coz he's hardly smiling... Suppose he had vaseline on his teeth 24/7 during the elections in order to get some extra votes

I do think it's strange it's the first time they use digital considering they have been around at decent quality for quit a few years now??

I wonder when the first photo of the "first puppy" will appear, since it seems to be the most important thing in the media concering Obama at this stage... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3387309/Barack-Obama-puppy-to-follow-in-pawprints-of-presidential-pets.html

Mycroft H

l pearse wrote: »

What a job he has in front of him.....
Compare this shot with one that will be taken in 4 or 5 years time & the man will age so fast with stress & sleepless nights....


Bush
20002008

No matter what the camera they were using (imo they were probably shooting film in zero one), he still looks fairly battered with plenty more wrinkles

Mycroft H

l pearse wrote: »

What a job he has in front of him.....
Compare this shot with one that will be taken in 4 or 5 years time & the man will age so fast with stress & sleepless nights....


Bush
20002008

No matter what the camera they were using (imo they were probably shooting film in zero one), he still looks fairly battered with plenty more wrinkles