Official Obama presidential portrait released
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Jan 14, 2009 7:30pm
This really isn't big news or anything, but I thought the description on the official Change.gov site was pretty cool and very symbolic.
Change.gov:
Today we are releasing the new official portrait for President Barack Obama.
It was taken by Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer.
It is the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera.
Awesome. I imagine John McCain's official photographer would have used something similar to this. I kid. I kid. Click here for the full, hi-res photo.
This comment from a HuffPo reader sums up my thoughts exactly.
I love the moment though. It captures him at this time, a smile for his love of the country, a direct look for his honesty and integrity, a slightly furrowed brow understanding the enormity of what he faces.
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lol flagpin!
how tacky.
way to go, patriot.
its fitting all repigs own one!
I hope it doesn't turn into this again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-y2QghS2gU
That is one scary video of ignorance gone awry!!! Think what they will be when they are grown..........oh, wait.......we already know the answer to that..
And their leader got busted for sleeping with a male prostitute (Ted haggard, not George Bush).
I'm sorry if that's the first time you've seen that clip. It is disturbing.
..and it strikes me as being ghastly and offensive to all of my most human of sensibilities.
Apparently, this is one timeless video.. and a keeper in my collection. Thanks, curt
Creating the next generation of 'Murkin jihadists; great...
Brainwash city! This clip is a perfect example of factors that are causing this country to go down the tubes! Can you imaging these kids when the truth about their "hero" comes out. Their response will be to deny it (hey, they can't rationalize it, that's for sure).
but I sent it to Paint and took off the damned pin.
Mr. Obama, you can be so nerdy at times.
Thanks! I'll have it framed in the next few days.
Where's the side-view?
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Obama is wearing a blue tie; as opposed to the GOP, which wears red ties.
Isn't it funny how you can tell the parties apart by the colors of their ties.
by the number of teeth.
.
Yup.
Everything in place.
A smile (a must)
A direct look - good good.
Lips pursed - shows acceptable level of tension.
Slightly (not overly) furrowed brow. (shows concern)
And best of all...
The flag pin.
The enduring symbol of right-wing expression of patriotism - nailed onto a suit.
Perfect.
Do people actually keep a picture of the president in their home? I can't even imagine doing that. I've lived through 12 presidents, and I've never owned a picture of one......nor would I want to....
these days either...
......whew.......thank goodness!!!....:)
I keep it in my bathroom.
http://www.baronbob.com/bushtoiletpaper.htm
My dad told me once that when he was growing up, there was a picture of FDR hanging on the wall.
As portraits to, I think this one is just ordinary. It is well exposed, but has little if any style. The flag in the background is problematic - not out of focus enough to be a subtle suggestion, but in focus enough to be distracting.
There is also a technical problem that will cause this image to appear undersaturated on most web browsers. The metadata embedded in the image show that the file is in and RGB color space more suitable for higher end printing, but not well matched to the web. It should be in sRGB and a lot more people will see something closer to how it was intended.
... of being subjected to that smirking simian who could be Alfred E. Neuman's twin, it'll be nice to watch and listen to this intelligent, telegenic statesman.
Hey, Wanton Boy, you lying sack of shit! A shoe AND a middle finger for ya!
The reduced size version posted here looks terrible. Bad sharpening or compression artifacts. And I'm not impressed by the full-sized version, either--the softbox-shaped highlights in the eyes are too obvious. ;)
which digital camera does the main press photog of the white house use? nikon or canon. that's kind of like the big debate when i was a kid, gillette or schick, ford or chevy, republican or democrat, you know the mindset of good vs. evil. pretty much bullshit, but as a person who makes his living with photography, i still would like to know his camera and lens preference.
By the way, McCain's photographer was planning to use a 12 inch by 18 in Eastman BOX CAMERA... exposing glass negatives... coated with Cyanotype chemistry. The BLUE cast on the original image would have been presented to the world press as an expression of bi-partisanship... even though only print labs owned by Republican voters would have gotten federal contracts to make authorized copies (which would have cost $69.00 each.)
That old camera using glass plates and a liquid emulsion could achieve a level of detail that new digital cameras are only now approaching.
And I have to say that a pet peeve of mine is referring to the chemicals used as the chemistry. I don't know how it arose that photographers apply the name of the science to the physical materials, but it has always irked me.
...at least part of the time. EXIV of Souza's photos of Obama taken at the Supreme Court (on Change.gov) were with a 5D and 35mm lens.
Judging by the camera straps emblazened with the camera maker's logo, I think it's a pretty even split. That said, I've always been partial to Canon cameras.
or does he appear to be leaning left, just a little?
Hmmmmm....He's sitting a little left of center, I'd say
Depends on your point of view.
"Who has put pubic hair on my
Cokelapel?"You do exist! And I thank you for this moment.
GOD, please, bless America.
It was a tough rough eight years trip.
..but decent and caring human beings surely do exist!
I'm still on the fence as to where we, as a species actually originated from, but this Canadian is with you all the way when it comes to fixing much of the damage which some/so many misdirected humans have caused for the past eight years-- principally from your neck of the woods.
..what the hell.
Couldn't hurt..
Enough of GOD (guaranteed overnight delivery). Thanks, but no thanks for a blessing, because you blessed us with the Bush criminal (according to Him) and the tag along right wing Christian nutbags.
So do us a favor God, stay the hell out, no blessings--give us a break from religion.
Bill Mahar is right.
After all the flak he got from the right-wing nutjobs about wearing the flag pin, I saw no such pins in either of the Presidents Bush official photos, nor in Reagan's. Personally, I much preferred when Obama said he wanted to express his patriotism in his actions rather than his jewelry - but maybe that was more than a "sound bite society" could handle.
is being made about the flag pin by people on this post who seem to fret about it just as much as the pundits did when he refused to wear one. He wasn't a true american according to their line. Now he has one and he isn't liberal enough.
Welcome to the freak show. I wonder... maybe "Away With All Pests!" was right after all. Anybody study communist China at the university level?
By the way, I do not recite the pledge!
why thats unamerican!
If so doesn't matter to me. You are irrelevant anyway! Pretend liberalist.
well no more then your problem with anyones observations of people noteing that its the repigs who run around sporting chinese made imitation gold american flag pins! as for as being irellevant by you who cares? pretend liberalist? sonny your opinion of me keeps me up at night worrying about it!
You make very little sense.
now im dissapointed!perhaps since you very seldom type over one or two sentences on a post , that you cant read any more then two sentences at once!
... for federal offices to have a picture of the president somewhere.
I know the GOP sends out photos of their candidates to donors. (The couple that owned our house before us were apparently big GOP boosters, and we still get mail for them ... even though they've both passed on, the GOP is still asking them for dosh.)
Besides, if conservatives were wetting themselves over flag pins, I'm sure there were ample numbers of them getting all excited over an official picture of #43.
Obama was born to be president. What a stark contrast to Bush.
Obama looks engaged, intelligent and present. Bush looks like the missing link between apes and homosapiens.
who is most ape-like, isn't it?
...stop.
"I love the moment though. It captures him at this time, a smile for his love of the country, a direct look for his honesty and integrity, a slightly furrowed brow understanding the enormity of what he faces."
Stop projecting so much. I am sorry, it's just a picture. Stop the cult of personality bit now. He is just a man who was left a s!@# sandwich by an extreme right wing fanatic and his administration.
Silent Patriot (we wish):
McCain's portrait would have been better with that view camera. So before you go making comments on technology that you know nothing about, do some research.
I have a view camera (film or digital use), four SLR film cameras and one pretty good digital camera. While there are many conveniences to digital, long lasting archival ability is not one of them. For the equivalent money, you still can get a higher quality image on film--especially in a straight on portrait shot.
Even without knowing the the exact specs of each camera or the exactly resolution, film simply captures life in a way digital will never be able to. It's like the difference between an email and a handwritten letter.
Make sure he has his copy for his desk
fap fap fap fap fap....
Gonna look really good on hanging on the walls next to all them white fellers. Especially Huckleberry Bush.
It says something about the man's integrity that this image doesn't seem to have been photoshopped. You can see a hair on his suit, and his dimple by his nose has a zit-like glare -- all very easily removed in Photoshop. But I want the truth! And it's served up here! Way to go!
Not at all like the dark menacing one with the grinning chimp, I for one look foreward to seeing this picture in place in both my battalion HQ and my Company HQ. Hopefully they'll take the photo it will be replacing out to the burn barrel and burn it
http://www.davidmacaluso.com/obama.php
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