>>4399925
whips.

>>4399925
If your strobe can't induce a stroke, you're ngmi

>>4399925
Was this taken with an OM5?

>>4399929
Most likely
>canon r5ii, r3, or r1
>sony a9iii
Because professionals want dramatically noisier cameras for some reason. Maybe it's to make us feel better about opting for aps-c?

Or, incompetent boomer left it on ttl+auto iso

>hot pixel so obvious i could see it without zooming in
right by the left ear
yikes.

>>4399933
knowing how bad most so called professional photographers are, P mode and ttl is likely

most professional photographers aren't actually any good and most of them have assistants to edit, crop to compose and do all the lighting setup. the interns are way more talented than them, and you. see: annie leibovitz. hasn't done any actual work since the 80s, just auto mode snapshits and lets her assistants sort it out.

>>4399925
It creates a certain mood that is a good fit for the subject. It works because it's Trump, but it wouldn't work for just anyone.

>>4399925
Well, it's a hell of a lot better than his last official portrait at least.
What an absolute shitter that was.

Fuck photos, we need to go back to paintings being made for official portraits of heads-of-state.

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>>4399946
Absolutely love these two.

>>4399946
>>4399947
Sperm running down the forehead in the first one, and covered in menstrual blood in the other. What is not to love?

>>4399947
Excellent. Perfectly captures both history of British empire and the subject. Old guy wearing uniform with companion butterfly standing in a shower of blood.

>>4399925
Familiarity. Mugshot rehash.

Noticing patterns even subconsciously with a slight surprise causes dopamine release which is why music and art in general relies on repetition with evolving variation.

>>4399925
Looks like a character selection screen for a WWE game.
WTF is that fucking lighting

>>4399948
Weirdo

>>4399981
it's monster lighting.

>>4399925
histrionic persona

>>4399929
Z9

>>4399925
>What makes it work?
burgers and diet coke most likely

>>4399925
look in his eyes. they're using a wide rectangular softbox for some fucking reason, which is why he's disgustingly shiny and starts to become shrouded in shadow at the bottom. it's also far too close, which is why the background is dark. there might be a reflector on the left side? that's about it.
overall just very unprofessional. maybe he brought in some of those H1B Indians to shoot it

>>4399925
>both eyes and ear in focus
There's no way to sugarcoat this, this is some amateur shit. Can't they even afford 85 f/1.2?

He knew exactly what he was doing with this photograph.

Dark background. Bottom up lighting. American flag highlighted.

He's trying to look like some sort of supervillain, but he just sort of comes across like a Stage actor in costume. I'm actually quite surprised that the photo was deemed acceptable.

>>4399925
It doesn’t. It makes him look like someone told him not to shit himself and he’s staring back at them defiantly and trying.

>>4399925
>what makes it work?
Does it work? It looks like a movie poster for captain capeshit 13

>>4399925
the colors aren't faithful in the slightest

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>>4400094
carrotman...

>>4399945
It's a good picture of him, but it's overall flat.

>>4399946
I really like this as a portrait, but damn does it ring alarm bells knowing what we now know about the left and Obama. Surely some satanic shit behind this. And the sperm on the temple... pure humiliation ritual.

>>4399947
Pretty badass for a King ngl

>>4400131
Surely. I have seen a satanic shrubbery or two in my time, and my medievally stupid morons, this is definitely one of them. I can tell by the pixels.

>>4400131
What's so satanic about foilage?

>>4400094
I think you all need to respect the considerable effort the man puts into his daily makeup regimen. Hear I fixed it fer yewww

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>>4400278
Nice job, It's indistinguishable from a typical media edit!

>>4400186
why the fuck do you think anyone wants elaboration from you? You already blew your load and made it clear you're a fucking retard on post 1. No one wants to hear more of your precious dumbass opinions you fuckin tard.

Everyone either knows Wiley's work or they don't. If they do, they don't need to hear you trying to figure it out, and if they don't, what the fuck are you doing on an art board holy shit, back to class you little urchin.

>>4399925
Levitra and this one salt water trick

>>4399925

The high camera placement makes Trump look sinister, and the spot lighting on Trump's face sort of caught a criminal red handed. This is not the normal technique used to show case a leader. The photographer seems hating Trump.
Normally, to photograph a leader, the camera placement should be placed lower than the subject's face, so it can make him look confident, powerful, and larger than life, a strong leader.

>>4399925
it doesn't work, no reason why he couldn't have just reused his first term photo. Can you imagine fox news doing one of their fawning phone interviews with this as the profile photo? it just looks sinister.

>>4400292
>>4400293
It’s Trumps own personal choice. No one is doing this to him as much as you want to perpetually think of him as a powerless victim. They shoot as many as it takes until the president picks and is satisfied with one. This is how Trump wants to be seen in his 2nd term. If you have a problem with him looking like a villain, you’ll forget all about the picture when you see what he and Miller have planned to attack America, its people, and its Allies over the next 4 years. lol

>>4399925
it's defiant, nasty, and determined, it says: the CIA tried to kill me and the DOJ tried to bankrupt and put me in prison but here I am

>>4400307
That's the point retard. There's no turning back.

>>4399983
The artist admitted it. Adding sperm to things is his calling card as seen in all his previous works. What's hilarious is that he put the sperm on obama's head lmao

>>4399925
Doesn't work for me

>>4399925
What makes it work? He looks like he's holding a torch under his face. He looks dastardly. He looks like he got thoughts up in he head. Everyone votes for a man with a plan.