what the hell happened to lighting? 40 years ago you'd have a nice controlled hairlight even on a presidential portrait
>>4482153That’s a great photo, really. I like the softness of the background and, somehow, the slightly off-centre position of his face makes the image more interesting to look at. Also, dat black point is *chef’s kiss.*>What the hell happened to lighting?I don’t know so tolerate my spitballing a moment. Lack of education? LEDs? High sensitivity digital photography? A fetish for “natural” lighting, i.e. available light? Hubris and arrogance? Penny-pinching or laziness?
It only looks nice with film.Actually, this applies to photos in general. Digital looks wrong. I'm not saying there's any fundamental reason why, but (with the exception of grain and sharpness) photos look worse year by year since digital happened.
>>4482153Shit photographers I guess. There was thread a while back that posted the worst government portraits and one of some woman had the ISO set to about 25,600. The noise was insane and somehow it still became her official portrait kek.
>>4482420Sometimes I see photos on Flickr where the settings are like “1/750s, f/9.5, ISO1000” and the picture is being taken in broad daylight and I just wonder what the hell they were thinking. Hoping for the best, perhaps?
>>4482153>what the hell happened to lighting?Boomer pieces of fucking shit. They didn't transfer knowledge like the greedy fucks they are. A boomer only knows how to criticize younger generations but he will never correct them or how to do the right thing. Boomer have globally fucked over younger generations. Now young photographers know fuck all about lighting and prefer natural light or gimmicky hyper colored meme led lights. Fuck boomers.
>>4482422Probably total noobs or just idiots that think a high number aperture means better focus or that a high shutter speed is needed to avoid shaking.
>>4482426Get some strobes and flash modifiers and learn. It isn't that difficult. OP's pic was most likely taken using 3 strobes. One for background, one gridded strobe for hair and shoulders, and a large umbrella to illuminate the face.
>>4482422Could be a scared photojournalist, desperate to not miss an important shot?Shooting in auto-ISO with a retardedly high shutter speed to be sure any and all motion is frozen, and at a ridiculously small aperture to make the focus plane kilometers wide, in case the autofocus misses?Or they're just retarded
>>4482154Yeah, the background does great magic sometimes, it's hard to get natural contrast without digitally altering.
>>4482472HCB's style was necessitated by his lack of a motor drive or high-frame rolls
>>4482153I think what's really happening here is this guy, Michael Evans, is a great photographer of Ronald Reagan. The drawing style of this lens is really nice but it was also masterfully used by the man behind the camera. I like how his whole face but *just* his face is in focus, and there's no blur even on the tip of his nose. Well, maybe some.
>12/2/05 ATLANTA (AP) _ Michael Evans, the White House photojournalist most famous for capturing an iconic image of a laughing Ronald Reagan wearing a worn cowboy hat, died Thursday at his home in Atlanta. He was 61. He died after a four year battle with cancer.>After Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980, Evans became the new president's personal photographer, a job independent of the White House's press office. For the next four years, he made a pictorial record of Reagan's administration, standing behind the president when he was shot in 1981."I just lowered my camera as the shots rang out," Evans wrote in July 2004 for the Digital Journalist. "Instinctively, I fired a frame as I raised my camera, then took one more before I dropped to the ground myself.">Born to Canadian diplomats stationed in Havana and South Africa, Evans showed an early interest in politics. His photojournalism career began in 1959 when he was a teenager at the Port Hope Evening Guide in Ontario, where he was paid $2 a photo to cover high school football games. He later worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The New York Times and Time Magazine. In 1975, while covering Reagan's unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he took the famous picture of the future president, which ran on the covers of Time, Newsweek and People magazines after the president's death last year. In 1982, he set up a nonprofit corporation to photograph 595 of Washington's most powerful people. He later developed computer programs to find photos in large collections and briefly worked in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's photo department.A memorial service for Evans will be held Tuesday at 3:45 at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Atlanta.
>>4482527>In 1982, he set up a nonprofit corporation to photograph 595 of Washington's most powerful people.Here's some photos from "The Portrait Project" by Michael Evans in no particular order.
I like this guy. He looks like a real go-getter.
https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0219/apix.html>"I don't like smiles particularly, although if they smile, that's OK,'' he says from behind his desk. "I just don't generally encourage it.'' What he's after, he says, is "a pleasant picture. I like people with a pleasant expression, a little twinkle in the eye, a little spark.''https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-31-ca-18755-story.html>“I wanted to fill in the blanks about the first four years of the Reagan Administration,” Evans said when asked why he didn’t use his off hours to photograph sports, nature or anything other than the ubiquitous men in suits that dominate his working days and his book’s pages. “After being at the White House for a while, I became aware of a whole stream of people whose hands were on the levers of power. The operation seemed like a giant Rube Goldberg machine on the banks of the Potomac.”https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-opening-the-michael-evans-portrait-exhibit-the-corcoran-gallery-art>For the past 4 years Michael Evans has been our official White House photographer, snapping the parade of events at the Executive Mansion and traveling with us around the world. Mike has captured everything from Cabinet meetings to Easter egg rolls, and his thousands of pictures provide a full and fascinating record of the hard work, exhilaration, and pageantry of American government.>And yet, in the course of his duties, Mike saw the need for another kind of record-one that would focus entirely on individuals. In these pictures there would be no seals of office, no shots of executives behind their desks or journalists at their typewriters. There would be no flags, no gardens, no tall, white pillars. Each subject would simply stand before a backdrop of plain gray. Michael would snap, and in the picture that resulted, nothing would matter but the individual—the way he or she stood, the way they held their hands, the look on his or her face.
He even photographed Martin Luther.
An interesting man, rest in peace.
For the curious: https://michaelawevansphotos.blogspot.com/
>>4482426Lazy fuckin Zoomers can't read so all they know about the world is whats been spoonfed to them 6 seconds at a time in fucking tiktok videos that they themselves curate. Boomers put all the shit they inherited and discovered into detailed fucking books, magazines, college courses, private instructions, youtube videos, and GenX was able to fucking follow it, Millenials that can read have been able to follow it but GenZ, fuck no, if they weren't told it by their equally ignorant peers on discord while whacking off playing vidya, they have 0 fucking knowledge of it existing. If you mention a things existence they'll assume you just made up to win an argument (since they're too lazy to learn how to communicate & socialize functionally, shit-flinging is all they know) until they google it (o the infallible google search), then skim the first result and think they're a fucking expert on it and argue about it & cry bc they're hostile little bitches until you call them on their bullshit and then it's all muh trauma muh trauma, please change your words to unalived and grape or i might dieeee.Grow the fuck up you cunts, you're the most coddled generation that ever existed.
>>4482153this was shot by a great photog interested in making great photos of people, that will always stand out
>>4482637Now was that the white hose photographer that was so good & easygoing he shot like every president since taft through obama? cause one of these staff photogs has been busy photographing half the countrys history or some such bullshit. or maybe it was just 3 presidents, i cant be fucked to remember this shit jfc
