• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    The Trump-Vance transition said in a press release that the portraits “go hard”.

    JFC I hate this timeline.

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      6 hours ago

      Vance looks like a dip shit. Trump’s photo is quite hard though, not going to lie. It looks like the photo of the corrupt evil dictator of a dystopian revolution movie.

      Oh wait…

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      6 hours ago

      In the grand scheme of things, they deserve what they got. But as a trained photographer, whoever did the lighting for these portraits did a terrible job. The fill and hair lights are okay (although the color temperature is all over the place, and doesn’t look like it’s an intentionally artistic choice), but the key light is way too bright. Looks like they somewhat masked it for Trump’s but may have just used the barndoors on the light so there’s a very dark shadow on his chest. With Vance they opened them up a bit, but he’s still got a weird shadow line from his right shoulder to his left elbow. They’d probably have gotten better pictures if they went to a JCPenney.

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      7 hours ago

      That background is a mess. Why so many lines intersecting his right side? Is there any symbolism to that painting?

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        6 hours ago

        They’re both pretty terrible from a purely technical and compositional perspective.