Look at the photo in Post #7. It’s clearly a problem with the camera perspective. If Jimmy Carter is 6 feet tall he must be wearing size 23 clown shoes.
Camera perspective? They were plugged in. Cut and pasted. By an eighth grader.
Jimmy is 5’ 9” and Joe is under 6”.
> If Jimmy Carter is 6 feet tall he must be wearing size 23 clown shoes. <
What a weird photo. I didn’t even notice the shoes until you mentioned it. The shoes make it twice as weird.
If the folks in the photo were Republicans the late-night comics would be laughing about this for a month.
I could have taken a better picture with my $200 Umidigi phone.
Carter’s shoes tell me the shot of him was taken with a wide angle lens, like something in the 28mm to 20mm range. Everything else about him, the chairs and his wife fit a wide angle shot, her shoes are more normal because they are not as close as his are to the camera.
Everything else has to be a photoshop job, I know of no way to make two people seem so much larger just using a camera. No matter what lens you use, the 4 people should all be the same approximate size, unless one individual is much closer to the camera than the others. That’s the way camera lens perspetive works, I’ve used it lots of time to get more interesting shots. I have a decent shot taken looking down a guitar neck from the tuners that turned out to have good perspective, and the neck seems to slim down a lot more than it actually does as it gets closer to the guitar body. Same as you see here with his feet, the tuning head seems huge compared to the guitar neck.
But the other two people being so large is just not possible by just using a wide angle lens. Carter is sitting slouched back in a chair and jill just towers over him. Carter’s wife looks like a munchkin. No way to do that even using the specialty photo options in my camera.
I can make it look like it was taken with toy camera, black & white, pick one color and the rest black and white, and several other options, all in camera. Ithink it might have a digitl fish eye option, can’t remember. Then in post processing I can turn a color shot into black and white, make it look like an oil painting, increase or decrease lighting, contrast and specific color ranges, turn it into a negative, all sorts of stuff.
But I can’t make it do what I see here unless I take two separate pictures and then copy & paste one onto the other. Those 4 people posed in that specific picture would not be so seriously different sizes. Especially carter’s wife, she would not look like a midget compared to the bonehead beside her.
Carter’s shoes tell me his picture was taken at a wide angle setting, probably an 18-55mm lens at or near the 18-20mm range. I have 2 of them that would do that. OK, 3, but one is still put up in a box, never been used. I only need one...I took a shot of downtown at 18mm, the power poles on either side were visibly leaning inward at about a 10 degree angle. Made for a really odd looking picture. I can’t use it much at 18mm if anything like a door frame is in the picture. It almost gets a fisheye effect.
This has to be a photoshop job that somebody didn’t check closely before just throwing it on twatter. No other way too get that efect that I know of.
I use GIMP, which is an open source photoshop replacement, it will not do what I see here, except by copy & paste a second picture into the first. Most often, I use Irfan View, which only has simple, basic editing options, which is usually all I need. Crop and resize, maybe push the contrast a bit and I’m done. I try to get what I want right out of the camera without spending ages on post processing. If I go out and take 250 shots of birds, which I do fairly often, I might get 30 keepers, and if I had to edit each one to get a good shot, I’d be staring at the computer till 3AM. No thanks. I keep the camera set to give me what I want in a JPEG to begin with, and I don’t have to spend much time at all on editing.
But I can’t do this without two separate pictures and copy & paste.