Posted on 04/27/2021 12:35:34 PM PDT by cll
Because it is a photo. The official oil portrait is being worked on.
No, it's a photo and it's temporary. The National Portrait Gallery displays a portrait of the most recent former president in its gallery of Past Presidents. This photo will hang there until the formal oil portrait of Trump is completed.
No one said there is a flag in the picture, other than his lapel flag. We illustrated that he had always had the flag in the Oval, but the photo angle didn’t show the flag.
The photographer did NOT move the flag into the shot, which would have involved rearranging the flags that ARE in the shot, because they were always there in the way Trump laid out his office.
Are you really that fussy that he had to have the flag behind him in every photo so that — what — people will know he is proud to be American? No other recent President surpassed Trump as a patriot.
The credenza was not moved — you can see the corner of it in the photo.
You are accusing the photographer of some nefarious intent to EXCLUDE the flag for political reasons. This is ridiculously oversensitive and sounds like the lefty snowflakes. Especially since we don’ know who made the photo, but my guess is that it was the White House photographer. I have toured the White House press office corridor and have seen dozens of his wonderful photos, all supportive of President Trump.
Having directed numerous photo shoots myself over the years, I can tell you that the photographer probably shot from many angles and had the President pose this way and that—then showed Trump a selection of many of the shots from which Trump could make his choice. The photographer didn’t rearrange Trump’s office layout for the photo, but moved around this way and that as he made his shots.
Also, you cannot compare the spacing you perceive in the two photos you compared without knowing what lenses were used to make each shot. Lenses are curved to give a wide angle, but some give a wider angle than others, and some destroy the perception of depth, while others exaggerate it. Surely you have seen photos where the people in the background seem much larger than the person in the foreground. That is due to the lens, the speed of the film, the lighting conditions and the speed of the shutter in a given shot. All these variables affect the perception of depth and width in a photo.
BRAVO !
The American flag is not in the picture submitted as official
Pointing that made a LOT of FReepers respond like democrats projecting.
IS there a flag in that photo/image ?
no
And that's all there should be said about it
NO ONE has said a negative word about President Trump.
No American flag.
My intelligence was attacked when too many people said there WAS a flag, when there wasn't.
YOU wouldn't stand for that neither.
No American flag
Nice....
memorializing when the country had a leader.
.....”It looks like a man ready to take some action”....
That’s also how I see it.
That is such a pathetic photo...what an complete embarrassment to the citizens of this country....and the world
I did not say it was about Trump but this forum is full of nabobs and naysayers and scolds
It’s an excellent photograph/portrait not a damn thing wrong with it
This is not the official portrait that will hang forever in the white house.
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