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President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
K-Rock going super saiyan

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Sneeze Party
Apr 26, 2002

These are, by far, the most brilliant photographs that I have ever seen, and you are a GOD AMONG MEN.
Toilet Rascal
How's this? This guy has a *huge* following in his town. Absolutely huge. People love him.

innout
by Sneeze Party, on Flickr

joat mon
Oct 15, 2009

I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

Sneeze Party posted:

How's this? This guy has a *huge* following in his town. Absolutely huge. People love him.

innout
by Sneeze Party, on Flickr

It's cute, offbeat and happy. It makes me smile when I look at it.
I think he's absolutely nailing the big picture, but the technical details of good composition could use some help. It's like he's blind to anything to do with the background of a picture.

jarlywarly
Aug 31, 2018

joat mon posted:

It's cute, offbeat and happy. It makes me smile when I look at it.
I think he's absolutely nailing the big picture, but the technical details of good composition could use some help. It's like he's blind to anything to do with the background of a picture.

Yeah the background is where I think most people fail when they compose, with a decent background this shot is cute, with this background it looks like someone doing a poo poo in the flower borders outside an old people's home.

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


jarlywarly posted:

Yeah the background is where I think most people fail when they compose, with a decent background this shot is cute, with this background it looks like someone doing a poo poo in the flower borders outside an old people's home.

how do you know that's not what the artist is going for?

jarlywarly
Aug 31, 2018

tater_salad posted:

how do you know that's not what the artist is going for?

No photoshopped in steam effects.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

The downcast disapproving look on the statue cracks me up. There's definitely something good that could come out of this idea but the photographer failed to get anywhere close to it.

KinkyJohn
Sep 19, 2002

What happened to the ultra talented trump photographer? I'm assuming the quality of whitehouse photos have gone up in recent months

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

KinkyJohn posted:

What happened to the ultra talented trump photographer? I'm assuming the quality of whitehouse photos have gone up in recent months

william moon

he is apparently still allowed to wander the grounds

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1384640917248819200

most of his photos are not good, but some of them arent bad

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1384227724022087688

geese, being terrifying monsters, are definitely suited by dutch angles

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1383394457697939457

still doing strange edits

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1380646366414782473

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1373682211099185154

probably available for hire as a wedding photographer

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1379885141716271108

not sure what's going on here

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1379132330896470016

really gives off a stalker vibe

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1359820478936993794

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1359558259233931273

😬

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1359908161122164739

sometimes he just takes photos of people pissing, i guess

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1362074787087060992

and lastly, a possible explanation for why he always seems to be stuck outside of the briefing room. another explanation is that he's a creepy weirdo

https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1253736536513937409

in short, william moon is a land of contrasts

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
What in the ever loving gently caress.

Grimson
Dec 16, 2004



baw posted:

in short, william moon is a land of contrasts

oh my god i cant stop screaming and laughing alternatively

hope and vaseline
Feb 13, 2001

lmao how did this guy get hired in the first place, can you imagine showing up for that position with that kind of portfolio

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

hope and vaseline posted:

lmao how did this guy get hired in the first place, can you imagine showing up for that position with that kind of portfolio

this is the strange part

no one seems to know how he got his white house pass, or who pays him, or why he is there. he gets cagey when asked for details





xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

In 20 years it's going to be discovered he was a russian spy.

Grimson
Dec 16, 2004



his instagram is beautiful
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNTTUYuATXe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
on a related note i feel nauseous just looking at that photo for a total of 2 seconds

Helen Highwater
Feb 19, 2014

And furthermore
Grimey Drawer
What is an 'SP photo'?

Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

I think we just found out who 365 Nog Hogger is irl

my turn in the barrel
Dec 31, 2007

Something is really weird with that guy.

He only has 1149 followers on IG.

Only 5 Patrons donating a total of $35 a month on Patreon.

Even his Twitter only has 20k followers.

Obviously his pictures are awful and his captions are word soup but you would think he would have more followers with the level of exposure he has.

And how do you justify press credentials to get that level of exposure with so few followers?

Rather than Russian spy/plant my conspiracy theory is spy/plant for the Unification Church (aka Moonies).



This is all I can compare it to.

my turn in the barrel fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Apr 24, 2021

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

There's going to be a dozen "white house photographers" though, isn't there? It seems like it'd be easy for the lovely ones to get completely ignored. I would think Souza is the exception in terms of growing a following.

baw
Nov 5, 2008

RESIDENT: LAISSEZ FAIR-SNEZHNEVSKY INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

xzzy posted:

There's going to be a dozen "white house photographers" though, isn't there? It seems like it'd be easy for the lovely ones to get completely ignored. I would think Souza is the exception in terms of growing a following.

yeah for the presidential photographer there is just one (who often has a few other photographers working underneath them.) the vp also has a photographer, and i imagine most cabinet members do too. maybe even some legislators. those are the "official" photographers

then there are the photographers who work for news agencies or other governments, or freelancers who regularly sell their photos to those organizations (the article notes that several hundred photographers have wh access.) they go to the white house when their work calls for it, like if there is a relevant briefing. from what i can tell, william is the only one who wanders aimlessly around the white house grounds taking random creepshots of people and things without actually being employed by anyone

Megabound posted:

I think we just found out who 365 Nog Hogger is irl



as a 365 Nog Hogger fan, this is now canon

baw fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Apr 24, 2021

Doggles
Apr 22, 2007

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/us/yearbook-photos-st-johns-girls-altering.html

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
Lol, someone had a print deadline to make.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Apparently the teacher running the yearbook class independently decided to do this, and she had the students do the Photoshop work.

Electrophotonic
Mar 14, 2010

They're gonna stop
Saturday night
So you better have fun now
I PREDICT


My decision to switch to Microsoft Edge paid off when the New Tab screen brought me this masterpiece



According to the guy's photo agency page, These images are fascinating and extremely authentic.

These are the ones that stirred my heart the most







Finally, a few examples of Giant Moon Syndrome


xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I'm gonna make a photoshop plugin (powered by AI of course) that analyzes a photo and automatically puts bokeh blurred leaves along the bottom edge of the image. I'll make millions.

Sky replacement is so passe, foreground replacement is the actual future.

Electrophotonic
Mar 14, 2010

They're gonna stop
Saturday night
So you better have fun now
I PREDICT


Make it clone animals and swap eyes around and you'll make billions my friend

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


I hate hyperprocessed photos..

SMERSH Mouth
Jun 25, 2005

It’s digital taxidermy.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Less offensive than real taxidermy I guess.

But lol at trying to call the images "authentic." No one cares if you clone stamp poo poo in photoshop bud, just don't lie about it.

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


Reminds of the winner of this recent NPR photo contest where they took a picture of a worker in India and then had a company stick him into some unrelated desert. The photographer and judge claim it’s impactful and emotional but it feels like something from Flickr circa 2010 to me

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.


Dr. VooDoo posted:

Reminds of the winner of this recent NPR photo contest where they took a picture of a worker in India and then had a company stick him into some unrelated desert. The photographer and judge claim it’s impactful and emotional but it feels like something from Flickr circa 2010 to me

That genuinely makes me angry - even that drone shot in the same article is better (I'm not a huge fan of drone shots)

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


Slotducks posted:

That genuinely makes me angry - even that drone shot in the same article is better (I'm not a huge fan of drone shots)

Yeah. Like they had photos they show actual emotions and then you have the winner where it’s like “I photoshopped him into a desert to make him seem lonely” and the judge had no idea what the photo was trying to convey until they read the caption provided by the photographer by the judge’s own omission

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

Dr. VooDoo posted:

Reminds of the winner of this recent NPR photo contest where they took a picture of a worker in India and then had a company stick him into some unrelated desert. The photographer and judge claim it’s impactful and emotional but it feels like something from Flickr circa 2010 to me

Jesus h. Christ.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Poverty porn is a great go to for photo contests.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Was scanning around for places to do night landscapes in Colorado, ran across this entrepreneur.



"can you please stand next to this outhouse for 30 seconds so I can make you blurry and blow the highlights? thaaaanks"



"aww gently caress my exposure was too short, whelp we're gonna crank the sliders anyways and savor all that sensor noise."

And yes, they sell workshops. https://shoutoutcolorado.com/meet-maggie-martin-astrophotographer-extraordinaire/

GrandpaPants
Feb 13, 2006


Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!

https://mobile.twitter.com/kanae_patricia/status/1417658840020135944?s=21

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


THE gently caress?
I literally cant even.

Guido Merkens
Jun 18, 2003

The price of greatness is responsibility.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

bobmarleysghost
Mar 7, 2006



:chloe:

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Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

At some point someone asked him to put shackles on. The person asking this and the dude decided this was fine. "Now get on your knees in front of the white lady".

Jesus.

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