Didn’t bring up portrait mode on iOS. That’s for fake blurring for software BOKEH and it’s shit. I didn’t say an iPhone took THIS photo, I was drawing parallels people could relate to. The shelf behind his leg (I don’t know if you are generally referring to the left or right edge) has two ogee-routed edges and the hard light from the left of the frame rendered that edge with more definition...more separation, from the carpet. The right side is a similar luminance to to carpet, so the are less differentiated. Think contrast. The room isn’t professionally lit. There’s no key light, no fill, no bounce. There IS full surround lighting coming in from all around behind the shooter’s back, both left and right, and the appearance of fill/main light is made by them shadowing each other’s side from an even light source. There’s either banks of windows or doorways, as made apparent by the shadow on Trump’s jacket by his hand. If it were studio light, even fairly diffuse, it would be crisper from that shadow alone, unless they were in a white room, which he isn’t. The “straight line in nature’ comment is quaint, but I bet you could find a lot of things on nature that can manage to be perfectly straight for 5” or so, let alone a man-made leather shoe that didn’t grow out of a fucking stream. Chill out.

Didn’t bring up portrait mode on iOS. That’s for fake blurring for software BOKEH and it’s shit.

I didn’t say an iPhone took THIS photo, I was drawing parallels people could relate to.

The shelf behind his leg (I don’t know if you are generally referring to the left or right edge) has two ogee-routed edges and the hard light from the left of the frame rendered that edge with more definition...more separation, from the carpet. The right side is a similar luminance to to carpet, so the are less differentiated. Think contrast.

The room isn’t professionally lit. There’s no key light, no fill, no bounce. There IS full surround lighting coming in from all around behind the shooter’s back, both left and right, and the appearance of fill/main light is made by them shadowing each other’s side from an even light source. They’re either banks of windows or doorways, as made apparent by the shadow on Trump’s jacket by his hand. If it were studio light, even fairly diffuse, it would be crisper from that shadow alone, unless they were in a white room, which he isn’t.

The “straight line in nature’ comment is quaint, but I bet you could find a lot of things on nature that can manage to be perfectly straight for 5” or so, let alone a man-made leather shoe that didn’t grow out of a fucking stream.

Chill out.