The Official White House Flickr Photostream

In case you don’t know, the White House has started publishing their images (Pete Souza and his posse’s photos, no less!) on Flickr. Interesting to note that full resolution is available and, just a few days ago, publish the EXIF of the images! This is excellent so one can learn from the experts. You can freely pixel-peep on the photos and amaze yourself with the fact the 5D Mk II is trounced by D700 at similar ISOs and see the glorious details.

For me, the much more useful information is the EXIF, to see what lenses and what exposure was used in the image that caught my eye (Yes, they’re all Pete Souza images…but not all of them are great…some are even crap, in my opinion)…so I can play Photo Editor and imagine myself yelling at Souza “What the hell is this garbage? I don’t pay you top dollar to get this crap.”

Well, one can always imagine.

A few observations: Pete uses mostly primes (50L, 24L, 135L), uses available light for most, if not all, of the shots…including indoors.

BTW, if you haven’t done so…buy Pete Souza’s “The Rise of Barack Obama.” One of the best photography book I’ve read in a long time.

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