President Obama's official portrait: the first ever taken with a digital camera
By Laura June 
posted January 14th 2009 3:54PM
posted January 14th 2009 3:54PM
You're now gazing at President Barack Obama's just-released official portrait -- the first of a U.S. president ever taken with a digital camera. That means we can peek at the EXIF data -- this fine specimen of portraiture was snapped with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II on January 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm with no flash, using a 105mm lens stopped to f/10 at a 1/125 exposure, with an ISO of 100 by newly crowned official White House photographer Pete Souza. Nice work, Souza -- but we think it could use a few lens flares.
[Thanks, Penny]
[Thanks, Penny]
This is a good picture. I think this will do. I hope he has four good years, because if not, we are going to have four bad years.
American flag in the background, so cliche.
correction: using a 105mm lens
I don't think it was a 105mm lens. I think you mean using focal length of 105mm
Starting at the top of the photo, I would have tucked in the fringe of the Executive Flag. I also like the idea of doing things a bit different and would have posed the President in the center of the two criss-crossed Flags. His eyes, OK, no problem, but I would have insisted that he smile; he's got a winning smile and I believe that would have been one of the best, recent photos of a U.S. President.