Just ponder for a moment this image of Ed Miliband on the front page of the Guardian:
Feeling seasick yet ? Worried you might be about to slide out of your chair ?
What might the Guardian be trying to tell us ? Think this wasn't a considered editorial decision ? This ain't the Telegraph. They don't just pick photos at random. Maybe there weren't any other pictures to choose from ? This particular photographer only got the one photo from this particular event ? Sound likely to you ?
Thankfully, Getty Images is publicly searchable, and...
So, yeah. But, it's not just the tilt. That extreme cropping has a lot to do with it as well, especially the way the Labour logo gets cut off at the bottom. Of course, the Getty version of the photo was already a tight crop, and the ratios of the Guardian image and Getty's are different, not that that problem couldn't have been avoided by simply choosing one of the other photos on offer.
In fact, let's do...just...that.
And...
Well, minus the watermark, obviously...
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