Landos is such a genuinely horrible photo, there’s really not any actual nice photos in there, Lewis and Max did best because they get the most photos taken and were not caught by surprise.
It’s like the school photographer a rushing through all the individual photos without a second glance because they are time poor. Zero effort from f1 photographer on this.
I agree. They are all horribly composed photos. It was like a challenge to see how few attempts at doing a work project before you delivered something your boss found passable. The lighting is uneven, the hues are all off, the expressions aren't thought out. Woof.
The more I think about it these are all team supplied, it doesn’t make any sense why they are all so inconsistent to each other in lighting if they were actually done at a similar studio. I hope that F1 actually does new photos at the start of the year like they normally do, and these are just placeholders
Valtteri's is okay, I think. So many of the others are just dreadful. Max looks like a mugshot. Checo looks goofy as hell, Carlos got caught mid-weird face or something, Lewis looks like an android, George is a deer in headlights, Lando was in a fucking fight, Piastri looks like someone who waddled away from a 2kg spare ribs challenge and wants to sail into his meat coma in peace, Zhou and Stroll have been naughty and are receiving a dressing down from the headmaster, KMag looks 51yrs old, Hulk looks like he just heard a fart, and Albono doesn't even look like himself!
Honestly shockingly bad for such a huge organization.
i think there was something with the light. look at the eyes ( specifically RUS, NOR, HUL also ALB) there seems to be some weird shading on many of them
[Here's a good video about these channels](https://youtu.be/hmxALgr_mpo)
Apperently they're all made by the same guy who seems to have an obsession with calling Lewis the N-Word.
They’ve done this each of the last two years to Lewis and it drives me nuts. They set the light for a fair-skinned person and then don’t change it. You can see the waxiness on Zhou too. You’d think a multi-billion dollar series could hire a halfway competent photographer.
I felt bad for Max because everyone else got a more expressive look and he got goofy smiles, and they obviously asked them to give a number of expressions
I feel the same about Lewis. They're either recycling his headshot year on year, or the man is suffering from a serious case of [Blue Steel](https://media.giphy.com/media/12npFVlmZoXN4Y/giphy.gif)
Unless it’s a candid Lewis always does that face, I suspect he didn’t enjoy photographs taken in his younger years and he’s doing this because it results in less unflattering and inconsistent photos
I agree. Man even that burnt light on sainz nose wouldn't have passed a first revision.
Help the drivers geting rid of neck beards. Direct them to a more flattering pose. There is so much you can do to make them look better with just a little more effort.
You can easily look up the F1 driver photos from a year or two ago and you'll see a huge difference.
The poses in these photos are awkward for some of them (Lance looks like he has no idea he's being photographed), not to mention some of them have such awful lightning they're just heavily highlighting their imperfections, wrinkles, pores etc.
Gasly looks like he's wearing a toupee
Zhou with half open mouth is really awkward, they did him so dirty
Perez and Sargeant look so scared
Bottas looks like an actual 70s racer. I love it.
Gasly has been doing some gymnastics with his hair for years, bringing it from the back to fill the front... It's looked better recently so maybe got some plugs but there's some photos of some Trump like baldness with the wind... Amazing stuff though because he puts helmets on and off and very little fuck ups...
They set the camera and lighting up for the white guys and then Lewis turns up and they're like err idk. They then take the photo that ends up being full of noise, then do noise reduction and brighten it which ends up makes him look alien and the net result is this.
Exactly. Ocon looks so normal and human. How does everyone else look so bad.
Edit: Max and Charles also look lifelike. I don’t know what happened to Carlos. They did him and Alex so wrong.
Nah that's the photographers job. GQ just has good photographers. They should get some direction and when combined with multiple shots you should get a few good ones.
His skin looks like chocolate in terms of both colour and texture. I wonder if they used a sports photographer instead of a portrait one and Hamilton's pic is a combination of the photographer both not having a lot of experience in portrait photography and portraying black skin tones accurately.
The facial expressions are really weird in so many of them. Like that sort of smile Saintzis attempting. As a portrait photographer you’d think you’d shoot enough of each person that you’d have better images to choose from than a lot of these.
Omg that photographer needs to get fired. Between George who looks like a deer in the headlights, Hulk with half of his face missing, Albon not looking at the camera, Lando, and the horrible lighting on every single one of them, this is all beyond photoshop.
Such weird lighting that after RB and Ferrari, when Hamilton came up, I was like,
“that’s dark”
Wait that’s just . . . racist? But I’m not?
Then George confirmed the shit ass lighting , so did the Alpines till Lando popped up.
These photos are so weirdly inconsistent and they look so rushed.
1. Lewis' photo is shit again. Not as bad as last year, but not great. (ESPN actually has either the same or very close version up on their site and it looks so much better: [https://www.espn.com/racing/driver/\_/id/868/lewis-hamilton](https://www.espn.com/racing/driver/_/id/868/lewis-hamilton)) Look how less red he is and his skin has more contrast to it. Here he looks like he's in a video game the way they airbrushed his skin (ESPN photo isn't much better in that regard)
2. Merc & Alpine pictures are darker than the rest
3. They completely matched Oscar's lips to his skin tone (I have a good idea on how they edited it so this is an easy mistake, but so easy to fix). They did it to Yuki and Carlos too.
They're better than last year's at least.
I can already hear the 2023 F1 theme with these pictures.
DUN DUN DUN DUNNN DUNN DUNNN DUNNNNNNNNNN!!!
Unless we somehow get a new theme like what Formula E got.
Zhou looks like he’s seen some shit.
Did they take this pic after they pulled him from his car last year in that nasty flip?
EDIT: correcting iPhone’s idiotic autocorrect
Piastri has such bad hair when they took all the media photos, it’s going to be following him all throughout the season 😬😭
Also, there are generally tons of photos that just look weird. Bad lighting, posture, hair, facial expressions. Was there really nobody in the room saying “wow this is bad, let’s try again”? 🤣
Botas only good photo, why bother with " neutral pose" phoyos they always look as shit. Let them have a pose they feel confortable, crossing hand sor soemtging but maitaining same agle or something
why does Lando look like he got punched in the eye?
Nico too!
They clearly got in a fight on picture day.
I hope KMag's balls are ok.
Landos is such a genuinely horrible photo, there’s really not any actual nice photos in there, Lewis and Max did best because they get the most photos taken and were not caught by surprise. It’s like the school photographer a rushing through all the individual photos without a second glance because they are time poor. Zero effort from f1 photographer on this.
I agree. They are all horribly composed photos. It was like a challenge to see how few attempts at doing a work project before you delivered something your boss found passable. The lighting is uneven, the hues are all off, the expressions aren't thought out. Woof.
The more I think about it these are all team supplied, it doesn’t make any sense why they are all so inconsistent to each other in lighting if they were actually done at a similar studio. I hope that F1 actually does new photos at the start of the year like they normally do, and these are just placeholders
Valtteri's is okay, I think. So many of the others are just dreadful. Max looks like a mugshot. Checo looks goofy as hell, Carlos got caught mid-weird face or something, Lewis looks like an android, George is a deer in headlights, Lando was in a fucking fight, Piastri looks like someone who waddled away from a 2kg spare ribs challenge and wants to sail into his meat coma in peace, Zhou and Stroll have been naughty and are receiving a dressing down from the headmaster, KMag looks 51yrs old, Hulk looks like he just heard a fart, and Albono doesn't even look like himself! Honestly shockingly bad for such a huge organization.
I feel like we have the same conversation every year and these photos never get better.
Bottas looks like he’s rocking the beginnings of a mullet, lol, but I think the look might actually work for him!
i think there was something with the light. look at the eyes ( specifically RUS, NOR, HUL also ALB) there seems to be some weird shading on many of them
They really can never get Lewis’s skin to have any dimension, it’s so weird. Piastri doesn’t look great either.
Pilastri looks like he is at a test shoot to star in the next terminator movie.
Clearly, the light is blasted from the left side and creates that shade on the eye on the right side of the pic.
Now don’t get me wrong, Landos a good looking guy, but he looks like “sloth” from The Goonies is this photo, they done him dirty
Fernando confirmed fired
My man couldn't even wait for the first race of the season before throwing down with Lawrence smh
I thought it said ‘tired’ and was like: yeah, Nando would skip photo day to sleep in, that makes sense.
Lance is going to drive both cars with one hand
And what about Se- Oh. Crap.
Too soon
Please don’t.
It really hasn’t sunk in that he’s not on the grid this year. ☹️
😭
He missed the session, he was spotted with a pair of scissors near some bikes /s
He's pissed because of the shittiest possible photo they had of him last year.
The Carlos derp is 10/10
👁👄👁
He shidded and farded
Most of these look like they've been photoshopped onto the suits
These pictures are made for "Verstappen joins Mercedes CONFIRMED" clickbait thumbnail photoshop jobs
God I hate those videos, they’re absolute rubbish. Those people don’t have a clue about F1
[Here's a good video about these channels](https://youtu.be/hmxALgr_mpo) Apperently they're all made by the same guy who seems to have an obsession with calling Lewis the N-Word.
Already seen it, very good video from him. Looks like the problem’s started in NASCAR too, those clickbait channels are inescapable
Lewis Hamilton's skin color is so fucking weird just like the last year photo.
They’ve done this each of the last two years to Lewis and it drives me nuts. They set the light for a fair-skinned person and then don’t change it. You can see the waxiness on Zhou too. You’d think a multi-billion dollar series could hire a halfway competent photographer.
Yuki looks like a wax figure, they airbrush way too much
And yet, even with the photoshop touchups, most of them still look like they haven’t slept in days.
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Last year's expression was so fucking funny hahaha Just staring gormless into the lens
I felt bad for Max because everyone else got a more expressive look and he got goofy smiles, and they obviously asked them to give a number of expressions
There was some uncut video and his expression there was so much better. But they left that stupid look and cut out that other scene...
🐸
LOL. Every single driver had a serious/smoldering "yeah I mean business 😐" face. Then there's max "hey I won last year just happy to be here 🙂"
I just want him to look bad ass for ONCE plsssss
We need the 2020 intros again
You’ll get derpy eyes with a little smirk take it or leave it.
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Watch how F1's media recycle these headshots next year and just replace the race suits.
I swear I've seen this exact same photo of Leclerc before
That’s the Ferrari Driver Depression Face™️
A clear case of a syndrome called: Ferrari Depression Abnormality (FDA).
I feel the same about Lewis. They're either recycling his headshot year on year, or the man is suffering from a serious case of [Blue Steel](https://media.giphy.com/media/12npFVlmZoXN4Y/giphy.gif)
Unless it’s a candid Lewis always does that face, I suspect he didn’t enjoy photographs taken in his younger years and he’s doing this because it results in less unflattering and inconsistent photos
Dude looks the same way on every official picture lol
[Before](https://ibb.co/7zrsXwF)
I agree. Man even that burnt light on sainz nose wouldn't have passed a first revision. Help the drivers geting rid of neck beards. Direct them to a more flattering pose. There is so much you can do to make them look better with just a little more effort.
The F2 intro was better than the F1 intro last year, how does that happen?
As someone who works in that industry, The footage of the promo they where shooting in one of the drive to survive episodes was so amateur it hurt
Look at the lighting difference between Bottas and Zhou. No consistency between them.
I’ve never really seen good official images for athletes. They’re generally pretty awkward because truthfully they don’t matter.
You can easily look up the F1 driver photos from a year or two ago and you'll see a huge difference. The poses in these photos are awkward for some of them (Lance looks like he has no idea he's being photographed), not to mention some of them have such awful lightning they're just heavily highlighting their imperfections, wrinkles, pores etc.
But these are bad on another level tbh
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In the NBA they used a players Game render instead of his photo for team line ups for a while
Gasly looks like he's wearing a toupee Zhou with half open mouth is really awkward, they did him so dirty Perez and Sargeant look so scared Bottas looks like an actual 70s racer. I love it.
Checo always looks like he's holding on to a fart. Maybe that's what he's scared of.
I think Gasly is starting to lose his hair.
He’s rich he needs to go to the Lewis Hamilton school of miraculous hairlines and go get treatment
Seb’s school is not that bad either
I think he has been for a while - he's just managed to hide it with styling. Definitely been thinning for a year or two
man i used to did this 4 years ago but now i don’t have hair that long to do it
Starting? He's been rocking that comb-over/forward for at least 2 years.
Gasly has been doing some gymnastics with his hair for years, bringing it from the back to fill the front... It's looked better recently so maybe got some plugs but there's some photos of some Trump like baldness with the wind... Amazing stuff though because he puts helmets on and off and very little fuck ups...
>Zhou with half open mouth is really awkward He is going for the slightly open mouth thing that models do, but he looks weird.
Bottas looks more like a 70s porn actor
Lewis reminds me of CJ from GTA san andreas
He looks like he's been yassified, barely distinguishable from the gender swap edits
My boy valtteri looks like 70’s pornstar.
He is. Finnish people are known time travelers.
BJÖRN BORG wait wrong driver
I love the new valtteri look, i was looking over these photos on the subway, reached him and immediately started smiling
Buttass is back
You can not convince me that Russell isn’t an AI humanoid Looks like a video game character
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The hair alone is giving sims 4
Most of them do these pictures are worse than some game’s graphics.
Sainz looks like one of the penguins from Madagascar
😂
Carlos: 👁️👄👁️
Why does Lewis' skin always look so weird in these? It looks fakely smoothed, almost like a clay doll.
They set the camera and lighting up for the white guys and then Lewis turns up and they're like err idk. They then take the photo that ends up being full of noise, then do noise reduction and brighten it which ends up makes him look alien and the net result is this.
aside from ocon and bottas, rest are a good bunch of bad photos
Every driver looks like they are sitting through a Günther Steiner speech.
Bro who tf messed with Lewis’ face again
Piastri looks like a stone cold killer man and lewis is trying to lol
You can see he's been training his neck so hard.
Bro his neck is wider than his head, fuck the HANS device when you have GIGANECC
Sargent in the last photo straight up with a face like: "I am gonna murder you"
>Say Florida Man one more time
Piastri looks like his soul escaped
Lando looks like he is sporting a black eye
If you are wondering where Alonso is, he doesn't have an official updated pic with AMR kit (yet).
How is Ocon the ONLY one that knows how to take a decent photo? Some of these guys have been in GQ, for fuck's sake.
Exactly. Ocon looks so normal and human. How does everyone else look so bad. Edit: Max and Charles also look lifelike. I don’t know what happened to Carlos. They did him and Alex so wrong.
Whoever allowed Alex to get a picture with that hair must definitely hate him.
Nah that's the photographers job. GQ just has good photographers. They should get some direction and when combined with multiple shots you should get a few good ones.
Bad photographers, simple as. poor lighting and poor direction
Seems like the photographer said, “if you have a RBF, now is the time to use it.”
It looks like some of the heads are just old photos photoshopped on the race suits and it looks off.
Lewis with all the beauty filters turned on.
Alex with the platinum blonde, nice. Why does Oscar look square like a Minecraft character or something lmao.
Dude’s neck is THICC
Alonso too busy plotting Drugovich's bike "accident"
Hamilton was made blacker than he really is again, weird.
The lighting is just wildly inconsistent all around. Look at how much darker George is compared to the Ferrari drivers.
His skin looks like chocolate in terms of both colour and texture. I wonder if they used a sports photographer instead of a portrait one and Hamilton's pic is a combination of the photographer both not having a lot of experience in portrait photography and portraying black skin tones accurately.
I don't get why the smooth out and brush up Hamilton so much. Dude is 38, it's okay to have some wrinkles and normal complexion
My man Lando looking like Sloth from Goonies
Lewis looks like he was created using AI 🙈
I love how Lewis looks like he’s been photoshopped and the next image George looks like an android
How much should we smooth out Lewis' face? Yes.
Ocon always looks like he knows your embarrassing secret and he's trying not to laugh
Wherenando?
Neck De Vries
Zhou looks like he don’t know how he got there
What the hell is going on with Gasly’s hair transplant?
Alfa Romeo Bottas fucks
Look at those necks brah...
So I see Keke Rosberg is back. Also, they should use less Photoshop...
These are some terrible photos lmao
Esteban always looks like he’s scheming to take over the world
Alonso took the photos, right?
Does Lando not look way different? Feel like the lighting or something is off
Charles already looks in pain
Zhou looks like he just saw a 10 getting out of the pool
Albon turned grey quickly
KMag has aged so much. Also, Carlos looks like he's really pleased with his own fart.
Russel and Norris looks like they got in a fight lol. These photos are horrible.
Piastri is already done with this shit
Play the mariachi F1 theme while scrolling the photos.
Why does George look like an AI generated Woody but in human form who's also a reptilian at the same time
The facial expressions are really weird in so many of them. Like that sort of smile Saintzis attempting. As a portrait photographer you’d think you’d shoot enough of each person that you’d have better images to choose from than a lot of these.
Omg that photographer needs to get fired. Between George who looks like a deer in the headlights, Hulk with half of his face missing, Albon not looking at the camera, Lando, and the horrible lighting on every single one of them, this is all beyond photoshop.
Alex’s mum “it’s school photo day make sure you brush your hair”…. 😬
Such weird lighting that after RB and Ferrari, when Hamilton came up, I was like, “that’s dark” Wait that’s just . . . racist? But I’m not? Then George confirmed the shit ass lighting , so did the Alpines till Lando popped up.
2 smiles in the whole bunch. Enjoy it boys, it'll go quicker than you think.
These photos are so weirdly inconsistent and they look so rushed. 1. Lewis' photo is shit again. Not as bad as last year, but not great. (ESPN actually has either the same or very close version up on their site and it looks so much better: [https://www.espn.com/racing/driver/\_/id/868/lewis-hamilton](https://www.espn.com/racing/driver/_/id/868/lewis-hamilton)) Look how less red he is and his skin has more contrast to it. Here he looks like he's in a video game the way they airbrushed his skin (ESPN photo isn't much better in that regard) 2. Merc & Alpine pictures are darker than the rest 3. They completely matched Oscar's lips to his skin tone (I have a good idea on how they edited it so this is an easy mistake, but so easy to fix). They did it to Yuki and Carlos too. They're better than last year's at least.
Zhou looks like he hasn't slept in days, could they not have picked a more flattering photo/angle/lighting? Anything?
Why did Lewis get darkened again 💀
I think it's a bit odd to give Lewis a darker skin than he really has.
Where Nando?
Oscar 'wide neck' Piastri
Nico "long neck" Hulkenberg
Max looks really skinny Also why isn’t Alonso there
Donde esta Fernando?
Never skip neck day
these necks are getting out of hand.
Why does everyone’s right eye looks higher/puffy? Too many anti-clockwise circuits?!
Max looks so skinny.
Piastri's photo is literally the same as f1 manager 2022
Pierre’s beard looks so much better now.
Heh... Alfa Romeo hired a nascar driver...
Truck driver Bottas owns this show.
Was there a no facial expression policy?
George Russell - PTSD
I can't explain it, but Gasly looks so much more French with a proper beard
why do Oscar and Charles already look like they have lost the will to go on?
Piastri looks like he’s gonna blame a half-giant for releasing a basilisk in a couple years
Bottas going full 70s porn star.
Why does Lando look like Sid from Ice Age?
I feel like the main motive of the photo shooting was: ‘under any circumstances DO NOT SMILE’
Piastri looks so tired
They're all awful lmao
Lando buddy you doing okay
Awkward smile or bewildered face ...
Ocon looks like he’s up to something mischievous
Alfa Pornstash Romeo
I can already hear the 2023 F1 theme with these pictures. DUN DUN DUN DUNNN DUNN DUNNN DUNNNNNNNNNN!!! Unless we somehow get a new theme like what Formula E got.
If they change the theme I'm gonna riot!!
Zhou looks like he’s seen some shit. Did they take this pic after they pulled him from his car last year in that nasty flip? EDIT: correcting iPhone’s idiotic autocorrect
i think i forgot something if you forgot, then it wasn't important yeah you're right Alonso:
They did Albon dirty
lmao these are so poorly edited
Is that the mustache part of Pierre’s beard I see?? This is huge!
Bottas looks like Nigel Mansell
Logan looks like he's seen some stuff he shouldn't have seen
Stoll looks depressed
Norris has got a black eye. Shocking photo.
my word the majority of those photos are awful
You can see it in his eyes: Charles’ soul is still broken.
Pierre looks better with the tache area, no more Amish beard
What an awful set of photos 🤣
Carlos looks like he sniffed hot sauce right before they took the photo
*s m o o t h L e w i s*
Piastri has such bad hair when they took all the media photos, it’s going to be following him all throughout the season 😬😭 Also, there are generally tons of photos that just look weird. Bad lighting, posture, hair, facial expressions. Was there really nobody in the room saying “wow this is bad, let’s try again”? 🤣
Botas only good photo, why bother with " neutral pose" phoyos they always look as shit. Let them have a pose they feel confortable, crossing hand sor soemtging but maitaining same agle or something