Photo source: Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan on Twitter/X.

This photo is so incredibly bad in a multitude of ways that it's hilarious.

For context: this photo of the Nationals' Leader was taken at the front of Parliament House in Canberra, during a press conference. Standing behind him are his Nationals colleagues. Collectively, they're complaining about Labor's "biggest tax changes in a generation". It's a shame that Canavan's comms staffer saw this a fit photo for publication for a leader of a major party.

Never mind the flag pole that's seemingly sticking out of the top of Canavan's head thanks to the shockingly awful perspective that the photo was taken; at least two of his colleagues standing in the back are obscured by those standing in the front. It's almost as if the folks at the back are jumping up, saying, "peek-a-boo, ooh ooh, I'm here too!". If the photo was taken at eye level, not looking up at the subject in some lame attempt at projecting him as some sort of authority figure, this wouldn't be an issue. Neither would the flag pole sticking out of his head be an issue either.

I also don't think that this is even the whole Nationals parliamentary team. Not that this is a problem in its own - Canavan is the main spokesperson here and is clearly the focus of the photo - but my eye can't help but be drawn to the bloke on the far right of the image that has half his head sticking out of the frame. Either crop him out or choose a photo that has him in it.

And therein lies another problem with this incredibly bad photo: Canavan is the focus of this image, yet there's a whole lot of background clutter. A problem easily solved with decent lens with a fast aperture; which would allow for separation of Canavan from his colleagues in the background through a defocused background.

Oh yeah, and the photo is crooked. It's almost as if Canavan and his colleagues are standing on the Titanic just as it's about to make its final descent into the bottom of the ocean. A fitting metaphor given the trajectory that the Nationals are heading in; though a metaphor I'm sure the staffer taking this photo wasn't intending. In all seriousness, use Lightroom's straighten image feature - I'm sure your parliamentary office budget can afford an Adobe Photoshop subscription.

The single saving grace is that the photo is properly exposed, even if the colours are bland. That's literally the end of what's 'good' about this photo.