He told the photographer "make me look good." So the photographer said "stand in those heavy shadows."
LOL, brutal!
"Stay where you are, I just need to move further away ... in fact, give me 3 hours to drive to Hungary then move about a lot - the blurring can only help."
This man is one daft and stubborn individual, always believing he has the higher intellect and better plan.
He's one of the few dishonest people I've come across who are also dumb enough to appear to believe their own invented claims. You can almost see it happen when he talks - he plucks something out of the air ("regularly? I'm going to have to say libellous!"), repeats it a couple of times, then acts as though it's something he's heard or discovered and talks about it like it's a widely recognized and well-accepted fact, seemingly incredulous that others aren't in on the delusion.