My take on the “floating hand” is that the camera just happened to catch grampa as he was putting his hand on Barry’s shoulder, but wasn’t quite there yet. The hand was in motion when the shutter opened, and the “fatness” is just a bit of blur (of course, if you look at his other hand, he DOES have fat fingers to begin with).
If someone was really serious about creating a fake picture with Barry in the middle, why would he include that weird looking hand, knowing that it would immediately be cited as proof of fakery? That just doesn’t make sense.
This whole thing is just a joke that someone played on the world and a lot of people have taken the bait.
“If someone was really serious about creating a fake picture with Barry in the middle, why would he include that weird looking hand, knowing that it would immediately be cited as proof of fakery? That just doesn’t make sense.”
Exactly. If the fake was done well enough that you can’t see the crop lines, airbrushing, or disparate shadows, then there is no way they would have left that hand hanging there.