Wasn’t the photo shoot of AF1 supposed to be of Barack by extension?

Annuit Coeptis ^ | 5/9/09 | Blaine Fallis

[TWP guy]

Oh yes - there is a report released Friday afternoon to avoid further embarrassment, that misdirects the public by focusing on who knew of the photo shoot and when. Not once does the report explore in the slightest WHY they would be wanting to do a photo shoot of AF1 in the first place. No no, that’s not important, right? But the report does confirm several times over that this was in fact a photo shoot that had been in the planning since early March, or before.

That’s when it dawned on me: this President is the most photographed man in America. Image really is everything not only to him, but to many of his supporters (I’m thinking, for example, Hollywood), and taking an AF1 lookalike up over NYC with an F-16 fighter jet for the purposes of a photo shoot should not surprise anyone. The White House should spare no expense to capture history unfolding, as we witness this monumental period together. We need more photographs! These could’ve been so great for the gallery.

...We now have a celebrity in the Oval Office, backed by many other celebs, and supported by a celeb-loving culture. And in order to capture car scenes that ring true, we have a movie crew in New York crashing into actual citizens by accident last week. In order to capture the AF1 in a fresh new way (it all has to be new now, doesn’t it?) we have 9/11 accidentally re-enacted.

[Clive]

I just grabbed an image at random. They are all the same but most that I came across were smaller. I did not even notice the stamp in the upper right corner.

I had first tried to see if there was a White House page with the picture but had no luck. Apparently the WH is not sufficiently proud of the shot to put it in its own site.

[PowderMonkey]

"Apparently the WH is not sufficiently proud of the shot to put it in its own site."

Probably because they can't. It's not theirs. Appears to be copyrighted by Suomen Kuvalehti.fi. A weekly news magazine in Finland.

[Toespi]

I would assume that the WH has professional official photographers, as does the Air Force. Is there a possibility that this photo was taken by a satellite?

[Son House]

Who was on the plane?

A good chance among those on board were Tax Cheats

[Tax Government]

Pictures of the president’s jet over New York and the Statue of Liberty are meant to convey these messages:

1) solidarity with the terrorists

2) an implicit threat to America

3) superiority to America’s liberty

[Brilliant]

I still don’t buy that this was a photo shoot. Aside from the fact that they could have achieved the same thing with photo shop, why did they need the fighter jets? And if ou look at the photo, it’s not like it was done by an expert photographer. They use a wide angle lens, which is shown by the fact that the Statue of Liberty was so small in the photo. This was obviously done by amatuers, which suggests to me that the photo was just something that someone decided to take, or possibly the photo was itself a fake, in order to cover up the real purpose of the mission. What I want to know is what was the real purpose of the mission? In order to know that, you’ve got to know who was on the plane and what were they doing during the flight? So far, no word on that.

[Brilliant]

I wonder if you could make anything of the ferries that are in the photo. How many ferries were there at the particular time it flew over?

[MinuteGal]

The pic looks photoshopped to me.

I'm with you on your questions. What time did the plane fly over Lady Liberty? Then, what time were those ferries docked in their particular alignment?

Then, are there any shadows that give a clue as to the time of day? The brightness of the plane and the darkness of the background gives me pause.

The games afoot, Sherlockian sleuths. Carry on.

Leni

[aruanan]

This was the best they could do? $300K gets you this amateurish shot? I've seen better sense of composition by the local highschool photography club.

Here's where you're wrong. The shot is exactly what Barry intended. He wants to show himself as Air Force One overshadowing, dominating, and making small Lady Liberty--this is the concept of the primacy of his office over the entire nation.

[aruanan]

I'm with you on your questions. What time did the plane fly over Lady Liberty? Then, what time were those ferries docked in their particular alignment?

I saw film of the plane flying from the right to the left toward the Statue of Liberty with the fighter slightly trailing it. It looked as if it could have been shot from Brooklyn. From there (well, from where I lived near 38th St and 5th Ave) you can see the State of Liberty to the left and Manhattan to the right.

[FourPeas]

That has to be about the lowest quality “PR” photo I’ve ever seen

Exactly.

[Brilliant]

You can see reflection on the window, and a darkening of the bottom of the screen from the fact that the photo was taken out of a window. Not the ideal setup for a “glamour shot.” If you were going to spend $325,000 doing this, you’d use a professional, not a fighter pilot, to take the shot. Most likely, when they realized that they were going to need a photo to support their story, they sent another plane out to photograph the statue, and then photoshopped the plane into the photo.

[Taffini]

why would you take a publicity photo on such a crappy overcast day in the first place?

[odin2008]

[MinuteGal]

Where's Buckhead when we need him?

Leni

[adorno]

That’s when it dawned on me: this President is the most photographed man in America.

Okay, it's dawning on me too that, the photoshoot over NYC was not just to photograph the Statue of Liberty or NYC. The photoshoot was for Obama's ego-trip.

So, okay, we've had enough photos of him, from all angles and from many different situations. But, has anybody seen a statue of "The One".

"The One" believes that he's larger than life and larger than anyone that came before him. So, he believes that, a larger than life statue that captures his essence would be the most appropriate tribute to himself. So, he's looking over the possibility of replacing the statue of liberty with one of himself. But, instead of him holding up a torch, he'll be holding up a hammer and sickle.

[adorno]

So, he's looking over the possibility of replacing the statue of liberty with one of himself. But, instead of him holding up a torch, he'll be holding up a hammer and sickle.

Which reminds me...

I wonder if anyone can do a photoshop of Obama as a replacement of the statue of liberty and Air Force One flying above the statue.

[visualops]

None of it makes any sense. Especially releasing only one (lousy) photo. Given the hue and cry, why not release a bunch so people feel like they at least made it worthwhile? The whole thing stinks. Like they say ‘what’s wrong with this picture’?

[visualops]

I was just about to post the same thing when I saw your comment. The public is being hoodwinked. That flight was not for a photo op. If it was, they likely would have taken a lot of video in addition to stills.
What was the weather like the day of the flyover? Was it perfectly sunny like this photo?

[visualops]

For comparison- real file photos of AF1, without window sills and window glare.
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/021126-O-9999G-024.jpg
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/021126-O-9999G-023.jpg