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

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

[Texas resident]

Fits the pattern. This whole obama world is fishy.

[Royal Wulff]

Here is a link to the photo actually released by the White House.

It's important to use the actual file if you want to look for metadata.

In that file you will find the EXIF header has been removed, so we don't know what type of camera was used. My guess is it was the pilot's personal $150 point-and shoot and he took this picture as a souvenir. There was no professional photographer on the F-16, as the intention was to film the two planes together from a thrid platform.

Also, you can tell the file as been photoshopped (maybe just to remove the EXIF data) by the distinctive presence of tags "JFIF", "Ducky", and "Adobe" in the header. Google those tags to see why that is a signature of Photoshop.

[Royal Wulff]

The original White House photo, as released, was run through Photoshop for some reason. See my post above.

[PowderMonkey]

Very telling. Those shots reveal something the WH released photo lacks: visual distortion/bluring caused by exhaust heat in the visual field immediately aft of the engines.

[Clive]

This deserves a thread of its own to explicitly discuss evidence that this was a photoshopped picture.

[visualops]

It doesn't really matter if it was run through photoshop. The EXIF data however was purposefully removed. As you can see, the other AF1 stock photos have EXIF data albeit limited. What it says though is that the photo was either run through a filter or just the EXIF data removed. It doesn't look like it was run through a filter or enhanced which is actually odd because it is a lousy shot. Now the photo up at the defense link somebody did enhance that copy.
About the exhaust it's hard to tell because they are over water but I do not see any noticeable distortion or blurring of the water surface wave pattern.

The big problem with this image is that it is terrible!! You don't take AF1 glamour shots through a window! This is an amateur photo!!
The flight was so obviously not for the stated purpose and they think we are all idiots!

[Steve Van Doorn]