Obama's Fake Family Photo

Youtube ^ | March 29, 2011 | Chatter4

[chatter4]

Video. Obama's Fake Family Photo. It appears that this photo of Obama and his grandparents has been photoshopped. We know that much of Obama's history is phoney-were fake photos also made to back up his fake history?

[freekitty]

Good one. Why would he be wearing a wedding ring?

[Java4Jay]

bttt

[Tex-Con-Man]

Do a google image search and you'll find versions of the photo closer to an “original” in terms of quality, color and contrast.

The strange lighting effects you're describing aren't there in the higher quality photos.

I loaded several versions of the one with Obama in it into photoshop, and zoomed and couldn't find any obvious signs of editing.

The one in the video without Obama has clone stamping in the wall behind where granny was sitting.

[smokingfrog]

I don't see the odd artifacts in the wall on this one. But the stone in the middle of the wall on the left side certainly looks a lot different than on the right side. The background in the middle of the picture is all washed-out too.

[grdaal]

so exactly what are you saying?

[Gene Eric]

The shadowing is all screwed up. Obama’s right leg is not casting any discernible shadows against his grandfather’s left leg.

[pandoraou812]

Oh wow, she won’t be happy with her favorite Uncle!

[thecodont]

Grandma’s red suit is not reflected on BO’s black leather jacket.

[Plutarch]

Tin Eye has 107 examples of the photo.

What is needed to nail this is for a Freeper to go up and down Fifth Avenue and find the exact bench, based on the tree, and the irregularities in the bricks. And then to take detailed high resolution photographs. The bricks will have changed in the Photoshopped image, and verily, the stones will cry out that it is a fake.

[TheCipher]

The one in the video without Obama has clone stamping in the wall behind where granny was sitting.

Which is what one would expect. That one was made from the existing 3 person photo to show what the original probably looked like. It wasn't intended as representing the original photo. So, when they moved the grandma over, they just cloned the back to fill in the gaps ( and did not do a good job of it )

[Tex-Con-Man]

The sunlight is being filtered through a tree which is creating an uneven shadow effect on Obama and his Grandparents. The background seems to have full sunlight, washing it out compared to the foreground.

As far as the wall goes, if the purpose was to add Obama to the picture, there would be no reason to edit the wall on the left.

[TigersEye]

That’s probably a good sign that I’m doing good uncling. Besides it’s only 8 1/2 minutes long. Did you share the “what happens when you give a Dem a cookie” video? lol

[pandoraou812]

We were gone all day today getting the new dog. She has double school today lol.

[smokingfrog]

Grandpa’s hand still looks weird, though.

[TheCipher]

Yeah, like Thing from the Adams Family :-)

[Tex-Con-Man]

I thought his hands could be arthritic, like he can’t bend his fingers.

[Crucial]

Barry doesn’t look like a mixed child to me. With Dunham’s skin tone, I think Barry’s skin would have a different shade.

[Crucial]

There's no shadow between Obama's left leg and toot's right leg underneath the bench but extends to the left and right them.

Wierd.

[Crucial]

Look at the glare saturation on the folds of his pants,no glaring on Gma.

Like they were separate photos taken at different times of the day.

[Tex-Con-Man]

The shadowing is all screwed up. Obama’s right leg is not casting any discernible shadows against his grandfather’s left leg.

As you're looking at the image, the sun is coming from the upper left corner (maybe slightly behind), shining to the lower right. Obama's leg would be casting a shadow on Granny's skirt...and it does.