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Posted on 09/23/2012 7:50:32 AM PDT by profit_guy
So Barack Obama who did fill the 23,000 seat amphitheater in 2008 before achieving his Democrat advantage in the state of D +6 at the voting booth could not even fill the 5,000 seat theater next door for his first visit to the state in 220 days during peak election fervor yet the media are polling this state as if he will achieve an even bigger turnout advantage in November? They’re not journalists, they’re partisan advocates.
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I disagree. Looks too dang similar.
On this, we can agree.
It looks to my eye as if they have copied and pasted sections of the crowd in the rear..
After looking at the circles closely, look away from the photo, then loot at the back for the repeating pattern of white shirts. About three or four similar patterns of color repeated across.
I didn’t circle everything that is weird with that photo. There’s more there. They likely used the photo editor tools like smudge, et al to fool.
I’m quite familiar with Photoshop, and it does not appear that the Cloning Tool (nor Healing Tool) was used in your examples.
i.e. I don’t see any duplication.
So the photo looks totally legit to you?
I hate to say it, but yes.
However, I don’t see the same result for Obama as in 2008.
Is the depth of field consistent in the photo to what is expected from front to back throughout the picture? I’m not so sure about that.
The depth of field is fine too. I checked it by cloning a ‘typical head’ in the middle of the crowd, and compared it to a ‘typical head’ at the back of the crowd.
I’m not saying I trust Dems whatsoever, but this pic appears legit - and it was 2008 afterall.
Yes I see what you mean. You know I see every now and then that a newspaper fires a photographer for doctoring a photo.. but you never see where the newspaper’s “reporters” are fired for doctoring a news story or doctoring the news by spiking a story that the newspaper does not like.
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