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In reply to the discussion: Was Franken "groping" photo photoshopped in 2009? [View all]DemoTex
(25,400 posts)My digital images are loaded to the max with metadata. And I have caught thieves on the internet, FWIW (nothing!). Much more satisfying, however, is to have your works stolen in the dark of night - from gallery walls. Then you enter an artists' world with a great history: art theft. C' est moi (x2)!
But that is not really my point. My point is (and I am not a portrait photographer) that Al Franken - funny man - was hamming it up for a person with a camera. Not a candid camera. A person with a camera (what kind of camera? - it is in the metadata, if it was digital). Was it a Hasselblad or high end Canon/Nikon of a professional? Or a cell phone (or point-and-shoot)? Again, the truth is in the metadata.
But he was looking at a witness with a camera, and his hands were posed. HE KNEW HE WAS BEING PHOTOGRAPHED. To come away with any other impression, is to believe in Steve Bannon. Verb sap.