Hi, I'm new here. I've done my intro, and now I'd like to show you my examination of "the falling man". (I hope I am not repeating what someone else already found!)
If you were told a photo of a man falling might be your relative, wouldn't you turn it upside down, to really get a good look at him? What do you notice about his right arm(s), his shoulder and his bottom when he is turned right-side-up?
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losarahk at 2012-05-12
On the photo below I have circled the white, bare arm that hangs right behind the jacketed arm. At first I thought he had been cropped from a photo where someone had their arm around him, but then I realized that the bare arm was the REAL arm, which rested casually on the bent leg. There is also something under his behind with a piece of silver pole. Assuming publishers had a much bigger version of the photo, why didn't they spot the bad photo-shopping, eh?
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losarahk at 2012-05-12
Realizing the person underneath the photoshopped torso and head had a
white arm and a short-sleeved dark top on, I coloured over the light jacket to recreate the short sleeved top. As soon as I did, it became obvious to me that the leg positions were explained by the resting position of the real right hand. Whoever that person was, they were
sitting casually, with one foot higher than another, as if resting on the rung of a stool or chair. I added (loosely) a stool and replaced the missing foot, which I think was cropped by accident, or to make his sitting posture less obvious.
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losarahk at 2012-05-12
