We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the @POTUS and @FLOTUS visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.!
— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) May 4, 2021
Thank you President and Mrs. Biden! pic.twitter.com/QcA33iUev4
Well, like everything else, people felt compelled to talk out their asses on the internet about it, and I've heard everything from "green screen" to "deepfake" to "Photoshop", most of which made me laugh.
I was going to use my 17-35mm zoom to illustrate wide-angle distortion, since it covers a good range of focal lengths from the wide end of "normal" all the way out to ultrawide. But I am lazy, and The Online Photographer beat me to it, anyway.
He's got a good breakdown of what you're looking at, but the teal deer* is that if you look at Jimmy, who is leaning back in his chair (and what photographer is going to tell a nonagenarian ex-president to sit up straight?), you'll notice that his feet look much larger than they should, relative to his head. The optical illusion is heightened by the wizened Rosalynn, who was 5'5" in her prime, sitting slightly abaft six-footer Joe.
There are plenty of real worrisome things happening in the world without inventing flat-earth, fake-moon-landing, chemtrails-tier nonsense about a photo that doesn't even look weird if you know anything about lenses.
*That's tl;dr†, for the unhip
†tl;dr means "too long; didn't read", for the extremely unhip
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