Is this the weirdest picture ever?

[fandandy 3,311]

https://media.breitbart.com/media/2021/05/the-carters-meet-640x480.jpg

Did the Carters shrink or are the Bidens giants?

[Voltaire 4,556]

WTF?

[Strike 3,957]

What's better is the fact that they weren't wearing masks when meeting with the Carter's, but when they left to go OUTDOORS they put their masks on:

 

[Big Guy 1,400]

very strange

[Hardcore troubadour 12,624]

9 minutes ago, Strike said:

What's better is the fact that they weren't wearing masks when meeting with the Carter's, but when they left to go OUTDOORS they put their masks on:

 

Clown show 

[KSB2424 3,082]

It looks like a ventriloquist act.  

[peenie 1,690]

That was weird looking and a funny observation about the mask. But maybe they had the masks on inside the house but just took them off briefly for the picture. 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,624]

1 hour ago, peenie said:

That was weird looking and a funny observation about the mask. But maybe they had the masks on inside the house but just took them off briefly for the picture. 

Oh. That’s cool then. Never mind. 

[fandandy 3,311]

17 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Oh. That’s cool then. Never mind. 

Covid doesn't spread during picture taking.  

[fandandy 3,311]

Had it been Trump though CNN's headline would have read The Trump's Attempt to Kill President and Mrs. Carter!!!

[lickin_starfish 1,480]

SfKJ7mPY.jpeg (864×487) (patriots.win)

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,577]

2 hours ago, peenie said:

That was weird looking and a funny observation about the mask. But maybe they had the masks on inside the house but just took them off briefly for the picture. 

why does the president want to kill old people?

if he does he should start with himself

 

[Cdub100 3,380]

11 minutes ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

why does the president want to kill old people?

if he does he should start with himself

 

Why doesn't he trust the science? He's been vaccinated for months. Typical science denier. 

[IGotWorms 3,309]

Old people shrink bigtime.

Still looks really weird though

[Old School 360]

2 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

Old people stink bigtime.

This too

[lickin_starfish 1,480]

Seems like Potato would have shrank too, since he's wicked old.

[vuduchile 1,941]

That's a scene from Elf

[5-Points 2,726]

6 hours ago, fandandy said:

https://media.breitbart.com/media/2021/05/the-carters-meet-640x480.jpg

Did the Carters shrink?

THEY WERE IN THE POOL!!! 

[Voltaire 4,556]

NYTimes explanaition. Archived to deprive them of clicks and ad revenue.

https://archive.is/wnObG

[TheNewGirl 1,022]

On 5/4/2021 at 8:06 AM, peenie said:

That was weird looking and a funny observation about the mask. But maybe they had the masks on inside the house but just took them off briefly for the picture. 

Hey, almost 90 year olds...take off your masks and hold your breath for a few pics. 
 

dumb. 

[fandandy 3,311]

20 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

NYTimes explanaition. Archived to deprive them of clicks and ad revenue.

https://archive.is/wnObG

Check your link.

[Voltaire 4,556]

Wide-Angle Oddity: Giant Bidens Meet Tiny Carters

A picture of two presidents and first ladies led to many Hobbit jokes online. We explain what happened.

Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, received a visit from President Biden and Jill Biden at their home in Plains, Ga., last month. The photo caused a stir.Credit...Adam Schultz/The White House, via Associated Press

By Heather Murphy

May 5, 2021Updated 6:43 p.m. ET

It was a pleasant 86 or so degrees in Plains, Ga., when President Biden and Jill Biden visited former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, at their home on April 29.

Dr. Biden wore a dress covered in lemons and two delicate silver bracelets. Ms. Carter was dressed more casually in a white long-sleeved T-shirt, sneakers and a smart watch. Mr. Biden wore a royal-blue suit, and Mr. Carter a sport coat over a T-shirt.

“We just had a nice time,” Mr. Biden said later.

Reporters were not permitted inside, but a photo of the two couples that the Carter Center posted Monday on Twitter — with its toothy grins and teacups — seemed to back this up.

Except one thing was off: At some point during the visit, the Bidens appeared to have turned into giants.

Dr. Biden is 5-foot-6. So far as the world knows. Mr. Carter, 96, stood around 5-foot-10 at his tallest. But even kneeling, she appeared to dwarf him. And Mr. Biden, who is six feet tall, seemed to hover above the man he had come to pay his respects to. It was if the hosts had been turned into Hobbits.

The Carter Center

@CarterCenter

We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the @POTUS and @FLOTUS visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.! Thank you President and Mrs. Biden!

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“Did they pull some Gandalf/Hobbit perspective trickery or are the Biden’s actually this gigantic?” one man asked on Twitter. Another user asked if she was “the only one who thinks this looks like a tiny doll museum, and Joe and Jill are giants?”

The Real Beth

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Adorable! But am I the only one who thinks this looks like a tiny doll museum, and Joe and Jill are giants?

DemSwag

@DemSwag_com

Here's a quick example of removing the extreme lens distortion. A wide angle lens causes everything on the outer edges of the image to expand, and center to contract — the small room made a wide angle lens necessary.

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In a thread on Reddit that was full of Hobbit jokes, others countered that perhaps age had shrunk the former president to three feet. Or maybe, some wondered, there was something going on with the lens.

So which is it?

Reached by phone Adam Schultz, the chief official White House photographer, confirmed that he took the photo but declined to explain. “It’s for people to figure out and think about,” he said.

The answer can be found in Mr. Carter’s gigantic shoes, said Pete Souza, a former chief official White House photographer for President Barack Obama. Compared to the rest of him they look huge.

“That to me is an indication that the foreground was distorted by a super-wide-angle lens,” he said.

Such lenses can be helpful when a photographer is trying to shoot several people in a small room and cannot get far back enough to get everyone in the same frame with another lens. But they are notorious for distorting proportions, Mr. Souza said.

Jaron Schneider, the editor in chief of PetaPixel, a photography and camera news website, had a similar theory.

“It’s called perspective distortion,” he said.

Wide-angle lenses make objects closer to the camera appear to be much larger than objects that are even just a tiny bit farther away.

Because the Carters are leaning back, the wide-angle lens exaggerates the few inches between them and the Bidens, Mr. Schneider said. Had the Bidens and Carters been seated on exactly the same plane, this effect would not have been so striking. This is why the two men’s shoes seem to be on a similar scale.

The placement of the chairs also exacerbates the distortion, he said. The center of a wide-angle photo tends to look natural. But once you start moving toward the edge of the photo, the proportions get increasingly distorted. Had everyone been huddled around the lamp, the effect would not have been so noticeable.

“Wide-angle lenses have this angle no matter how optically correct they are,” Mr. Schneider said, adding that these sorts of optical distortions can be fixed in post production.

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Senator Joe Biden met President Carter in the Oval Office in October 1979, when they were both normal sized. Credit...Sen. Biden's office via Associated Press

But while editing the photo may have made it look more realistic, that would be frowned upon, said Doug Mills, a photographer assigned to the Washington bureau of The New York Times.

Mr. Mills was outside the Carters’ home during the photo session and saw the flash go off inside. He agreed that it seemed likely that a wide-angle lens was used to solve the problem of capturing all four subjects in a small space.

Some asked why the Carter Center would release a distorted photo, or why it was not edited to remove the distortion.

“That would be completely forbidden,” Mr. Mills said. Official White House photographers are supposed to abide by ethical rules similar to those followed by photojournalists, he said.

The picture, for all its amusing flaws, is history.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,624]

“Dr” Biden.  Lol. 

[IGotWorms 3,309]

9 hours ago, Voltaire said:

Archived to deprive them of clicks and ad revenue.

Ghey

[Hardcore troubadour 12,624]

22 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

Ghey

Triggered 

[Voltaire 4,556]

1 hour ago, IGotWorms said:

Ghey

The business model for these corporate media outlets is often archaic as they've had difficulty raising revenue in the internet era, so it's nice to raise awareness every now and then to encourage folks to deprive them of revenue. The NYTimes is maybe more reslilant due to the Pareto distribution of things, but still worth taking on. 

For me, what it boils down to is that the NYT wants to see America's founding principals topple, so I want to see outlets liie the NYT topple. If they do, that'll make room for smaller, independant news providers to thrive.

[IGotWorms 3,309]

2 hours ago, Voltaire said:

The business model for these corporate media outlets is often archaic as they've had difficulty raising revenue in the internet era, so it's nice to raise awareness every now and then to encourage folks to deprive them of revenue. The NYTimes is maybe more reslilant due to the Pareto distribution of things, but still worth taking on. 

For me, what it boils down to is that the NYT wants to see America's founding principals topple, so I want to see outlets liie the NYT topple. If they do, that'll make room for smaller, independant news providers to thrive.

Yes I understand. And it’s ghey

[IGotWorms 3,309]

Not to mention also a violation of copyright law. But you guys don’t care about that kind of stuff anymore. No principles but the cause, whatever that is

[fandandy 3,311]

Some of the dumb sh!t you clowns decide to argue about is mind-boggling.

[IGotWorms 3,309]

1 hour ago, fandandy said:

Some of the dumb sh!t you clowns decide to argue about is mind-boggling.

Welcome to the Geek Club

[Hardcore troubadour 12,624]

1 hour ago, IGotWorms said:

Yes I understand. And it’s ghey

Homophobic