White House Manipulates Obama Photo with Halo

White House website blog ^ | 1 September 2009 | White House Phot

[mbarker12474]

Check out the photograph of the Obamessiah accompanying this White House blog entry:
TUE, SEPTEMBER 1, 12:31 PM EST
Photostream: Work and Rest in August
Posted by Kori Schulman

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(President Barack Obama addresses a town hall meeting on health insurance reform inside a hangar at Gallatin Field in Belgrade, Mont., on Aug. 14, 2009. Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

Here is the photo of interest. Look at the halo:

Either the airplane hanger has a light directly behind Obama's head, or a halo has been photoshoped surrounding the messiah.

[cripplecreek]

Seems an odd place to put a light.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Odd, but I’d guess there is a window behind his head. The lighting looks credible. The composition looks contrived. Photoshopping a halo like that is not as easy as it might seem. It looks very authentic.

The only issue is the WH selecting photos with halos.

[paulycy]

Antidote:

[clamper1797]

Delusions of grandeur

[Coldwater Creek]

Did you notice the halo around Ted Kennedy’s head during the death week?

[blueyon]

[WKUHilltopper]

Hey Zero! This crap doesn’t work anymore! Remember, you’re the “transparency president”. And buddy, I can assure you, we see right through you!

[Names Ash Housewares]

[longfellow]

as tawana brawley would say “it was manipsulated”
As a photoshop artist i can say it is a fake.
if it were real you would see the light coming through his ear from the other side.

[justlurking]

Seems an odd place to put a light.

That's exactly what I thought.

Airplane hangers don't have lights there. They aren't wired with power at that location.

If there was really a light there, it was put up especially for this occasion. And the photographer specifically positioned the camera, knowing that this effect would occur.

This is propaganda that would make Goebbels proud.

[listenhillary]

[cripplecreek]

That’s what struck me as odd about it. Also I would expect the light to by mounted on the beam rather than in the center of the panel.

[RummyChick]

its photoshopped - at least parts of it are..there are white areas on his forehead and under his eye..like a stray mark that shouldn’t be there as they were creating the photo.

[Blue Jays]

It is insane of them to allow that photograph to be posted to the White House website.
They are absolutely out-of-their-minds nuts.

[Quix]

GROSS.

GOD HAVE MERCY ON US.

[newfreep]

Considering there are no supporting poles, wires, stands, etc for a light source, one can only conclude the halo was photoshopped. The halo is just too perfectly placed to be real.

[ArrogantBustard]

I've been in MANY airplane hangars ...

On the wall there is a hugely unlikely place for a light of any kind. Just doesn't make any sense.

Photoshop job, sez I.