This is an e mail just sent to me by Walt at High Valley Studios
a professional photographer and my Web Master. (He is managing
my live journal @
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sbn_nathanael/
and is presently building my soon to be revealed Web Site -
"Nathanael Speaks! And everybody listens." :
"I see no evidence that the photo in question is a cut-and-paste
job. First of all, it's extremely difficult to cut and paste two
images without leaving some hard edges where the two images
meet. If you look at the edge of the figure facing the camera, his
hair and beard blend perfectly into the background. If this were a
cut and paste, you would see digital artifacts of a hard edge all
along there.
Also, the lighting is perfectly uniform between the foreground
figures and the guy in the background wearing the hat. Uniform
lighting is the hardest of all to achieve in a cut-and-paste effort,
and it is the thing that can tip off a viewer the quickest, even if it
is on a subconscious, intuitive level. All the figures here are lit from
the same light source, from the same angle. Now, the two
figures embracing in the foreground do look strange, but likely
because one is much shorter than the other and his head is
completely covered.
But, technically, there is no visible evidence that this photo has
been tampered with."
In the mean time check out Lavr concelebrating w Alexy @
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sbn_nathanael/
Such A Picture!
+ROAC Subdeacon Nathanael