POTD: "Original pink Glock Prototype" (or not)
Published: February 12th, 2015
A reader, using a fake name (“Gustav Glöck”) and email address, submitted this photo. He or she wrote …
Original pink Glock Prototype, picture taken in a plant somewhere….
It is a photoshop. I have no doubts about that. See if you spot the problems with the photo that gave away that it has been ‘shopped.
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I would say it is a fake. The shadow is above the frame so the flash must have been below the camera. Eh? Also the frame has a very distinct shadow but the frames on the right have no shadow at all.
Then there is the reflection of the flash on the frames on the right. That reflection is on the same spot on every frame while, because of the different position of the flash in relation to each frame, the spot should be in different places on each frame.
And then, what is that little triangle shaped piece of pink on top of the frame above the trigger guard?
The pic isn't a fake "ain't nobody got time 4 dat", I just wanted to share this with you because I enjoyed reading tfb and thought you might appreciate it. My bad..(fake name and adress was to keep my job)