03-11-2015, 07:03 PM
I'm with Ray.
Observable "convergence" of shadows is a trick of perspective, just like railroad tracks, straight roads receding, etc. Divergence is impossible with the Sun as a light source; if you get divergence, you get a forgery.
Edit: to use your photos above, the shadows of the bars behind the boy do not converge. If you went and measured the separation of each shadow, they would be exactly the same distance apart as the bars are, regardless how far from the bar you measure the distance between the shadows. You are tricked into the optical illusion that they converge, because the bars are farther away from the camera than the boy is, and therefore take up a smaller arc thru the camera lens (or the eye) and on the film.
As to whether or not the BYP are complete fakes or not, I'm personally agnostic. I think its far more likely that the images are real but the provenance of those images has been fabricated; however, the existence of the DPD "cutout photo" leaves me with serious doubts.
I think that, if real, the image of Oswald in the backyard holding a different gun than the one recovered from the TSBD, is far more probative of something relevant to the actual assassination, than it would if the image were a complete hoax, which, to me, only reaches a post-assassination cover-up or frame-up.
Observable "convergence" of shadows is a trick of perspective, just like railroad tracks, straight roads receding, etc. Divergence is impossible with the Sun as a light source; if you get divergence, you get a forgery.
Edit: to use your photos above, the shadows of the bars behind the boy do not converge. If you went and measured the separation of each shadow, they would be exactly the same distance apart as the bars are, regardless how far from the bar you measure the distance between the shadows. You are tricked into the optical illusion that they converge, because the bars are farther away from the camera than the boy is, and therefore take up a smaller arc thru the camera lens (or the eye) and on the film.
As to whether or not the BYP are complete fakes or not, I'm personally agnostic. I think its far more likely that the images are real but the provenance of those images has been fabricated; however, the existence of the DPD "cutout photo" leaves me with serious doubts.
I think that, if real, the image of Oswald in the backyard holding a different gun than the one recovered from the TSBD, is far more probative of something relevant to the actual assassination, than it would if the image were a complete hoax, which, to me, only reaches a post-assassination cover-up or frame-up.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."