Earlier today I notices some silliness about a Harris event at a Michigan airport.
Specifically:
It wasn’t just D’Souza, but Trump himself got into the act on Truth Social (Trump Posts Absolutely BONKERS Conspiracy About Kamala Harris Crowd Size Easily Disproven By Video Evidence).
Here’s the deal, speaking as an admittedly amateur photographer, but one with a decent amount of knowledge and experience.
First, this is clearly taken with a long, telephoto lens. Such a lens will compress the image, making it look like the foreground and the distant object are a lot closer than is actually the case. This, by itself, would affect what is likely to be reflected on the plane.
Second, as a person who truly loves a reflection shot (and I mean, I really like a good reflection), I can attest that the relative placement of the reflective surface, the thing you want to see reflected, and the position of the camera can have a profound effect on what reflection you do, or do not, capture.
By way of illustration, the photo above is from a store in the Notting Hill area of London that I took back in May. I had to move around to get the reflections I wanted, and even then I am not sure I got the exact shot I wanted.
I always find these attempts to dissect a single-frame image to be so very absurd. A picture may well be worth a 1,000 words, but it is also true that a single image often reveals far less than meets the eye. A single image is truly a slice of time measured in fractions of a second.
Third, there is plenty of additional evidence to confirm the situation (such as here).
And here:
Fourth, if the Harris campaign is desperate enough to post AI-generated crowds, that should make Trump happy rather than him asserting she is “cheating.” Indeed, he is telling on himself that he is worried that her crowds are, in fact, large and enthusiastic because crowd size matters to Donald Trump.
