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« Back from NRA meeting | Main | The legal dilemma posed by pistol-gripped shotguns »

Moms Demand "demonstration" pic uses trick photography

Posted by David Hardy · 12 April 2015 07:32 PM

While at the meeting, I wandered over to the "Moms Demand" so-called demonstration. (It was over half a mile from the meeting, but since the object was publicity I suppose its location was unimportant to its organizers). It looked like a hundred people or so people were there (its organizer had predicted four hundred).

To put in context, 300 attorneys attended NRA's National Firearms Law Seminar.

The Moms event was pitiful. One guy sung some sixties sorta-protest songs, while an old lady danced around with a red banner. Two people held a banner where cars could see it.

They had to use trick photography to try to inflate their numbers for a pic. As the linked page points out, they took the photo on an incline. They had some people stand close to the camera, then others formed up 50-100 yards back, at just the right angle to create the impression that their massed group was that deep, when most of the distance was empty space.

Here's an enlargement of a portion to show how they did it. Notice the rear ranks are far apart from the front ones.

In the full picture at the linked page I counted a total of 102 people, right about my estimate. With the trick photo, it seems like 2-3 times that.

2 Comments | Leave a comment

Frank Masotti | April 12, 2015 8:56 PM | Reply

Well lie's trick's and emotion's is all they have. Logic and statistics never come into their arguments.

DJ9 | April 13, 2015 10:59 PM | Reply

Not the first time they've tried/used a trick like this. Check out pix of their marches across the bridges in New York; all you can see is the front two rows of people and a mass of signs.

I keep telling pro-gun people if there is a MDA march/demonstration near them, they should attend just to take photos so folks will know how few MDA supporters actually show up. Often the group seems to use a friendly press photog or one of their own folks to take pics that show the group in the best light, numbers-wise. Keep your distance from the group so you're not mistaken for a supporter.

Get high-up, and take several wide shots at the peak of the gathering; good photos take the guesswork out of "estimating" attendee numbers.

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