Railings, railings, where are those railings..........?
We have launched the daunting process of dissecting the metadata for many of the 'authorized' images depicting the alleged terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, at the scene of the Boston Marathon on April 15. The above analysis is an early example of the direction the photographic analysis appears to be heading. For us, application of photo forensics techniques at the specialist level raises questions that any reasonable, curious person might like to better understand.
At a basic level, our specialist, S Greene asks the not-so-obvious question: Why is the scalloped-style Forum restaurant railing in photo on right not a match to the rounded-style railing image on the left? The right-side verifiable railings image was taken, vetted, and published by another photographer same day, same location, within an hour or less of the image on the left? Our specialist visually reviewed sidewalk railings of every business establishment lining Boylston Street along the Marathon route and:
cannot find a match on the metal railing depicted in the left image with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Read the specialist's brief summary of results and you may draw your own conclusions. We have more of these photographic analysis reports to be posted in the coming days.
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