Everyone seems to be walking around the accusations by examining whether they are or arenāt M&Ms. That is not whatās important. What we should be looking at is instead, the so-called droplets, compared to the background image.
The angles within the droplets do not realistically coincide with one another! As well, I donāt spend much time staring at drops of water, but I can surely say Iāve never seen such clarity in any water droplet. Also, as in the former picture, there is an obvious fogging on the glass, surely caused by whichever process was used to spray the water. Where is the fog?
On top of all that, the drops are amazingly tiny compared to the anonymous-candy. One could argue the sheet is further away than in the āexampleā pic, but the blurring of the candies definitely objects to that. We could also try to assume that the spray method used in the āoriginalā photo caused much tinier water spots, but are we to believe that the photographer was so careless that they couldnāt recreate the correct droplet size in the āexampleā? Surely, they should have been able to cause at least a closer resemblance.
Sure seems like they went out of their way to showcase the methodology of how the photograph was taken, yet neglected to go far enough to ensure it could be a like-comparison?