As a guy who has been up several stories in open elevators & in open structural steel framework I can confirm those series of pics are fake.Well said! I now have a new word in my vocabulary
Being in an open air elevator or in the structural framework never bothered me as much as being 50 ft up on a scissors jack. After those things have been used for a few yrs they develop some slop in the side to side, so you get some movement. Plus you are at the grace of hydraulics holding you up there.
When you say fake, do you mean they are actually at ground level and it was photo shopped before that was invented? We all know there were three photographers there, and the guys were posing, but that doesn't constitute a fake pic. I read that article and it doesn't say they were models posing or that they weren't really iron workers. So...?
I've started a reply 2 or 3 times now & it's easy to get too complicated very quickly. I'm trying to keep this simple by not getting into engineering & steel erection techniques, by just giving what is known about the photograph & some easy things to think about.
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