It's not even a prop. There's no reflection of it on the very shiny polished table. Also it's somehow slightly out of focus compared to the rest of the picture. There's no way they can say it was a coincidence that the picture was taken at that angle, because is was not even really in the photo.

Depth of field is an optical property of lenses. Bright light allows cameras to stop down and that increases the depth of field, the range in which details are sharp. It also depends on the enlargement of the image. High enlargement increases the size of the blurs.

Lower light, like indoor light, decreases depth of field because the lens has to open up.

People don't usually know about depth of field because our eyes adjust focus instantly as we move the point of central interest. But even our eye lenses behave the same. This is why we increase lighting when concentrating on detail work so that the natural depth of field increases and increases the range we can get in focus, with or without glasses.

As to a reflection, trace the rays, Luke. A model some inches above a table means that the reflection would be in front, closer to the camera, and may be close enough to be cropped out by the frame.

Haven't seen the picture and the link to MSN only shows a video, not a photo.

I can see the reflection of the plane. So maybe not photoshopped. Something still looks off to me though.

But I'm playing blindfold chess here.

I hide my canklea every chance I get as well!