Officially, photos of people with food/drink on the ride are supposed to be deleted. The reason is that Disney doesn't officially sell photos of people breaking its safety rules. But as we all know, there are pictures that get through because the CM at the edit room 1) made an honest mistake and didn't catch it]Speaking of not buying pictures with other people in them: there was one time, several years ago, we wanted to get a pic of all the grandkids (my sister, myself, and our two cousins) on Splash for our (now late) grandmother. We asked for a log to ourselves to accommodate this, but the CM's said they couldn't do it (the line was too long). We ended up being put into the front of a log with one other guy, who we didn't know, sitting in the very back. We went to check the picture to see if it looked any good even though we would never buy a picture with someone else who we don't know in it...Amazingly, the guy disappeared! I swear to you, we don't know to this day if he ducked down or went invisible or what, but he is not at all in the picture! One of my cousins adopted that picture after my grandma's death, and we still laugh about the disappearing guy! :p: [/QUOTE]Kwahati wrote:See, the really elaborate poses aren't any fun (or respectful) unless you have a whole car (or log or ride vehicle) to yourself (who buys the pics with other parties in them too anyway?). And I'm pretty sure they picked Space Mountain for the cheeto's gag because it doesn't go fast enough to risk making a mess or getting any on other guests. It's all about making fun for yourself without causing grief for others (hence my shame about the map on RnR causing a delay...)
It is possible that the computer photo system cut the guy out. Only a small portion of the area photographed actually goes into the printed picture because of the amount of space the Splash Mountain background takes up. The system has cut out the hands of people who put their hands up, as well as people sitting in the backs of logs.
Or it's possible that the guy overheard your situation and, not caring about his own picture (or not wanting to be in your grandmother's picture), ducked down so you would appear to have a log all to yourself.
Whatever happened, it couldn't have been a CM editing the picture. The edit room CM sits in a booth by himself or herself, isolated from the store and the ride operators, and doesn't have the ability to edit pictures. The software just doesn't allow it.
