ORIGINAL: Tomkat08
I know what ghosting is mate. And your right about that, but you can see also there is no shadow from anything especially the arrow itself. With a flash, such as what is seen in this image there will very well be one from the arrow or the deer itself.
If you zoom all the way it it was clone brushed then an eraser was used to touch up the edges. This is where the humps came from mate. I have seen this thousands of times, and if you try to clean up too much you get this effect. If you did it with single pixel size you wont see it as much.
Im dead set on it being a fake image here. Too much visual evidence on the edges of the deer from a touched up image.
He/she would have no reason to only use the clone brush on the back only when extracting the image. I teach this stuff, and this is one of the first tools I teach my students when making selections. That "selection" of the deer has areas that would DEFINITELY have rough edges once cut out that would need some minor (or major depending on experience) touch up done with the clone stamp. Not just the back. What about the tail? What about the hoof? The dirt in front of the hoof? Why is that perfect? I think the back is just tufts of hair rasing up on the back, but we will see because the guy has sent it in to a professional company (the same one that cracked the world record hogzilla hoax), and they will be analyzing it. I doubt it's fake.