I really wondering, why is the aura around the horses front of the sky, why is the fogy edge under the closer horse head/chin, why is the unsharp parts on the mane, why is the lower lip got unnatural shape, why is the otherwise long chin hairs(beard?) ending where is the contour of the chin?
I did chek one of my deer photo was scanned in a low res, and the deer is much further then the horse, but still the chin hair (beard) can be seen on the picture. On John's photo those long chin hairs are visible, but they are ending right on the contour. It is happening if the surrounding was erased and the hair was erased with it too.
If you take a look on a lover lip, it looks like paritally open a little, but if you look closer, you can see something unnatural going on over there too. The lip line is suddenly changing, but the upper lip is became square.
Looks like the photographer tought the lips are was open a little and make a gap between them with the eraser tool in PS.
Under the head and front of the neck on the contour there is a fogy unsharp line. It is not happening on a not manipulated photo. Also the aura around the horses front of the sky is not happening on a non manipulated photo. I do photography on slide more then ten years, but non of my pictures ever happened anything like that!
On a mane, closer to the left edge of the picture, the long hairs suddenly became unsharp. But not just a little unsharp, it is totaly blured out! This much blure is happening if the subject is way out of the focal plane, or it was blured in Photoshop. But I have no idea why it needed to blure out that few sections, because it is not make any different (not make the picture better) but make it unnatural. The only reason I can think about, there was something needed to clone out, but the undetected cloning is very hard in such a places, so the inperfection of the cloning needed to be cover with the blure.
If not, I realy wandering why are those blured areas was happened on the picture.
One thing is for sure! These things I just mentioned here, are not happening on a not manipulated photo! So the picture was manipulated somehow.
The other question get in my mind is, the realtively clear sky, and the lighting conditions on the horses. There is clouds on the sky but not as thick, even we can see the blue sky. The sun can get trought on this thick clouds pretty well giving much more contrast lighting conditions. But on the horse, the lights shows as a lights in a very overcast day. There is no contrast no shadows, cant realy seen where the lighting coming from. Looks like the picture was taken an overcast day with thick clouds which act as a diffusor. But there is no thick clouds on the sky. This is the other reason, why I suspect that, the sky was added later to the picture.
So I really like to get answers to these questions, because I can't find any photography explanations to them, only one, the picture was extensively manipulated.
But of corse over here I gonna became a black sheep, a bad guy anyway no matther what.
But I know what I'm know. These effects are not hapening on a captured photo, but happening on a computer manipulated photos.