There are indeed (non-trivial) ways to analyze photos to determine if they are edited, but regardless of how it's created, a jpg, or most all published image files, will be flattened (i.e. all layers become one single layer).
1 & 3. Mere light fixtures are nowhere near as bright as the sun, and it's very bright lighting that causes ghosting artifacts. These are indoor light fixtures, man. Nobody averts their gaze from a damn light fixture. These aren't bright, directional strobes, either.
Nothing you provided me, and you had ALL OF THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY to choose from, depicted anything even remotely like a detailed identifiable shape, and especially a detailed pattern of uniform white dots. And then, to have these precisely uniform white dots forming an spade coming out of the President's sleeve, and nowhere else? C'mon, Gaslight Gary, give it up. You're talking complete retard shit. Again, why?
Where'd I say "wide angle lens"? Nowhere. You're now making shit up. Terrible stuff, Gary.
Not only did you not take the opportunity to find even one image, anywhere, ever, that displayed ghosting artifacts anything even remotely like what this image shows, but now your complete ignorance really comes shining through, and you just spew blatant counterfactuals. Just read this one, little article, and please learn what you're talking about before you totally embarrass yourself anywhere else ( https://photographylife.com/what-is-ghosting-and-flare ) It's clear, and indisputable, that "The (lens flare, and ghosting) effect is greatly amplified when the lens is stopped down to its minimum aperture". So you're not just wrong, you're the complete opposite of right. Embarrassing, and very weird.
Fixed focal length are not irrelevant. Zoom lenses have far more optical elements, and thus can result far more ghosting artifacts. And I quote: "Aside from the visible veiling flare visible in the images, you can also see various circular artifacts/orbs in each image – those are referred to as “ghosts”. The total number of these ghosts varies by how many elements there are within each lens. Typically, the more elements, the more ghosts will appear in images."
Gaslight Gary, essentially everything you stated is simply the opposite of the truth. That's actually amazing, almost impossible to do, and yet you've just done it, you expert! You are a total mess. Please re-evaluate your life.
Ghosting? In that pattern? No bleeping way.
I don't know why that's there, or who put it there, but that clear (and very symmetrical) spade pattern isn't "ghosting".
It's the inverted image of the lights next to the window in the background.
100000000000% correct.
That's the plausible deniability.
But there is 0% chance this was done in-camera.
It was quite obviously added in post.
There are indeed (non-trivial) ways to analyze photos to determine if they are edited, but regardless of how it's created, a jpg, or most all published image files, will be flattened (i.e. all layers become one single layer).
No, I’m not new to photography.
Now show me a perfect shape of identical ghost artifacts, Gaslight Gary.
First, from anywhere. In all of photography, ever.
And then from an indoor shot, with a presumably wide-open aperture using a likely fixed focal length lens.
Who are you trying to bullshit here? And why?
Personally, I don't care about the logistics of it, it's pretty insane that it created such a ghost image either way. Sometimes cool stuff happens.
1 & 3. Mere light fixtures are nowhere near as bright as the sun, and it's very bright lighting that causes ghosting artifacts. These are indoor light fixtures, man. Nobody averts their gaze from a damn light fixture. These aren't bright, directional strobes, either.
Nothing you provided me, and you had ALL OF THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY to choose from, depicted anything even remotely like a detailed identifiable shape, and especially a detailed pattern of uniform white dots. And then, to have these precisely uniform white dots forming an spade coming out of the President's sleeve, and nowhere else? C'mon, Gaslight Gary, give it up. You're talking complete retard shit. Again, why?
Where'd I say "wide angle lens"? Nowhere. You're now making shit up. Terrible stuff, Gary.
Not only did you not take the opportunity to find even one image, anywhere, ever, that displayed ghosting artifacts anything even remotely like what this image shows, but now your complete ignorance really comes shining through, and you just spew blatant counterfactuals. Just read this one, little article, and please learn what you're talking about before you totally embarrass yourself anywhere else ( https://photographylife.com/what-is-ghosting-and-flare ) It's clear, and indisputable, that "The (lens flare, and ghosting) effect is greatly amplified when the lens is stopped down to its minimum aperture". So you're not just wrong, you're the complete opposite of right. Embarrassing, and very weird.
Fixed focal length are not irrelevant. Zoom lenses have far more optical elements, and thus can result far more ghosting artifacts. And I quote: "Aside from the visible veiling flare visible in the images, you can also see various circular artifacts/orbs in each image – those are referred to as “ghosts”. The total number of these ghosts varies by how many elements there are within each lens. Typically, the more elements, the more ghosts will appear in images."
Gaslight Gary, essentially everything you stated is simply the opposite of the truth. That's actually amazing, almost impossible to do, and yet you've just done it, you expert! You are a total mess. Please re-evaluate your life.