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But some of the errors you can see without having any qualification other than a pair of eyes. There really isn’t a second shoulder on little Scott. The highlights in the eyes really don’t line up.

I do see your point, though. It’s almost like the people who did these photo “forgeries” were thumbing their nose at those of us not enthralled by the One. It’s as if they were sending a message - we can pull this off because there’s no established forensic field of expertise for evaluation of digital images - and we want you to become very frustrated knowing they are faked while at the same time not being able to absolutely prove it.

But some of the errors you can see without having any qualification other than a pair of eyes. There really isn’t a second shoulder on little Scott. The highlights in the eyes really don’t line up.

The shoulder is pitched down because the boy's other shoulder and arm behind Barry are pitched up. The highlights in the eyes depend on sources of lights and their relative positions. If you have two people standing side by side and at different heights and with their heads held in slightly different orientations, and there are sources of light from different directions, the different positions of the people relative to the light sources can result in different highlights in the eyes. That is, there may be some highlights that are common to both sets of eyes and others that are not or that are of different intensities. When I'm doing portraits I pay a lot of attention to highlights because they make the difference between someone looking alive or lifeless. I'll see if I can find one that illustrates this and post it.

But some of the errors you can see without having any qualification other than a pair of eyes. There really isn’t a second shoulder on little Scott. The highlights in the eyes really don’t line up.

This is a much better version of the photo without pixellation artifacts introduced by enlarging a photo. There's nothing weird or unusual about this photo, the shadows, or the orientation of the boys' bodies.