A summary of the analysis

1. The most visible things that anyone can see:

On most photos, Green Helmet's pants are dark blue and the shirt black. Here, the pants look like jeans and the shirt seems dasrk blue. Besides we see someone's knee on ther picture in some faded pink uniform. However, other photos show that Red Cross workers use uniforms with a saturated "red-orange" tone.

The stripe over the pants looks blueish and faded, while other photos show it bright white. Meanhwile, the jacket has saturated colors.

The stripe at the right leg, seems larger than the left one, which is closer to the camera.

The hand seen at foreground seems to have four fingers only. Under the missing finger one seems to see a large white feature at Green Helmet's leg.

The fingers of the hand seem blurred not because of movement, but looking like covered by a plastic bag, as the blur goes around the border of the hand and not in one direction.

Near Green Helmet's left shoe, the pants look like if they were transparent. A bit of the shoe and a half of a rock seem to be visible through them.

Green Helmet, himself, nearly doesn't cast shadows. There are two clear sources for light (and a possible third). If one looks at the arm of the boy behind Green Helmet, one sees a shadow growing from two directions, one from nearly the camera, the other from other source at its left. But one Green Helmet if is hard to find any good shadows.

Green Helmet looks younger and more shaved than in other photos.

2. Less visible things

If one compares this photo with other, supposedly taken before this one, one sees a similar hand at the foreground. However, that hand is clearly tanned. Here, the skin looks pale.

Green Helmet's face seems to be slightly tanned on many photos. The skin is slightly rugged and the beard is sharp (the last can be seen even on lower resolutions). Here the face is rosy, relatively smooth and the beard seems softer.

At the blurred hand, colors seem to change in contrastable patches from the hand to the arm.

The hand's palm, doesn't seem blurred.

The arm carries a reddish tone from the jacket.

All around the blurred hand's wrist, things carry a very "Van Goghish" look. This can not be a product of JPEG's work as distortions are not linear.

Things seen on processing

Fingers and the right side of the blurred hand are heavily pixelized at enhancement which suggests retouch.

Some sections of Green Helmet's faced are also heavily pixelized.

Ring finger seems slightly "bitten" at its lower section.

At Red Channel, all fingers seem to be visible in full form. However it seems that there is in fact a cause for blurring, caused by the simultaneous movement of Green Helmet's leg and the hand. Meanwhile, this does not explain a large deformation seen at index finger, the pixelization and the sudden disappearence of little finger.

Some enhancing tools suggest that the pants, near the palm of blurred hand, were heavily sharpened or they could be a patch from somewhere else.

A little bit far from the borders one can see blicks of orange (jacket, Green Helmet's cheek, the radio's antenna). Near the jacket, the pants show patches of violet. Most of the jacket shows a very sharp border whith all the rest of the picture. This border seems the have an equal width from the right side of Green Helmet's face and down to the radio.

Things in question

Green Helmt's face seems redrawn or heavily retouched. At certain processings of the image, the face looks much more like the picture from a comic book. However the boy at background, keeps showing a photographic effect, where shades of gray correspond to an iluminated object. One can even trace the source of illumination. However, on Green Helmet one sees only color patches.

The tip of Green Helmet's nose seems to have got its bit of "plastic operation".

The right side of Green Helmet's glasses seem to blick. Some processings suggest a lense much more of the "Top Gun" kind than Green Helmet's trademark elliptic lenses.

Also here, the upper armature seems missing right out of the face of Green Helmet. One sees only a prolongation of the lenses colors over the face "creating" the armature. However, near the eye, one sees a nearly invisible patch of brown, much of the same kind as the glasses armature. This patch is barely a product of JPEG as it is sharp enough. And also it is not a product of the boys jacket which goes much more for black.

The baby's hand seems to be in the background of the pants. However, Green and Red Channels show it more at the foreground. This is also hardly a sole product of JPEG.