when i saw it I thought it was a cg figure pasted on the background of a real photo. that chair really gets me. the background looks great though once i was convinced that background was cg i see some of the texture "distress" has scaling issues. I am 65 and that is exactly how smooth my groin is! ;)

In photoshop I did a modification to remove the spotlight effect and even out lighting (old photo-offset techniques of layering inverted images to "fill flash" and some levels adjustment) inorder to see how the image looked. There was a lot of artificial grain apparent but still the results of the experiment are interesting.