It's all real and untouched. It was late afternoon, with the sun streaming in through a window onto my brand new chess set. It looked reasonably cool in real life, but my camera tended to ignore any shapes not directly under the light ... in this case, I'm not complaining!
Remember, the Queen goes on its own color: The black queen on the black square, and the white queen on the white square. Of course, I'm assuming the foggier glass pieces on the top of the picture are black.
That G2 pawn looks a little anxious to get into battle. :P
Very good and original shot,though I must say the chess pieces helped a lot towards creating the picture in that they are transperent. Anyway nice work.