Re: Is this a real picture or CGI?

On May 7, 5:51 pm, Doc <docsavag...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Looks to me either like CGI or extremely enhanced by CGI.

Seems like good guesses.

> Seems to
> have a sort of "plasic" patina to it. Is an actual photo of a pristine
> new car not good enough anymore?

No, and it never has been.  Photo manipulation is as old as
photography itself, both post and pre-production.  Nature of the
beast, I'm afraid.

Usually, I think, the goal is to express what the shooter feels as
much as sees.  "Reality" often falls a tad short of doing that.

AAR, chances are good the basis of the image was directly related to
the cost of production.  Scan a artist rendering; CGI it = no location
or studio shoot.

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- gpsman