Real or Rendered, '/

Czar

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
28,510
0
0
I'm curios, why do people think its real and not rendered... what sets it apart?
 
Jan 31, 2002
40,819
2
0
Originally posted by: Czar
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Czar
I'm curios, why do people think its real and not rendered... what sets it apart?

You can see the camera in the reflection? :p

- M4H

heheh... you can? :p

Just theorizing. At that resolution/compression, I don't know if I'm looking at a jumble of JPEG artifacts or a macro lens.

- M4H
 

Czar

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
28,510
0
0
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Czar
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Czar
I'm curios, why do people think its real and not rendered... what sets it apart?

You can see the camera in the reflection? :p

- M4H

heheh... you can? :p

Just theorizing. At that resolution/compression, I don't know if I'm looking at a jumble of JPEG artifacts or a macro lens.

- M4H

well true, if everything I posted were at huge resolutions you could easily tell real photographs from 3d renders ... most things anyway
 

glugglug

Diamond Member
Jun 9, 2002
5,340
1
81
too simplistic/out of focus to tell. No real giveaways that scream its rendered, but not much detail to make a rendering difficult either.
 

knyghtbyte

Senior member
Oct 20, 2004
918
1
0
rendered

i could possibly be wrong but the drops just dont seem to follow the rules of gravity in the picture, check the one nearest the branching point, it looks a little too sharp an angle compared to the others....

also the background seems a little too incoherent, im sure a branch like that would have other foliage nearby it, close enough so that even tho out of focus would still be more obvious that its there, rather than just that fairly uniform blurred background.....
again i could be wrong on these counts, but figured i'd give a reason for my choice....lol
 

Czar

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
28,510
0
0
Originally posted by: knyghtbyte
rendered

i could possibly be wrong but the drops just dont seem to follow the rules of gravity in the picture, check the one nearest the branching point, it looks a little too sharp an angle compared to the others....

also the background seems a little too incoherent, im sure a branch like that would have other foliage nearby it, close enough so that even tho out of focus would still be more obvious that its there, rather than just that fairly uniform blurred background.....
again i could be wrong on these counts, but figured i'd give a reason for my choice....lol

nice reasoning :)
but then again, as a photograph it could have been set up in a studio, the photographer wanted to focus on the droplets and therefore found an angle that focused on them
as a render, it could have been that the artist was just lazy for doing anything more, could have been a studdy on doing realistic looking textures for trees, or something else

sometimes its just hard to tell

 
Jan 18, 2001
14,465
1
0
I say rendered b/c the field of focus doesn't seem to be consistently applied. The drops are in focus and the left branch quickly blurs out, but on the other side of the main stem the right branch is not nearly as out of focus as I think it should be.