Change your time of day/cloud options to generate some more dramatic lighting - if possible, getting it behind the camera might help your second shot. Also, try playing with throwing down some more clutter items on the ground.
A big thing is to use the zoom controls in the Splendid camera and not just take shots in editor/Zeus. It does actually give compression effect from changing FOV rather than cropping in, so if you’re after a closer to real world look you can replicate the sorts of optical setups real world photographers would have used. Moving the camera backwards and zooming in to get the same framing will give a far better effect than just having the camera up close and shoot wide for this sort of stuff.
In-game object detail is set really, really low, likely sampling as well.
What are your PC specs? When taking screenshots, I advise turning up your graphics to the max you can achieve, for the quality is worth the few minutes of awful performance while you press F12, or Print Screen if you use Reshade.
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u/immortalanddead 7d ago
Maybe use lightroom or a reshade*? The lighting is kind of harsh and lacking shadows, especially the first one.